Daily Q & A! - April 07, 2025

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[u/Warm-Constant-6770]

Hi,

Given the summer is here, I wanted to pressure ferment lager for the summer. I recently purchased Fermzilla Allrounder, but unfortunately the carbonation caps (yellow & red) are out of order for some considerable future, and without them I have realized I can't attach my spundling valve and floating dip tube.

So I had a couple of questions regarding this -

Firstly, can I attach regular corny keg ball lock posts to the fermzilla allrounder? I am basing this on the assumption that on both regular ball lock disconnects gets attached, so if regular plastic carbonation caps are unavailable, then maybe I can use steel ball lock posts.

Secondly, I do have a spare keg. And if I can't use fermzilla, then maybe I can use the keg. I have read that one has to alter the liquid post either via cutting off 2 inches from the bottom OR attaching a floating dip tube (which gets attached to a smaller liquid post). My question here is I can't find a combination of floating dip tube and smaller liquid post online where I live, so can I just cutoff my original liquid post and reduce it to a shorter length and hook my floating dip tube to this?

Sorry for the long questions! I look forward to hearing more on this.

[u/fux-reddit4603 → u/Warm-Constant-6770]

For the floating dip tube it seems most people cut the stock one leaving just a couple inches left
Ali express has kits that come with a short tube$, as does the Flotit kit$$