williamsWarn, too bad so expensive

kh54s10 said:

That thing is really expensive to make an all extract and hop juice beer. Your options for making recipes is extremely limited. You could make the same thing with a MrBeer for a fraction of the price.

I suppose you could use additional equipment to brew a real beer then use it for fermentation only. But I can do that in a Better Bottle and my fermentation chamber (which will ferment 3 beers at a time) and cost less than 1/10 as much.

I also would not consider a beer finished in 7 days....

IMO to use it as a temperature controlled conical I would be interested in it at about $250 not the $6000 they are asking for.

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jason1973 said:

i was thinking if they upped to 50l $2000 would be okay, I'm in middle of building a under pressure system. 1/4 sankey as primary and either 1/6 or a corny for secondary. williamsWarn i like idea of sediment trap so can secondary in same container, set 5 psi for primary then up to 20 for secondary.

and ignore there method and ingredients all together

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mattd2 said:

I really don't know where you guys are getting your costs from (OP is more realistic). While $6k is expensive - just looking at somewhere like stout tanks range you are at $600 just for a standard 14g conical that can only take 4 psi. Then to through together a small footprint cooling/heating system their peltier DIY kits sell at $125 each and you will need at least 2. And that only gets you the machined mounting plate, heatsinks and fans. You still have to stump up for 4 peltiers and a control system. Then sort out how to pull it all together to be able to ferment and serve.
Yes the Williamswarn is a overpriced in my opinion, but it is not something that you can DIY cheaply (but you could much cheaper than $6k but I doubt sub $1k)
Tho has made mw wonder how you clean the Williamswarn thought?

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jason1973 said:

i know there are cooling conicals that cost alot more than what i suggested

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