Do you consider this Home Brewing?

[GerritT]

LG have created a machine that makes beer. But is it Home Brewing?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/12/11/lg_craft_beer_brew/

 

[-Bezza-]

The best bit about that article is them calling CAMRA "beer botherers"

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi @GerritT
Looked at the poll choices but could not find the "Bollo**s" button

 

[MickDundee]

I said no because of the capsule element. It takes the “brewing” out of home brewing - this is just home fermenting.

Even in kit brewing there’s the physical mixing with the water, aerating and adding the yeast - and that’s without any kit pimping or dry hopping.

 

[MyQul]

I say yes because you're making beer at home. But with this machine you're barely doing anything. You may as well go an buy beer from a shop unless it works our hugely cheaper to use the LG machine

 

[jceg316]

I don't see the point?

 

[Linalmeemow]

I don't see the point?

Nope, me neither. I'd guess the machine and capsules will be expensive so you'd need to "brew" hundreds of times to make it worthwhile, and since it's essentially kit brewing the beer will likely be *****.

 

[Pavros]

If fermenting can be considered to be brewing then, unfortunately, yes, it is brewing at home. It seems a bit like the Brewie in that it takes all the fun and experimentation away

 

[Drunkula]

I don't consider anybody that isn't trying to learn from homebrewing a homebrewer. I don't care how many kits you've made to me it's like somebody making a cup-a-soup and calling themselves a chef.

This machine is a coffee pod thingy equivalent.

 

[Bigjas]

This like warming up a ready meal and calling it cooking. I really don’t see the point in this stuff, for me home brewing is all about learning how to take basic ingredients and create different beers that you enjoy. For me, the journey is as important as the destination.

 

[Drunkula]

My definition of when something is a hobby is when a man cleans something without his wife nagging him to do it. This machine cleans itself, too.

 

[Saisonator]

Just as well go and buy it ready made, it would taste better too.

 

[Keruso]

Technically yes, as it’s creating alcohol at home. But it’s really pitched at the affordable end of the new all in one small batch desktop systems like minibrew which are well over a £1000. Almost twice the price of a grainfather system, but certainly far simpler and more convenient to some. Here is a review of the minibrew
I can see the appeal but it’s not for me.

 

[Keruso]

This like warming up a ready meal and calling it cooking. I really don’t see the point in this stuff, for me home brewing is all about learning how to take basic ingredients and create different beers that you enjoy. For me, the journey is as important as the destination.

Yes i totally agree, that’s what I did, I still think I’m a novice that learns every time I brew

 

[Drunkula]

Addendum to what I said about being a homebrewer, I got either 28 or 38 kits really cheap (I have no memory of that time!) and immediately wanted to learn so the first kit was split into 5 different types of priming sugar, the next kit had 5 different types of brewing sugar, the next 5 yeasts, the next one my first dry hop. Etc. I never even thought that I was a homebrewer, just somebody that did brewing but if I saw somebody else doing it I'd say they were one. So it's not kits, it's process and progress I'd get all whiffy and sniffy about, I suppose.

I'm a right snob about some things - come at me!

 

[Keruso]

Addendum to what I said about being a homebrewer, I got either 28 or 38 kits really cheap (I have no memory of that time!) and immediately wanted to learn so the first kit was split into 5 different types of priming sugar, the next kit had 5 different types of brewing sugar, the next 5 yeasts, the next one my first dry hop. Etc. I never even thought that I was a homebrewer, just somebody that did brewing but if I saw somebody else doing it I'd say they were one. So it's not kits, it's process and progress I'd get all whiffy and sniffy about, I suppose.

I'm a right snob about some things - come at me!

Hehe have a great Xmas

 

[Chippy_Tea]

The article says its already been done (see the Brewart below) and they haven't even got a price for it yet, how many members know someone who owns the Brewart, i cannot see this new machine doing well?

At the end he does a comparison with a bought beer and 50% of his office staff get it wrong, considering its likely to be Fosters thats an epic fail.

 

[terrym]

'Brewing at home' covers anything from someone doing basic kits with minimal equipment in their kitchenette, to someone who has spent £££s on a set up in a dedicated outhouse, rivalling a small scale commercial brewery.
So since this kit fits somewhere in there the answer is yes.

 

[MyQul]

'Brewing at home' covers anything from someone doing basic kits with minimal equipment in their kitchenette, to someone who has spent £££s on a set up in a dedicated outhouse, rivalling a small scale commercial brewery.
So since this kit fits somewhere in there the answer is yes.

Thats my thoughts on it too so I also voted yes

 

[Drunkula]

'Brewing at home' covers anything from someone doing basic kits with minimal equipment in their kitchenette, to someone who has spent £££s on a set up in a dedicated outhouse, rivalling a small scale commercial brewery.
So since this kit fits somewhere in there the answer is yes.

Before I started brewing tidy, my mum and girlfriend bought me alcoshots kits**. Instead of using the plastic buckets I brewed them in a golden pot with tinsel round the rim. And declared "Je suis un brasseur à domicile!!" and even though then I thought "hurry up and brew, you blue grog so I can puke up a Smurf!!" I knew right there I was a home brewer.

** this part is true - the rest of the journey may feature mild teasing and a genuine need for a keyboard that features a breathaliser.