I ordered one for the March production run. It's a long story, but I bought
it as part of a software demo for marketing purposes. The basic idea is to
showcase my software platform as the pipeline for recipes and scheduling
brewing, automatically ordering ingredients, printing brew sheets, etc.
around the machine. It will serve as an example of how my software platform
can be used to manage the work in a manufacturing facility. That it also
let me get one of these machines while writing it off on taxes is just a
nice benefit. :)
As for the machine itself, they actually don't boil. Instead, they do a
208F recirculation for hop extraction. The water comes from an attached keg
and the final wort goes back into the keg for fermentation. It does 2.5
gallon batches and runs on a 15A 110V outlet.
Once mine shows up, I'd be happy to demo it for anyone who wants to see it.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Jeff Kalchik <jkalchik(a)hushmail.com> wrote:
A coworker found this, and wondered if I'd looked
at it:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708005089/picobrew-zymatic-the-automat…
Interesting little device. Looks pretty, but I'm not sure I can wrap my
tiny little brain around how it's gonna mash & boil in that arrangement.
Jeff
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