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Offline Stevie

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First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« on: November 16, 2014, 02:01:03 pm »
Meet the Brewie. Another Homebrew appliance. Maybe as more players get in the game, the prices will come way down.

http://www.brewie.org/

narvin

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Re: First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 02:46:01 pm »
Or, they'll all go out of business. I can't imagine that the equipment is cheap for a unit like this, and with a limited market of what I'd call "Rich dudes who wants toys", the customer base isn't growing.

Offline AmandaK

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Re: First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2014, 02:52:22 pm »
"Quality beer for EVERYONE" is probably a stretch. ;)
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Offline niels

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Re: First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2014, 03:29:57 pm »
"WHEN YOU RECEIVED YOUR BREWIE PADS - WHICH CONTAINS THE MALT AND THE HOPS - PLACE THEM INTO THE MACHINE"

Looks like a beerpresso machine to me. Will you be able to use "loose" ingredients?

- Niels

Offline Stevie

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Re: First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2014, 04:13:47 pm »

"WHEN YOU RECEIVED YOUR BREWIE PADS - WHICH CONTAINS THE MALT AND THE HOPS - PLACE THEM INTO THE MACHINE"

Looks like a beerpresso machine to me. Will you be able to use "loose" ingredients?

- Niels
I was trying to figure that out too. I saw in an article that people can use software to put together a recipe and send the instructions to an RFID card. Their site is not very friendly.

Offline jeffy

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Re: First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2014, 04:36:18 pm »

"WHEN YOU RECEIVED YOUR BREWIE PADS - WHICH CONTAINS THE MALT AND THE HOPS - PLACE THEM INTO THE MACHINE"

Looks like a beerpresso machine to me. Will you be able to use "loose" ingredients?

- Niels
I was trying to figure that out too. I saw in an article that people can use software to put together a recipe and send the instructions to an RFID card. Their site is not very friendly.
Yeah, kind of hard to find the info you want.
It looks like something you'd find in Skymall.
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Offline WDE97

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Re: First came the brewbot, followed by the picobrew, and now...
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2014, 12:07:36 pm »
Gotta love this, directly from the website: 

"How It Works: First thing you need to do is put Brewie in your shopping cart and wait"

Seriously?  ;D
Robert H.

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