8 best breweries

Our rating of the best breweries opens a fully justified set for the first "sample" on the way to home brewers. Knowing the right places, it will definitely be cheaper to assemble it separately, but this option is relevant, rather, for residents of very large settlements - or it will require much more time.The undoubted advantage of the simplest sets of Beer Zavodik is the possibility of further use of all components - both when deepening interest in brewing and in case of disappointment. In difference, say, from smart, but impractical breweries like BeerMachine or InPinto. Actually, only the uninformative thermometer can be considered relatively useless in Beer Zavodik Mini.

We do not recommend spending money on steeper configurations of the factory. It is unlikely that at this stage you will need an overflow siphon and accessories for bottle capping (there are no them in the kit). Even without a areometer, cooking extract beer is easy to do.

Cylindro-conical tanks can be used in any type of brewing, as far as they are functionally advanced fermentation tanks. In particular, they allow to do without overflow to secondary fermentation, easily remove the precipitate, stabilize the temperature, perform forced carbonization, etc. True, only professional models are capable of all of the above, and Chronical fermenters are limited to the first two points (after upgrading to the Brewmaster Edition level, three). Compared to the more affordable plastic CCT, the products of the American company have several significant advantages, but we only note the use of standard clamp connections. This alone provides high flexibility and the ability to connect various optional accessories. The younger Chronical model is designed for the fermentation of 26 liters of wort, but we would advise homebrewers to focus on the 53-liter version of such a CCT.

Use for cooking mash stainless steel tanks optional. Another thing is that aluminum pans / cans can give an undesirable taste to beer (if you destroy the oxide film on their surface during the cleaning process), and the enameled dishes eventually darken and acquire chips (i.e. potential sources of enrichment of the future hop beverage with iron oxides ). It should be recognized that Luxstahl cooking containers are also not the ultimate dream, as far as they are made of conditionally stainless AISI 201 alloy - but they are definitely better than other available options. You just need to remember to wipe such boilers well after washing.

With all the rest of the recommended set MIRBIR everything is in order. This brewery is a good choice to join the grain brewers camp and has some potential to transform into an automated brewery.

To preserve the biological purity of the wort, it is highly desirable to produce a quick cooling. If the corresponding systems are evaluated by a combination of indicators of efficiency-convenience-cost, then the best design of the refrigerator is realized in automatic breweries Grainfather, and it is called a counter-current chiller. It is noteworthy that the New Zealand cooker is copied by everyone who feels like it, but no one has yet offered full-time kits with a counterflow. Of the other advantages of Grainfather, it is impossible not to note the presence of a Bluetooth module that allows you to remotely control the cooking process and upload new recipes; telescopic basket of the bunker, adapted to the volume of the mound; as well as the external location of the pump, which greatly simplifies cleaning, there is such a need.

The most "smart" brewery in our ranking. In accordance with the selected recipe, he is able to draw water, wash the malt on his own, add hops at the right moments (4 tabs). The owner of this miracle of technology needs only to drain the ready wort into the fermentation tank, add yeast, and on Brewie 20+, run self-cleaning. In general, no dancing around the brewery in the process. Recipes are already ready, are downloaded via Wi-Fi, are added manually. Unfortunately, this model does not allow to cover all beer styles. For example, boiling of many German varieties involves the use of decoctions, but here they can only be performed in an emergency mode, i.e. Immediately lost all the benefits of full-cycle technology. In addition, I would like more variety in terms of cooking volumes.