m'eh, I'm holding out for the "all-in-one" that will also clean itself. As any home-brewer knows, cleaning/sanitization is the most difficult and time-consuming of the whole beer-making process.

Aside from waiting for fermentation to complete of course.

travis

@max_k: Not propane. Acetylene. Combustion of acetylene with oxygen produces a flame of over 3300 °C (6000 °F), releasing 11.8 kJ/g. Oxyacetylene is the hottest burning common fuel gas. (Thanks, wikipedia). Propane only burns at 2385 °C max. Pure Acetylene wouldn't get quite as hot when mixed with plain air, and he didn't mention an oxygen tank.

So, they can probably have a much smaller burner closer to the kettle than propane. They also might box that thing up with panels to keep the hot side hot and the cold side cold.

Elvisisdead

I think I could get into brewing my own. It would probably be a "smart beer", with ginseng and ginkgo and guarana...but not with the weird berry flavor of a certain other brew. Maybe a nice hearty ale.

deusdiabolus

I really like the temperature controlled fermenter. Too bad its just extract. I like my old school, gravity fed, cinder block elevated, human power lifted, all grain system. And it comes to about 50¢ a bottle when it's all done. And that's usually 6% ABV oatmeal stouts, 9% belgian blonds, and a lot of hefes.

djtripp

Now if they could only refine it so there's a urinal on one end and it extracts the heat from your urine for a biobladder friendly unit.

Wyenot

While a cool idea and neat to look at, this machine will make FAR from ultimate beer, unfortunately. My cousins and I own a small microbrewery as a fun side project, and spent several years developing the "ultimate" home brewing system with which to test the recipes. I saw this system in a magazine a few weeks ago and heres what makes it far from ultimate:

1. Ths system is not "All-Grain" and makes beer from Malt Extract GOOP you have to buy. This severely limits the quality of the end product, and the flexibility.

2. Severly limited capacity. You can only produce 10 gallons of beer (2/3 keg) with this system every 1-3 weeks, and will ALSO have to wait 1-3 weeks after your last beer to be able to drink the next. This time is depending on the style of beer, ASSUMING you keep the fermentation vessels at the perfect temperature for the entire time. With most systems, the fermentation is done seperately, so you can brew multiple batches etc. With this one, you have to wait til you are DONE DRINKING the entire batch before you can make the next, then wait another 1-3 weeks to be able to drink that one!

3. The price. For the same amount, one can purchase far superior brewing equipment that will make you a lot more and better beer, even fancy computer-controlled systems.

Overall, a cool idea and fun to look at, but uses inferior malt extract for brewing (bad tasting) and has some practical limitations on capacity (will be thirsty while admiring it)

islandhopper

Just go down to Big W and buy a homebrew kit for about AUS$50. You get all those "Teach your kid how to be an alcoholic scientist" benefits (nothing funnier than a drunk scientist with a beer in one hand and a bunsen burner in the other), plus, you get fresh beer of your own chosen "flavour" which, like Bintang in Bali, tastes a lot nicer than it really is when you're paying cents per bottle and drinking several before 10am.

[hic!]

montsnmags

"Semi"-goddess?
Lies!

Mondoz

@Pixlmonkey: According to a friend of mine who makes his own beer, it costs about 25 cents a bottle to make yourself. Don't know about this machine specifically though

the_sidewinder

Oh man I missed Brazil the Homebrew beer that my grany used to make was awsome.

Jeremias

holy shnikies, just how expensive is this brew per bottle, considering all the electricity?

Pixlmonkey

@KazamaSmokers: i agree some fot he best beer in the world is aged , IPAs being my favorite but sometimes I just like a nice fresh tasteless miller :)

erockO

You know... the phrase "good fresh beer" can never be over-rated.

KazamaSmokers

It's a beautiful rig, and I love me some home brew, but this is (still) not the world's first all on one anything. It doesn't even mash!

Go google RIMS.. them's some all in one brewing systems. This is a propane burner stuck pointlessly close to the fermenter.

It is very pretty, though.

max_k

As Barney said when he one the lifetime supply of Duff, "Just hook it to my veins!"

Vagabum

OMG, US$4315?!?!?!

You can put together a pretty decent and much more flexible setup for a lot less. Years, ago, in a previous lifetime, I'd do an all-grain mash using a cheap enamel pot, my apartment gas stove, a couple of plastic buckets, some copper tubing w/hose fittings (for quick-cooling of the wort), and a couple of 7-gallon glass carboys. Throw in some food-grade plastic tubing, some pinch valves, a bottle filler, a bottle capper, and some bottle caps, and the whole setup cost a whole lot less.

Of course, the airlocks would sometimes launch themselves, and try to go orbital, but they'd only end up decorating the ceiling .... Fun times.

aj_robins