I read a post about the Braumeister and of course ambled over to their site which was a mistake cause I got a bad case of the Oh It's so shiny it's automated and so on.......

It's also vastly expensive, ignoring the automation for a moment what real advantages does it offer?

Ease of use?
Better Beer?
Obviously better bragging rights.
Indoor use?

My current Biab set up is a small one, but capable of easy and accurate temp control although the temps have to be set manually at each step so it's not automated yet (soon). The latest addition but not yet fitted is a stainless mesh liner for the bag, this will allow me to use a continuous stirrer to limit temp gradients and use a temp probe/pid controller.

So other than a bill for bits and the satisfaction of building something would I gain anything from a Braumeister?

ATB. Aamcle





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I do like to build stuff, before the worst of the fever had passed I'd worked out how to do the build and found a way to automate the system at a low cost with out having to get into hard core coding.

Still for now its Biab for me :-) but I'm going to be using pid for mash temp control and maybe a pwm device to tone down the boil.

Aamcle

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