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Review on ๐Ÿบ Efficient Three-Piece Airlock and Drilled #6 Stopper Kit for Gallon Jug Fermentation - Perfect for Beer, Wine, and Kombucha Making by Josh Gerhardt

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Works fine with some care. No visible bubbles, difficult to tell if fermentation is complete.

Bought this gate for champagne yeast kombucha (solid kombucha). To the naked eye it looks like the gateway is doing nothing. But I shot a 15 minute video and sped up the video to play in 4 seconds. You can see the results in my video - this thing pumps like a piston and releases a lot of gas. I'm now really looking forward to tasting my butch when it's done fermenting (about a week longer). As another reviewer said, the cork can slip out of your bottle, especially when you first put it in. I noticed the cork was slowly coming out of the bottle so I took it off, cleaned the cork and the inside of the bottle neck, dried them completely and put them back in. About every 15 minutes I checked it and at first it came out but I kept plugging it in and eventually it just stayed. This can be a problem if pressure builds up inside, but hopefully the airlock will release the excess pressure before the plug is ejected. use clean filtered water). The swimmer slowly rises, deflates, and falls again. It's very difficult to see with the naked eye and easy to assume your yeast is dead or finished fermenting when it isn't. Unlike images of other gateways I've seen, this doesn't help you tell when your fermentation is complete. You have to calculate the time. It's plastic and brittle, eerie when you stick a sluice in a cork hole. You want it to be airtight, but you can't squeeze it too hard or it will break. Be careful. Dismantling for cleaning is good.

Pros
  • Acceptable
Cons
  • Minor