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The Beer Machine $65 at Target

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Perfect gift for the man that has everything. This Beer Machine is a high quality engineered brewing system, making great tasting premium beer as easy as 1-2-3. Pour in the beer mix, add water and yeast, wait 7 to 10 days, serve and enjoy fresh premium tasting beer. The pressure control valve regulates the brewing pressue to maintain natural carbonation while the temperature gauge allows you to control the brewing process and obtain correct serving temperature. The carbonation unit uses standard size 8 gram CO-2 bulbs. Add more carbonation whenever you want. Control the 'beer head' when serving and preserve the fresh condition of your beer. One beer mix and instruction guide included. Extra beer mixes sold separately.
I was told the price is normally over $100 but I cannot confirm this.

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  • Is this a bargain or regular price?

    • It is in the "Below Cost" section of the Target website. I was told it's normally over $100

  • Saw this last night, was wondering how long it would be before someone posted on ozb lol

    • You could have posted it.

      • Maybe he didn't because its a piece of junk and didn't want people to waste their money.

      • +2

        I thought it was a piece of junk, didn't seem particularly cheap.

  • Any reviews of the product (the brewer and the brew)?

  • It's simple but I'd prefer to bottle my beer rather than drinking something that has been sitting on a bed of yeast.

  • +15

    best bet getting the coopers home brew kit …

    alternatively, go to bunnings & get:
    - 25L plastic barrel with a screw plug in the bottom (approx 20$)
    - a plastic tap that fits (approx 2$)
    - go to brew shop & get one valve way twisty water thing (approx 5$)
    - get rubber seal for one way valve (approx 2$)
    - get can of home brew stuff from supermarket (approx 15$)
    - 1kg sugar (approx 2$)
    - 1 bag of carbonation drops (approx 5$)
    - empty plastic bottles (screw top with lids)

    Then you just:
    - drill hole in top of plastic barrel
    - insert rubber seal
    - insert one way valve into rubber seal
    - insert plastic tap into plug hole in bottom of barrel
    - ensure tap is turned off
    - add sugar
    - can of home brew stuff
    - add 18-20L of water
    - wait 1-2 weeks

    When ready you:
    - use tap to fill plastic bottles
    - add 1 carbonation drop per 3-400ml
    - seal & store for approx 4 weeks

    then refridgerate & drink when icy cold

    = 51$ set up cost for 2 cartons of beer
    = 22$ per 2 cartons ongoing

    • +1

      Well played, Sir.

      Having done the home brew scene many years ago, the beer machine looks a lot easier.

    • cut some corners on setting up.

      bunnings 22 ltr food grade bucket + lid $8.
      one way valve - just use some thin plastic tube that you bend so the end sits in a glass of water on top of the bucket.
      rubber seal/grommet -essential
      bottles - go to a pub and ask if you can dumpster dive into their glass recycling bin for appropriate beer bottles. buy some caps from supermarket 50 for $2.50. or find a restaurant/cafe that sell coopers and ask them to save them for you for recycling. get yourself a warwick (capper). nothing beats glass.

      • +1

        Better still than the grommet.. Just cover the bucket with glad wrap, used the rubber seal that normally lives inside the lid as a giant rubber band to keep the glad wrap in place. Can see inside the fermenter far more easily, keeps any nasties out but the gas escapes fine.

        (50+ batches of beer/cider done this way).

        • pardon my ignorance, but the gas will pass through the glad wrap?

  • -3

    Can it make beer that doesn't taste disgusting (like piss)?

    • You have tasted actual piss?

      • +2

        Yes, I once was stranded at sea and had to in order to survive.

        • define "stranded", "sea" and "survive".

  • good luck getting beer mixes…………..

    • Exactly what I was going to ask, where do you get the mixes from and how much do they cost?

  • +1

    No need to use their mixes..

    Can use the coopers kits if you want (without the extra sugar/malt.. or half can/half malt) or better still 1KG of dry malt, whatever hops you want, boil for 20minutes or so (can get more complex depending on your style) chill and add yeast. All this really is is a nifty container,the fermentables are whatever you want them to be.. easy enough to make a decent cider from a few bottles of just juice.

    Could be useful for people who have less available brewing space. If nothing else I'm tempted to add it to my brewing kit simply for dispensing my normal brews, half a batch into this, the other half into bottles.

  • Probably good to make ginger beer in :)

  • Great post weezlebub though you forgot the part where you have to clean and then sterilize the different items. This adds a fair bit of time.

    $22 for 2 cartons? Nah. I do double brews in a 60l old printing ink container and it costs me around $42 to get 5 cartons (1 brew) after everything is accounted for. Just bottled 60 tallies of Czech Pils yesterday and they need to be left for about 3 months. I buy everything from my local privately owned brew shop which matches the prices of BigW and Kmart.

  • Thx, just got one from Riverview Target, had 2 left after me. The mix was below cost as well at $10

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