Green Iguana
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I went to the new U-Brew_it store on the Gold Coast today. It's a franchise of the u-brew-it chain that has stores is brisbane and Perth I think. Basically you go in and chose the style of beer you want, they provide you with the ingredients which consist of malt extract and specialty grains, hop pellets and yeast. So in essence what we are talking about is an all extract brew (some have crushed specialty grains) with 3 hop pellet additions(bittering,flavour + aroma). They use Marui dry yeast, apparantly seperate lager and ale strains. The equipment is impresive, all stainless and shiny. They use large SS gas fired kettles, pumps for transfer, a heat exchanger, two fermentations rooms (one at 18C for the primary(14 days) and one at approx. 2C for the secondary(about 5-7 days I think), 0.5 micron filters and forced carbonation. You can bottle or have the beer put in a keg. The price varied from $120-$140 for 6 cartoons (about 50 L).
Seems a bit expensive for extract brewing, however they are using fresh hops and u get access to all the shiny professional brewing equipment + controlled temp fermentation. I think that getting filtered and carbonated beer at the end would be a big attraction for most home brewers. It not all grain but is a vast improvement on the avereage can brew. Fr the average brewer, the convenience and resuls are worth the cost IMHO.....I'lll be sticking to the AG homebrew myself.... :beerbang:
p.s hve no affiliation with the franchise
Cheers
Seems a bit expensive for extract brewing, however they are using fresh hops and u get access to all the shiny professional brewing equipment + controlled temp fermentation. I think that getting filtered and carbonated beer at the end would be a big attraction for most home brewers. It not all grain but is a vast improvement on the avereage can brew. Fr the average brewer, the convenience and resuls are worth the cost IMHO.....I'lll be sticking to the AG homebrew myself.... :beerbang:
p.s hve no affiliation with the franchise
Cheers