submitter: Scientists

You spelled magazine staff photographer wrong.

Link (pops) to the actual story about it, not just the pretty pictures

I submitted this with a better headline, but I an now too busy building one of those to biatch too much about it!

WANT

"..and ensures that the final product is a frosty brew."

You're doing it wrong.

beer causes cancer?

This article is made of win.

Ah, the perfect gift... I can see the infomercials now...

My beer-making machine is in Escondido, CA.



And they never run out.

Beer doesn't cause cancer... scientists are supposed to be finding the cure for cancer... instead they make an all-in-one beer brewer... hence the "screw the cancer"...

Wow.. only $4300, what a bunch of crap...err I mean what a great deal. Of course, I could just make my mine own system for a few hundred bux, but this one was made my "scientists". Pfft.

black_knight: This article is made of win.

More like "Epic farking win".

/BEER!

i wonder if the cooling system could be used to store frosted mugs.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - You know who

I wonder how much this set-up would cost. Anyone have any ideas?

For extract beer? What a waste of time and money. All grain brewing takes work, but extract brewing is not much more than boiling water.

ye olde shiza: I wonder how much this set-up would cost. Anyone have any ideas?

I'm just gonna take a wild guess at $4,315 dollars

If I had $4,300 to piss away (pun intended), I'd buy one in a second because I am sure I can spend that much on beer in a year or two no problem. To make my own and find a mixture and a flavor that suits me perfect would be well worth it. Once you transfer the last batch to the serving keg you can fire up the next to be ready when the first one's gone.

Missing in action.

mobombhead: For extract beer? What a waste of time and money. All grain brewing takes work, but extract brewing is not much more than boiling water.

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\No tun, no fun.

Psh. I could build a similar setup in my parents' basement (currently living in a 200sq foot shoebox) for less than half that.
/doesn't have to
//meader FTW

Where does it say where the price is? I see pictures and a brief description, no article.

Subby: Scientists invent all-in-one beer making machine. Screw the cancer

We'll drink it away!!

/getting started in 20 minutes

does it have weed in it?

Difficulty: Must not taste like piss.

Fail.

I suggested something like this on Fark a while back, except putting the whole mechanism into the body of a washing machine.

There are several improvements that can be made to the basic system, such as including a city water followed by filtered water cleaning cycle, and a bottler so that it would not be limited to draft. The same cooling system would both be part of the process and used to chill the final product. Brewing gases and hot air from the refrigeration system could be vented through a hose much like a clothes dryer.

Of course you would use house current instead of propane. The body of the washer would have three 25 gallon tanks side by side.

The bottler would be on the side of the device and is pretty simple. First you insert a cap into the capper, then you fill the bottle with beer, then put a measured amount of sugar in it to give it a little more fermentation, so that it will foam when opened. Then move it under the capper and cap it. Let it sit in a cool dark place for a bit, then refrigerate.

What you will get is a simple system. Add purified water, along with yeast and flavoring syrup. Turn on the machine and let it do its thing. After it is done and you have taken out the beer, plug it in to a faucet for the city water cleaning cycle with a mild unflavored detergent. Then rinse with purified water.

Legally, a residence can produce 100 gallons a year for a person, or 200 gallons a year for more than one person. However, nobody is counting.

And, of course, the ideal place to hook up such a machine is where a washing machine/dryer used to go.

Cancer? What cancer? Oh, yeah, headline cliche cancer. You see that's what is ruining this country. Cancer or beer. This country is great enough that we can have both!

Beer Time!

Shoot. All the equipment I make beer with cost a total of $15.

The best thing is I buy Dad's Root Beer in 1 Liter brown PET bottles, drink the root beer then I have beautiful bottles for home-brewed beer. You drop 'em, so what? They explode? Yeah, it could kill you but not like flying glass shards from glass bottles.

Wheeeeeeeeee

Cosmic Crab: "..and ensures that the final product is a frosty brew."

You're doing it wrong.

Ale?

How about this thing for making beer? You can pretend you're Chekov.

The Wessel

tshetter

Well done there... that there is one of my new favorites: Stoudt's double IPA is a fantastic hoppy beer with a unnoticeably high ABV %. It sneaks up on ya.

Bum_Fu

I can't fight cancer, so I'll fight someone who has cancer!!


Fight'n 'Round the world.

I'm drinking beer right now, so I'm getting a belch out of these replies.

Must hurry to the garage and get one.

As to the machine, what about the trub, etc?

/No time to RTFA, gotta get an IPA!

socoloco: mobombhead: For extract beer? What a waste of time and money. All grain brewing takes work, but extract brewing is not much more than boiling water.

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\No tun, no fun.


QFT. All-grain brewing doesn't just take work, it takes a basic knowledge of actual brewing to get a reasonable product.

Knowledge, such as:

>Make sure you have enough base malt to provide the diastatic power needed to break down the starches
>Make sure your mill grind isn't too fine (stuck lauter) or too course (not enough extract)
>Efficient sparging: not too much (watered down and astringent), and not too little (extract left in the spent grain)
>Recipe formulation (extract brewing removes alot of that)
>Beta-glucan content (too much oats or rye in your recipe and BOOM! stuck lauter)
>Proper mashing regimes (protein rests, saccharafication rests, Beta-glucan rests, temp. sensitive amylases, etc).

So you see, extract brewing SUCKS, and anyone who would spend this much on an extract system is a retard. Spend the same amount of money on a morebeer.com brewing sculpture.

/loves me some brewing chemistry

Yagottabechittinme
If I had $4,300 to piss away (pun intended),

None taken.

Embden.Meyerhof: >Make sure you have enough base malt to provide the diastatic power needed to break down the starches
>Make sure your mill grind isn't too fine (stuck lauter) or too course (not enough extract)
>Efficient sparging: not too much (watered down and astringent), and not too little (extract left in the spent grain)
>Recipe formulation (extract brewing removes alot of that)
>Beta-glucan content (too much oats or rye in your recipe and BOOM! stuck lauter)
>Proper mashing regimes (protein rests, saccharafication rests, Beta-glucan rests, temp. sensitive amylases, etc).

Yeah, but once you dial this stuff in...ooh baby!

meh.

MoreBeer has sold these for ages.

...don't need this new-fangled crap. A bucket/lid/airlock/capper/bottles will do.

/retro-grouch
//bottled my 6th batch tonight
///saved $4250...woo hoo!

Bum_Fu

tshetter

Well done there... that there is one of my new favorites: Stoudt's double IPA is a fantastic hoppy beer with a unnoticeably high ABV %. It sneaks up on ya.




Great as well but expensive.

yaddablah: ...don't need this new-fangled crap. A bucket/lid/airlock/capper/bottles will do.


Bah! You don't need all that fancy technology. A bottle, some corn meal solution, and some saliva will do!

/Bolivian retro-grouch.

Embden.Meyerhof: yaddablah: ...don't need this new-fangled crap. A bucket/lid/airlock/capper/bottles will do.


Bah! You don't need all that fancy technology. A bottle, some corn meal solution, and some saliva will do!

/Bolivian retro-grouch.

In my day there was only one kind of condom. You took a rabbit skin and wrapped around your privates and tied it off with a bungee cord and you couldn't feel nothing! And that's the way we liked it!

/Angry old man by Dana Carvey

They had one of these in the Waterworld film, but it only made American beer.

My first batch of (all-extract) homebrew just hit 2 weeks in the bottle. It's not great, but it's definitely drinkable. I'm in the middle of working out a good extract/specialty grain recipe for batch #2. I work at the front desk of a resort with a restaurant attached, so I got to borrow the brewpot and steal a food-grade plastic bucket for a fermenter. I think the most expensive thing I bought, equipment-wise, was the bottle capper, for less than $15.

http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html is a great intro to homebrewing.

junky: meh.
MoreBeer has sold these for ages.

2nd. Scientists didn't "invent" anything, all they did was strap some sealed containers onto a HERMS rig. You could make the same thing for $600 or so if you knew what you were doing.

Coleslaw: My beer-making machine is in Escondido, CA.



And they never run out.

That stuff will put some hair on your chest.... or possibly take it off, if you spill it on your shirt.

/Skull Splitter
//Hobgoblin Ale

Bonus: mine collapses down for easy storage or transportation. Also, the fermenters and serving vessels are farking attached to the god damn kettle.

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FDB: 1

How about these thingies?

wowzer97pooh: How about these thingies?

Too expensive for me; my main fermenter is a 15 gal plastic bucket.

I also have a 5gal carboy that my great grandfather used to make wine over 80 years ago. It's in my blood!

Number41: My first batch of (all-extract) homebrew just hit 2 weeks in the bottle. It's not great, but it's definitely drinkable. I'm in the middle of working out a good extract/specialty grain recipe for batch #2. I work at the front desk of a resort with a restaurant attached, so I got to borrow the brewpot and steal a food-grade plastic bucket for a fermenter. I think the most expensive thing I bought, equipment-wise, was the bottle capper, for less than $15.

http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html is a great intro to homebrewing.

I just drank my last bottle of an American Pale Ale. I went too conservative on the priming sugar and ended up with a nice bitter ale. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I brew cheap too. All the equipment was 15 bucks. And stores very easily.

Franklin Delanor Bluth: wowzer97pooh: How about these thingies?

Too expensive for me; my main fermenter is a 15 gal plastic bucket.

I also have a 5gal carboy that my great grandfather used to make wine over 80 years ago. It's in my blood!

My grandfather made his own wine and grappa so I know what you mean!