Gadgetory

I love the idea of an automatic beer brewing robot and right now the $400 peekaboo Pico model C is the closest approximation we have to that dream like most dreams harsh realities get in the way of perfection so I'm not going to recommend the model C to most beer lovers or home brewers but let's start with the good stuff so this is stargazer IPA from rooftop brewing in Seattle and it's delicious it's an example of pika brew at its best because I wouldn't normally have access to that beer around me in Kentucky but through pika brews website I order these things called Pico packs there are 25 30 bucks they brew up 5 litres of beer and pico brew offers them from breweries all over the country and all over the world for home brewers one thing to keep in mind is that you're not actually brewing you hit a button so this machine won't even teach you to homebrew after the via cooks for a couple of hours you let it sit overnight to cool then add yeast then you need to let it sit for a few days while your beer ferments then again while it carbonates lots of things can go wrong during that time so this is a saison we made in the Pico brew and it's flat the saison under the carbonation issue is fine but Pico brew for the most part leaves you on your own for fermentation and carbonation what went wrong here is the second time we've used the serving keg and the seal didn't hold properly and so when you wait a couple of weeks for a beer and it isn't very good that's pretty disappointing especially because Pico packs cost $25 that's like 14 bottles of beer so you're not actually saving that much money from batch to batch so the model see is the best fit for avid beer lovers who want to try beers from small local outfits from all over the world I do recommend it if that sounds appealing but one last reality to keep in mind you still have to do a lot of careful cleaning and sanitizing to get the beer right finally this is a Mexican dark lager and it's bad like it's straight-up bad something went wrong in the brewing process and the thing is it might have been my fault I might not have properly sanitized something that caused the beer to get infected but that just shows that peekaboo while it's better now and while it's easier to use is still not fully foolproof so I don't generally recommend the model C for home brewers or casual beer drinkers or folks looking for something as simple as a curing for beer on the plus side it's a more genuine process than doing something like brewing from concentrate but on the downside it requires more know-how and attention to detail to get things right