Speigel Braumeister

[gungadin]

Has anyone seen this braumeister?

http://morebeer.com/view_product/11861/104232/Speidel_200L_Braumeister

It looks like in reality it could produce about 1.5 bbl at a time, it is rated at 200l finished beer. I believe it is new to this country but looks interesting for a nano/add a house beer to a restaurant option.

I can see a couple of drawbacks but am interested to get other points of view. Seems like it would start with a pretty thin mash and brew a high gravity batch that was suitable for liquoring back. It would be challenging to brew multiple batches in a day since you could not mash batch two while boiling one. You also could not acidify your sparge water since there is no sparge.

Any thoughts?

[yap]

pricey...

It also costs 14,500 (without shipping). For that much money you could put together a nano system that would run laps around it...and still have money for fermentation (which isn't included)...

[gungadin]

braumeister pricing

Agreed, Braumeister is spendy and does not have fermentation capacity. I would ferment in plastic conicals early on. The attraction for me was the electric angle. I have also priced franken systems but you have to consider ventilation and fire suppression in a direct fired system with open flame.

Putting a ventilation hood with an ansul system over your 1.5bbl direct fire system could add as much as $10k to a project. Even if you find a decent used hood/fan/ansul setup you have to have it professionally installed. I think with the electric setup you could get away with a ventilation fan only.

How many nano folks are electric vs. direct fired? I know at least one brewer I have talked with is electric, perhaps more are?