Anyone familiar with this system??

Browsing around on CL and came across this.

Beer MicroBrewery - Price Reduced

Any idea how this works? It says no grain is needed...along with a lot of other BS about how it was bought off of a pizza guy.
Are these just the fermenters?
Anyone know what the brand is? The link was not working. This thing has been for sale on CL for many months.

Its an extract system. If it hasn't sold then its overpriced

Looks like its this: http://www.addabrewpub.com/

Seems like it's no good.

This a commercial, no-boil, "brew-in-bag". You buy pre-hopped extract, add water, yeast, and ferment.

We are the only brewpub equipment manufacturer who also produce the brewing ingredients.

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Which is to say, you are locked in on buying from us.

It's a pub-sized Mr. Beer system.

It is not a brew in a bag system. BIAB is all grain and I'd hate to see someone attempt to lift a full bag of grain out of one of these things. BIAB would be really hard to make viable on a commercial scale.

weirdboy said:

It's a pub-sized Mr. Beer system.

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bingo.
this seems like a REAL bad idea

Cool. Thanks for the info. I knew there was something wierd about this thing.

Oh yeah the addabrewpub system..there are a few ancient threads on it...it is like a glorified big mr beer system that resteraunts can buy and use pretty much large scale mr beer or cooper kits...

If it's being sold for 600, obvioulsy the previous owner was not successful.

Here's some of the older threads...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/new-brewery-94457/#post1028388

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f19/local-brewpub-just-opened-they-suck-71220/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/i-little-offended-67856/?highlight=addabrewpub

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/mini-brew-pub-62829/?highlight=addabrewpub

Hold on... I don't see a problem with this. Lots of folks on this board brew with extract. You say it's not a good deal for what reason? The beer is bad? I haven't tried it but I sure have brewed very very high quality extract brews.

I also looked on the site and didn't see anything tying you into their recipes.

Just sayin'...

JVD_X said:

Hold on... I don't see a problem with this. Lots of folks on this board brew with extract. You say it's not a good deal for what reason? The beer is bad? I haven't tried it but I sure have brewed very very high quality extract brews.

I also looked on the site and didn't see anything tying you into their recipes.

Just sayin'...

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I'm not dissing extract home brewers, or serious extract microbrewers, I support a nice pico brewery not to far from me, but he formulates his own recipes and buys fresh extract from ld carlson, just brews them in 30 gallon batches.

IIRC, back then you WERE tied to their recipes...and if you read through those threads I posted, people evdiently tried them....and were disspointed...Don't shoot the messenger here.

In fact if you look at the "I was a little offended" thread I was actually DEFENDING extract microbreweries, INCLUDING the addabrewpub system.

It is not a brew in a bag

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Yes it is. You are confusing this with using a VLGB for partial mashing (something I've advocated for years). There are brewing 'systems' out there that are nothing more than a plastic bag that you add hot water to. Google 'brewsack'.

I haven't confused brew in a bag with anything. It's an all grain brewing method. The Brewing Network &bull; View topic - How to go from Extract to AG for < $10.00

Never heard of VLGB.

Ha! The OP is absolutely right--I saw this exact same posting on CL (here in DC) months ago. Probably March or April...

If it's being sold for 600, obvioulsy the previous owner was not successful.

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The $650 comment in the listing is just for the ingredients. The listing price for the actual system is $15k.