Your chance to trial a FREE Pinter!

[TexanTrail]

I enjoy fresh beer! And it gives me something else to do to stay out of trouble.

 

[cfrazier77]

Making my own beer

 

[kjdevault1]

Hello all,

We're now halfway through our Kickstarter Campaign and have funded 350% of our goal!

After many interesting comments from some of you on here, we'd like to offer one of you the chance to try a Pinter + a Pinter Pack of your choice.

If you'd like try a Pinter, please answer one simple question and we'll pick someone at random on Tuesday August 1st.

What do you enjoy most about brewing your own beer at home?

Have a nice weekend all!

I have just begun my homebrewing journey. I’m loving the ability to play with different flavor combinations and develop them in a new challenging way than I’ve been able to do with food flavors for the last 20+ years.

 

[Nate R]

I hate to be "that guy"... but...

f you'd like try a Pinter, please answer one simple question and we'll pick someone at random on Tuesday August 1st.

Did you pick a winner yet? Selfishly i want the candidate pool to be smaller than largere. I like my 1 in 62 chances!!

Thanks!

 

[GoodTruble]

I hate to be "that guy"... but...

Did you pick a winner yet? Selfishly i want the candidate pool to be smaller than largere. I like my 1 in 62 chances!!

Thanks!

I have a sneaking suspicion they did. =c)

 

[Kickass]

I have a sneaking suspicion they did. =c)

Are we to congratulate @GoodTruble?

 

[GoodTruble]

Yes, shockingly my sarcastic post allegedly won (-proving the randomness of the selection).

I've got plans to try it out with an old college roommate who expressed interest in brewing. We will take pictures and post some (appropriately deferential) comments in a thread on this site.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Hmph. A public announcement of the winner with a "thanks for participating" for the rest would've been a polite way to close a contest.

Looking forward to your report, @GoodTruble.

 

[IslandLizard]

Congratulations, @GoodTruble!

Looking forward to your report, @GoodTruble.

I'm joining that group, awaiting the results and your findings.

 

[Exception13]

Congrats @GoodTruble ! And here I thought my slightly sarcastic... but mostly true rejoinder would have tipped scales in my favour.

Awaiting your test results.

Cheers!

 

[huckdavidson]

@GoodTruble did you ever receive your Pinter and make a beer with it? How did it turn out?

 

[GoodTruble]

Yes. I received it, and I took some unboxing photos (below). I was going to brew it with a friend and post photos/a review, but my friend had to cancel and then I had a relative fall ill. So I've barely had time to brew at all. But I will hopefully get to it this month and still plan to post pictures/a review.

First impression was that the packaging was impressive, and the build quality seemed really solid. My big questions were how it handled the spunding/pressure regulation and how easy/hard it would be to clean afterward, but I'll look into that when I actually make the beer. For now, here are the unboxing photos (I included a dollar bill for a sense of scale)......

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[jpb2716]

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[huckdavidson]

Thanks for updating us @GoodTruble.

It appears that the extract in the kit has a BBE date of 12/2023 and may no longer be representative of the extract consumers would receive.

Even with outdated extract I look forward to your review of the system and am still ISO a review of fresh extract from their supplier and what if any difference it makes in the final product.

 

[GoodTruble]

Thanks for updating us @GoodTruble.

It appears that the extract in the kit has a BBE date of 12/2023 and may no longer be representative of the extract consumers would receive.

Even with outdated extract I look forward to your review of the system and am still ISO a review of fresh extract from their supplier and what if any difference it makes in the final product.

Fair point. I'll put an asterisk over any concerns about the taste =c).

And sorry for the delay for anyone interested. Two weeks after this arrived, my father fell ill, was hospitalized for several weeks and passed away. I've been wrapping up his affairs since and have only brewed once since then (which was a double brew day this past Saturday to make two "Christmas" beers for which I had already written the recipes and gathered the ingredients months ago).

But I will get to this, hopefully this coming weekend. And a cancelled beer tasting party from September will hopefully get rescheduled for later this month, providing feedback from several people.

 

[IslandLizard]

And sorry for the delay for anyone interested. Two weeks after this arrived, my father fell ill, was hospitalized for several weeks and passed away. I've been wrapping up his affairs since

So sad that happened, life is unpredictable. My condolences to you and your family.

Whenever you have time and get inspiration to brew with your Pinter, we're curious about the results. Even with past use-by-date ingredients, it's always a good and valid test.

BTW, I will always have trouble not reading Print-er.

 

[Lampy]

And sorry for the delay for anyone interested. Two weeks after this arrived, my father fell ill, was hospitalized for several weeks and passed away.

May he rest in peace.

I too look forward to seeing how this brewing system works out!

 

[ba-brewer]

@GoodTruble, The verbiage for the contest says "try a pinter", did they send you a return shipping label or do you get to keep the unit?

 

[GoodTruble]

@GoodTruble, The verbiage for the contest says "try a pinter", did they send you a return shipping label or do you get to keep the unit?

I did not see a return label, it wasn't mentioned, and that thought never crossed my mind. (So..... I'm keeping it =c) ).

 

[jerrylotto]

If you'd like try a Pinter, please answer one simple question and we'll pick someone at random on Tuesday August 1st.
What do you enjoy most about brewing your own beer at home?

The challenge of understanding and optimizing all of the chemistry and biology involved in the process.

 

[Miraculix]

The challenge of understanding and optimizing all of the chemistry and biology involved in the process.

About half a year too late mate!

 

[jerrylotto]

About half a year too late mate!

No worries - was just intrigued by the question

 

[Broken Crow]

Please hear me out. Because of brain-damage, I have a very difficult time trying to type out complex thoughts in their entirety because I get hung up on just getting the words out, and this is a detailed thought about a matter very important to me.
Although I would never consider this product myself, I see a great potential in it if they would offer low-alcohol, marketed as 'no-alcohol' recipes as an option. It could teach kids about brewing like the Easy-Bake Oven teaches kids about baking...Bear with me:
I grew up next door to my dads service station. I've had to clean up and tow away the wreckage of hundreds of DUI's.... on multiple occasions, having to stop hooking up and have the police get someone over to remove pieces of flesh, bone, teeth, fingers etc that were stuck in areas I had to put the chains or route the tow-light cable. As a consequence, I've had to meet many parents when they come to claim the wreck and they are alwys one of 2 types: About 2/3 are the uptight clearly dogmatics that never allowed their children near alcohol, and the other 1/3 are drunks themselves who nevertheless go to church every Sunday and beat their kids if they 'misbehave'. I went to a catholic grade school that was mostly Italian and some Eastern European immigrants and the kids grew up with wine regularly at the dinner table...heck, half the neighborhood made their own and as kid I got to learn from a few of them. I continued as an adult to spend time at my dads shop so I know what happened to all the kids from grade school and know who were the many well-known neighborhood drunks. All the drunks were from one of the 2 previously mentioned type parents. Not one single child whose parents had a more relaxed attitude was among them because even in my own experience growing up; Alcohol was not the big deal to them that it is to teens who have always been prohibited it.
I sincerely believe they should market a version for kids aged 8-16 with low-alcohol kits and call it "Billy Bockers Easy-Brew Pub Keg"
I know it sounds like I'm taking the piss, but I think we all know how we felt growing up about thing that were absolutely forbidden. I take the toll of irresponsible alcohol use and attitudes very very seriously and see the potential of this product as a developmental aid.
I don't know if my thoughts are too far 'outside the box', but 'inside the box' a cat always dies.

 

[DrGMG]

About half a year too late mate!

I was about to answer too

 

[tre9er]

sooooo, did you ever brew with it?

 

[NitrogenWidget]

yeah did you brew with it?

 

[vsforg]

Sharing it with friends

 

[BeerPioneer]

I love sharing my homebrew with friends

 

[BrewhouseBoys]

For me there is a sense of accomplishment. I made that. It was nothing and I made it something. That gets better when you share it with others too.

 

[cowboybuckup]

Fresh beer