The Complete System of an Automated Home Brewery

When individuals consider making their own beer, there is the choice to create a home brewing system from scratch or to buy an automated home brewery system. When buying an automated home brewery system, there are different types to look at, from semi to fully automatic so that the process is purely done by the machine from start to finish. There are also different sizes of automated home brewery systems on the market, the average being a fifteen gallon system which makes the home like a micro brewery. Although the automated home brewery systems are nice from a convenience standpoint, they also run over two thousand dollars in most cases which is more expensive than most individuals are willing to pay.

Other Options

Instead of buying an automated home brewery system, individuals can make their own home brewery set by buying each individual piece of equipment separately. This way the entire set costs less than two hundred dollars, depending on the size of the equipment that the individual desires for each piece of the set. This is considerably less expensive than the automated home brewery systems that are on the market.

Brewing at home without an automated system is a process that takes a lot of time and cleaning in order to make sure all is sterilized for the process to work correctly. Most of the equipment can be placed in the dish washer for sanitizing through the heat drying cycle, although some pieces may be too large for some dish washers. If this is the case, the equipment needs to be sanitized through a bleach solution or an iodized solution so that all bacteria is killed before using the equipment in the beer making process. This is something that is made easier with an automated home brewery system, as some of them come with a cycle that will sanitize the equipment without that scrubbing involved with a set.

There are beer kits that make the rest of the process easier with a home brewing system since all of the ingredients are contained within the kit for the home brewing process. Once the ingredients are boiled and dissolved then they are placed into the primary fermenter for three to five days where it begins the fermentation process as wort. During the process carbon dioxide is let off and no outside air can be let into the fermenter. After that, the bottling process can begin and the secondary fermentation process can begin.