CompaBrew - new homebrewing system inspired by industrial equipment. Kickstarte

[AStogniy]

Dear homebrewers,

We have just launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to promote the CompaBrew system – a home/nano brewing system inspired by industrial brewing equipment.

Following the link below you can read more about the system, see video and photos and back up the project.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/858727859/compabrew-semi-automated-small-batch-brewing-syste

We appreciate any kind of support from your side. Please feel free to distribute this info to your networks and to anyone, who might be interested.

You are also welcome to ask any questions and give feedback.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Alexander Stogniy

tel. +45 27 77 86 94
www.craftidgroup.com

 

[Mer-man]

So it only makes wort and costs 17.000DKK for the alpha version.
Is that including VAT?

I think it looks sweet -- love the vertical arrangement.

My overall feedback is that wort-making is the easiest part and there is a lot of competition.

Where significant improvement can be made is the cold side (ferment and dispense), e.g. that washing machine company that made a kegerator-fermentor.

 

[madscientist451]

Interesting concept, the video is well done. What I like about it:
-Gravity feed, no pump and hoses to clean
-The stir feature in the mash tun
-The modular concept where the parts fit together and can then be taken apart and cleaned while the boil is going on.
-If there was a 1BBL model for a Nano Brewery, you could have 2 boil units and 1 mash and lauter tun and when the first is done mashing, you could move the mash unit over to the second boil kettle.
But I won't be buying one, for the following reasons:
1. The Price. At $3200 (for the 2018 version) plus shipping there are a lot of other options out there and I'm not going to shell out that kind of money on a product with un-proven reliability.
2. The design. It looks like the unit has built in heating blankets that are sealed into the walls of the mash tun and boil kettle? What will happen if these
heaters stop working? Can the unit be taken apart to replace the heat blankets? And if I want to spend $3200, I don't have to recirculate by hand.
I already do manual re-circulation with my cheapo cooler mash tun. Also, pulling the plug on the mash tun looks somewhat awkward and the seal created by a plug could be problem after many uses.

I couldn't tell from the video how sparging is done or how that step would be accomplished, other than dumping more water through the mash tun. Perhaps a future version of the video can explain that.

My 2 cents: Get the cost down and put it out on the market and see what happens. I also think you could sell the insulated (but unheated) mash and lauter tun sections, brewers could then add their own hot water and drain to their own boil kettles.

 

[AStogniy]

Hello!

Thank you for a feedback.
Just some comments, as it some things might have looked unclear.

1. Price - unfortunately this is where it comes to with three vessel system - a classic brewing. There are many options on the market, but most of them are recirculation systems. For other you need gas burners and you do not heat from the sides. The temperature with gas burners is far above 140C, so you might burn your mash...
2. The heating elements are not exchangeable in the first design, but the removable insulation can be done, so you can service the heaters. According to supplier of heaters (UK company), they can last 35 years if you brew every week.
3. Plug in the center doesn`t give any problems at all. If there is a concern, we can supply 10 spare gaskets with every set.
4. Sparging is done manually by spraying the hot water over the spent grains in the lauter tun.
We`ll do our best to put the system into market, but it is highly dependent on the interest, you guys have))

Please ask if any more questions.

Alexander.