I'm looking at this frigging thing and trying to understand. It looks like a K-cup machine for beer. You just pop in a pre-sealed carton with grains and hops and... get a keg of inoculated wort?
I don't get it. I don't mean to be fightey about this, I just legitimately don't understand.
Who is this for? Is anyone buying these and saying, with a straight face, "this is some beer I brewed"? Is the idea to get authorized "homemade" copies of professionally brewed beers? Is the idea to get mass-produced beer but fresher? Ain't gonna taste great if it's only fermented a week.
On the other hand I don't get how it could be for convenience. It costs $30+ per pack and you can't drink it for a week + carb time. That $30 buys a few six packs _today_ and it's been fermented at the correct speed and you have a nearly identical level of personal involvement in it's brewing. I guess you have to keep it cool while the fermentation is happening? That's not super convenient.
Maybe somebody has positive spin to put on it. I'm gonna check on my carboys and go to bed before I get any grumpier.
I don't get it. I don't mean to be fightey about this, I just legitimately don't understand.
Who is this for? Is anyone buying these and saying, with a straight face, "this is some beer I brewed"? Is the idea to get authorized "homemade" copies of professionally brewed beers? Is the idea to get mass-produced beer but fresher? Ain't gonna taste great if it's only fermented a week.
On the other hand I don't get how it could be for convenience. It costs $30+ per pack and you can't drink it for a week + carb time. That $30 buys a few six packs _today_ and it's been fermented at the correct speed and you have a nearly identical level of personal involvement in it's brewing. I guess you have to keep it cool while the fermentation is happening? That's not super convenient.
Maybe somebody has positive spin to put on it. I'm gonna check on my carboys and go to bed before I get any grumpier.