.... everything from fill vessels, preboiling, cooling, moving strike, doughing in, step mashing, moving wort to the bk, boiling. Cooling and everything is done while I am away. Elements, flow sensors, pressure sensors, 3 pumps, 2 chillers, and 16 electric ball valves do all the work on brewday ...... this is what makes brewing fun for me.
If you're not home while you're homebrewing, is it homebrewing?
This is always what I run up against with the stuff like PicoBrew and the other fully automated systems.. the literal set it and forget it.. load your grain and hops the night before and set a timer like a coffee maker..
To
me that's not brewing... but hey.. to each their own.
I wouldn't mind an automated mashing system like a grainfather, and then the rest I still have to do on my own, but for now I don't have room for even that much.. oh well.. pot on the stove it is.