Grainfather 70L Price, Release Date & more

[David Heath]

Fresh from the main trade event of the year, here is the full information announced to the homebrew industry by Grainfather about their forthcoming 70L brewing system along with many thoughts from the trade and public.
What do you think?

 

[Clint]

Quite a brutal review there Dave...fair do's!

 

[JonBrew]

I've never owned an all in one system and don't know a great deal about them but I think if I had the cheddar to be shelling out on a G70 I'd be seriously considering going that £500 odd further for the Brewtools 80L. In for a penny, in for a pound as they say.

 

[David Heath]

Quite a brutal review there Dave...fair do's!

It was designed to just report things as they are, not to be brutal at all. What do you think about the price for example? All I am hearing really is people saying the same things.

 

[David Heath]

I've never owned an all in one system and don't know a great deal about them but I think if I had the cheddar to be shelling out on a G70 I'd be seriously considering going that £500 odd further for the Brewtools 80L. In for a penny, in for a pound as they say.

It certainly was the talk of the event in my industry at least. The price seems to be getting a lot of negative attention in public also. It is not too late for them to change it though.

 

[MyQul]

Good review Dave. Dont think I'll be buying it anytime soon though

 

[Clint]

Perhaps brutal was the wrong word...straight to the point..price..that’s brutal!

 

[David Heath]

Perhaps brutal was the wrong word...straight to the point..price..that’s brutal!

Haha, ok thank you :) Well you know, I may live in Norway but I am from London :P

 

[Sinktipper]

If I had that kind of money I think I'd buy two smaller one-pot systems and another fermenter. 70 Litres is a lot of one type of beer to get through - although I suppose you could use this commercially.

 

[MyQul]

If I had that kind of money I think I'd buy two smaller one-pot systems and another fermenter. 70 Litres is a lot of one type of beer to get through - although I suppose you could use this commercially.

This is what I often think about for these large volume systems. So you have a few mates who also drink you're HB but 70L+ is still a huge amount to get through

 

[BeerCat]

70l is a good size. Enough to fill at least 2 cornies and would save time brewing. Way too much money though. Good review David.

 

[JonBrew]

agree with both of the above in terms of 70L being too much for my solo homebrewer needs.

could be showing my ignorance here but I reckon a small brew pub brewing every day or twice a day (maybe 3-4 days a per week) could get by with one of these.

 

[MyQul]

agree with both of the above in terms of 70L being too much for my solo homebrewer needs.

could be showing my ignorance here but I reckon a small brew pub brewing every day or twice a day (maybe 3-4 days a per week) could get by with one of these.

This is what I can only imagine these larger set up are for - small commercial enterprises or small to medium ones for pilot batches

 

[David Heath]

Good review Dave. Dont think I'll be buying it anytime soon though

Thank you :)

 

[David Heath]

70l is a good size. Enough to fill at least 2 cornies and would save time brewing. Way too much money though. Good review David.

Thank you. I guess it just depends on personal situation at the end of the day. Perhaps systems like this suit people that brew together socially or those that mostly brew the same beer often and want to brew less.

 

[Clint]

What Beercat said.... making a double batch it more isn't much more bother than making 23l...as for having a lot of the same stuff you could always split the wort and do different dry hops..

 

[David Heath]

What Beercat said.... making a double batch it more isn't much more bother than making 23l...as for having a lot of the same stuff you could always split the wort and do different dry hops..

Yes, quite true. I have a video on split wort brewing, you can actually make a crazy amount of styles from the same grain bill by using different yeast and cold side additions.

 

[Clint]

.."cold side additions" I like that but usually for me it's pork pies and scotch eggs!

 

[David Heath]

.."cold side additions" I like that but usually for me it's pork pies and scotch eggs!

haha. I just came back from Germany. There its just endless amounts of sausages and pork. The beer is pretty good though!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Watched the review Dave very good and unlike the US ones no gallons and Fahrenheit thought it was unbiased. But all in ones not for me where the fun in that.