CES is full of
kitchen gadgets from the mundane to the bizarre, but when we were
presented with the world's first fully automatic all-grain beer brewing appliance, we
were intrigued, and maybe just a little thirsty.
The PicoBrew Zymatic is ideal for those who've ever considered
brewing their own craft beer. At the push of a button you can turn
grains and water into 2.5 gallons of beer. The appliance is Wi-Fi
enabled and connects to the cloud allowing the machine to be
directly instructed from recipes in the cloud, and also allowing
home brewers to check up on the progress of their precious bubbling
liquid.
It takes around 3.5-4 hours to brew an unfermented beer on
average and gives you a significant level of control over the
brewing process so that you can tweak it and finetune it to create
the perfect beer. As well as having access to the recipe library
with over 100 recipes, it's also possible to provide the Zymatic
with your own custom recipes, perhaps based on beers you enjoy.
The system is based on Arduino and seems incredibly simple to
use. All it requires is for you to add the grains and hops to the
right compartments, hook up a keg of water and hit go. The second
half of the process involved adding the yeast and chilling the keg
while it ferments, but this is pretty much done in the normal
way.
The good news is that the Zymatic is self-cleaning and
dishwasher safe, so after brewing you can kick back -- possibly
with a beer -- without having to worry about cleaning up.
WIRED.co.uk was given a hoppy IPA made by the Zymatic to try at
CES and can vouch that it was delicious. According to PicoBrew, the
machine is being used by professional breweries to make test
batches of beer. They are confident that the Zymatic is accurate
enough to allow them to scale up to produce much bigger batches, a
PicoBrew spokesman explained to us.
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PicoBrew was a Kickstarter success story and as such it is
currently meeting all orders from backers of the campaign, but it
is available for pre-order now for $2,000 (£1323 including
international shipping) and should be available in March.
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Home brewing machine automates craft beer creation
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