Smartphone-Powered Craft Beer Microbrewery
The Brewbot is a smart appliance thats far more interesting than Samsungs connected refrigerators and washers, since it produces delicious beer. Its also designed to look good, take up a minimum of space and eliminate as much possibility of error as it can to make home brewing easy.
Cargos motivation for building Brewbot stems from the teams own passion for home brewing, which has become something of an international phenomenon. They noticed in pursuing their own hobby that setup was extremely complicated, and that there was a low degree of repeatability involved in other words, it was very hard to brew the same beer twice, which, while adventurous, is hardly helpful if you want to turn your hobby into a business. Plus, typical brewing apparatus (good ones anyway) are huge.
Brewbot gets around these limitations for home beer enthusiasts by building a relatively svelte design that tucks away all the necessary machinery, vats and tanks into a package thats about the size of a standard Ikea freestanding wardrobe. They then used Arduino-based controls and a load of sensors to make sure that Brewbot can easily follow recipes downloaded from the Internet to the letter, ensuring perfect repeatability every time with little or no manual intervention required.
1,650 Euros (incl shipping), is about $2,200 US.
I gracefully agree to be the official NTers guinea pig; I will be accepting donations to purchase one so that I may better serve my fellow bloggers here on NTers with a first-hand accounting of this contraption!
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Go to the link to watch the video...quite interesting (imho)!
"The Brewbot is a smart appliance."
Now your beer-making appliance can spy on you, too, like the rest of your new appliances and tvs!!
" They then used Arduino-based controls and a load of sensors to make sure that Brewbot can easily follow recipes downloaded from the Internet to the letter, ensuring perfect repeatability every time with little or no manual intervention required."
And that's how they do it!
Yup!
I can tell ya from my own experience that it isn't easy to have consistency. Now you can buy a kit with all the needed ingredients (hops, barley, yeast...) but they tend to be rather generic and taste that way as well. If you go with your own ingredients, it's easy to make the batches slightly different without meaning to. This appliance on the other hand can take recipees from world-class brewers and make them to near exact specs, and reproduce the same results time after time.
So Chloe are you in for donating to the beer-bot cuase? You may send all donations to www.bylarryabeerbot.com .
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Whateva!
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If you drink a beer first, it will all become clear BF...
A more detailed description can be found at the Kickstarter site .
So have you heard from Micky lately?
Sounds like a great invention. There's a seasonal beer made in the Seattle area around this time of year [Halloween/Oct.] - Pumpkin beer... popular, it seems, and now consumers could try to make their own, as well as other special concoctions.
'Seriously' thinking about donating to your fund!
That poor fuckin' mouse is goingstarve!
After that kinda diet, ya may wanna keep him locked up.
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engineers should be applauded to making beer easier to make.