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[DaveB]

Mrs BeA has veto'ed that idea.

MrsB has made a similar decision

[bless 'em all]

Why don't you order one anyway and just store it at my place. She'll never know.

Or you buy one and I'll come round and help you drink the beer?

[CheeseSlice]

Grain, Hops and Water go in. Beer comes out.

Not so fast..... Water treatment, Irish Moss, Yeast?

The video makes this sound far easier than it really is. You can't actually drink what comes out the other end straight away.

This basically automates the mashing process, 'simulates' a boil with the hops, and pumping liquids around until you've got wort in the fermenter. There is still a lot to do after that which it doesn't do such as chill the wort, re-hydrate and add the yeast, control and monitor the fermentation, dropping into a fresh keg, and in this case you need to own a kegregator with all of the CO2 regulators, gas cylinder and tap to dispense. All of which need to be aggressively sterilised between uses.

To be fair the mash is a pain in the ass and something like this would be useful, as the temperature needs to be spot on and you need to hold it there for over an hour. Its one of those things where you need to calculate your starting water temperature required to mix with so many grammes of grain at room temperature to hit the sweet spot.

pah!.. automated brewery my arse.

[DaveB]

Not so fast..... Water treatment, Irish Moss, Yeast?

The video makes this sound far easier than it really is. You can't actually drink what comes out the other end straight away.

This basically automates the mashing process, 'simulates' a boil with the hops, and pumping liquids around until you've got wort in the fermenter. There is still a lot to do after that which it doesn't do such as chill the wort, re-hydrate and add the yeast, control and monitor the fermentation, dropping into a fresh keg, and in this case you need to own a kegregator with all of the CO2 regulators, gas cylinder and tap to dispense. All of which need to be aggressively sterilised between uses.

To be fair the mash is a pain in the ass and something like this would be useful, as the temperature needs to be spot on and you need to hold it there for over an hour. Its one of those things where you need to calculate your starting water temperature required to mix with so many grammes of grain at room temperature to hit the sweet spot.

pah!.. automated brewery my arse.

Well yes, but "Grain, hops and water go in, then it automates the mash process but you still have to chill, add yeast, ferment, filter, move to a keg and sort out pouring it" doesn't have quite the same ring to it

[CheeseSlice]

Well yes, but "Grain, hops and water go in, then it automates the mash process but you still have to chill, add yeast, ferment, filter, move to a keg and sort out pouring it" doesn't have quite the same ring to it

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