Hands on Review: Pumpzilla Brewing Pump
This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Tom Brennan. Read more about Tom and grab a link to his website and YouTube channel below.
Hands on Review Pumpzilla Brewing Pump
One of the best investments I made years ago was adding a pump to my homebrew arsenal. Pumps move hot water to your mash tun and makes vorlaufing easy. They circulate wort to make chilling faster and it moves your brew into a fermentor. For me, it helped saved me from back aches the day after I brewed because I would have to lift a very heavy mash tun in my gravity setup.
Now there is a cost effective option, the Pumpzilla. It has some flaws, but they far outweigh the advantages from not having a pump.
Pumpzilla Specifications and Features
- Stainless Steel head
- Can be set on a flat surface by itself without tipping over
- Quiet Operation
- Center inlet design makes it easy to prime this pump as the head is easily flooded with wort
- Inlet and outlet fittings are 1/2 in. male NPT so they will work with any of your standard homebrew fittings
- Water resistant (not proof!) casing
- 5 ft. Cord
- On/Off Switch
- Max Flow – 5 Gal / 19L per minute
- Max Lift – 11 ft
- Heat Rating: 100C (212F)
- Voltage – 120v 60Hz
- Current – 0.75A
Hands on Review
After opening the Pumpzilla packaging the first thing I noticed was how well it was built. The pump itself was dense and felt really rugged. The stainless steel head is always a plus over some plastic headed pumps you see at the same price point. An additional feature was a rocker switch on the wiring. In the absence of that one would either have to physically plug and unplug a pump to turn it on and off or attach it to a power strip with an on/off switch. The rocker switch has a very small hash mark to indicate “on”.
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