Warthogrugby
Well-Known Member
I wanted to post and talk about the how cool the Pico is. Mine just arrive today and I put it through it's first brew session.
I am really excited about the Pico. My main reason for wanting it was getting access to beer that would otherwise not be distributed to me.
The packaging for the Pico was first class. It came with the Pico Unit, a 1.75 gal keg, the 5 liter serving vessel, a couple of ball lock adaptors for the rinse cycle, a ball lock siphon hose for after fermentation, the force carbonation gauge, as well as a fast fermenting spunding valve.
The Pico Pack is really cleverly done. The grain and the hops are all preloaded into their respective bio degradable containers. There is a lable for the beer that gets packaged with the pack that you can stick on to the fermentor and then serving keg (it has a light adhesive so you can transfer no problem) as well as a unique stick on thermometer that is tailored for the style being brewed. It also came with the CO2 container which has just the right volume of CO2 for the particular style.
Set up was a breeze. Really fast and easy. Plug in, turn on, find and log into Wi-Fi, and then register the device on your PicoBrew account. That's it.
As for brew day, it's just about as simple. 1) Fill up the water reservoir and the keg to the defined water level 2) Hook the keg up to the device 3)You pull out the step filter, load in the grain box and hop box, and load the step filter back in. 4) The Pico automatically recongnizes the Pico Pack and loads the recipe into the machine. 5) Hit go (after giving a prompt if you want more or less hoppy and more or less ABV). This took less than two minutes.
Clean up was pretty spectacularly easy too. 1) unhook the keg 2) pull out the step filter and dump the grain and hop box into the composte 3) rinse the step filter, this is really easy as there is no residue from grain or hops 4) attached the ball lock adaptors to the line in and line out ball locks 5) have a pitcher of clean water to draw from and an empty pitcher to deposit to. The clean cycle took all of 3 minutes.
All in all, from start to finish, 2 hours and 20 minutes, only 5 minutes that needed a human.
Don't get me wrong, I love my brew days when I can do my traditional all grain batches, but I love beer more. I thought the Zymatic was a godsend to being able to brew more again (which it was/is) but the Pico is even more so.
I am really excited about the Pico. My main reason for wanting it was getting access to beer that would otherwise not be distributed to me.
The packaging for the Pico was first class. It came with the Pico Unit, a 1.75 gal keg, the 5 liter serving vessel, a couple of ball lock adaptors for the rinse cycle, a ball lock siphon hose for after fermentation, the force carbonation gauge, as well as a fast fermenting spunding valve.
The Pico Pack is really cleverly done. The grain and the hops are all preloaded into their respective bio degradable containers. There is a lable for the beer that gets packaged with the pack that you can stick on to the fermentor and then serving keg (it has a light adhesive so you can transfer no problem) as well as a unique stick on thermometer that is tailored for the style being brewed. It also came with the CO2 container which has just the right volume of CO2 for the particular style.
Set up was a breeze. Really fast and easy. Plug in, turn on, find and log into Wi-Fi, and then register the device on your PicoBrew account. That's it.
As for brew day, it's just about as simple. 1) Fill up the water reservoir and the keg to the defined water level 2) Hook the keg up to the device 3)You pull out the step filter, load in the grain box and hop box, and load the step filter back in. 4) The Pico automatically recongnizes the Pico Pack and loads the recipe into the machine. 5) Hit go (after giving a prompt if you want more or less hoppy and more or less ABV). This took less than two minutes.
Clean up was pretty spectacularly easy too. 1) unhook the keg 2) pull out the step filter and dump the grain and hop box into the composte 3) rinse the step filter, this is really easy as there is no residue from grain or hops 4) attached the ball lock adaptors to the line in and line out ball locks 5) have a pitcher of clean water to draw from and an empty pitcher to deposit to. The clean cycle took all of 3 minutes.
All in all, from start to finish, 2 hours and 20 minutes, only 5 minutes that needed a human.
Don't get me wrong, I love my brew days when I can do my traditional all grain batches, but I love beer more. I thought the Zymatic was a godsend to being able to brew more again (which it was/is) but the Pico is even more so.