I think I’m a bit of an outlier here, but my Zeal showed up last night and I gave her a few good rounds of testing. So far I am not really impressed with its performance.
The machining on the Zeal head is fantastic though, and it looks and feels like an absolute premium product.
Compared to my titi clone (flare), the zeal is underperforming. For example, I run the flare at 450f and get face melting hoots, with coffe brown abv, just how I like it. For the Zeal I cranked it to 530f (and beyond) and still only getting straw coloured hits with not as much power behind them comparatively. 550 on the zeal gets me pretty close to where I like it but not really sure this one has a place in my collection. I’m quite surprised by this given everyone’s experiences here.