We brew quality beer at home with the Bavaria brewery

In stores today it is very difficult to find a hoppy drink so that it does not have various additives to improve preservation. An exception is live beer, but the prices at which it is sold are quite high, and anyone who wants to control its composition is unlikely to succeed. For lovers of this ancient foamy drink who decided to cook it at home, the Bavaria home brewery is just what it is.

How to brew beer, in what proportion to add all the necessary ingredients, users will learn from the attached instructions, and in this article we will tell you where to buy such a brewery, its main technical data, as well as advantages and disadvantages.

What it is

Home breweries appeared on the territory of the countries of the former CIS relatively recently, but during this time they gained immense popularity, since true connoisseurs of a foamy drink immediately felt the difference in quality and taste between freshly brewed beer and store fakes.

The mini-brewery is an autonomous hermetic system, it includes: a fermentation tank, a tap for filling the finished product, a pressure gauge and a safety valve. The design is not difficult, but quite effective and allows you to establish directly at home the production of high-quality foamy drink, which will be useful for the body.

In order to correctly compose a recipe, there is an instruction, where all stages of production are described quite popularly, guarantees for the conservation of carbon dioxide, which takes an active part in the proper production of beer. Many readers are interested in cost - each model has its own price, which depends on the volume of the final product, but according to experts, the payback of the product is very fast, because the demand for high-quality beer is constant.

Manufacturer

Helicon-A LLC is engaged in the production and marketing of the Bavaria home brewery in Germany; therefore, prices are two times lower than European counterparts, but not to the detriment of quality. The plant is located in the city of Kirov, which is a regional center.

In addition to automatic breweries and devices for moonshining (distillation), the company carries out electrolyte-plasma polishing and laser cutting of metals.

How does it work

Products are sent to the consumer in a special durable container, all preparations for production can be divided into the following stages:

1. The brewery is assembled quickly and does not require certain knowledge and skills, everything is described in detail in the instructions. Manufacturers advise rinsing all parts in contact with the future drink, hoses and a sieve with iodine solution to disinfect possible bacteria.
2. Then pour water into the container, add malt extract (some experienced home craftsmen prefer to grind the ingredients on their own and cook the wort in the same container, and then pour into another and cool). Add water so that it reaches a special mark, then yeast and tighten the fastenings of the top cover tightly. Now you can start making beer.
3. The capacity is set horizontally in a dark place. Two days later, you can see that the beer begins to ferment, as evidenced by the presence of foam, it can be tasted. After 3-4 days, it is recommended to transfer the capacity to the refrigerator with a temperature of no higher than +3 degrees.
4. In the refrigerator, beer is clarified and fully ripens, saturated with carbon dioxide, and its taste becomes more pleasant. For 10-12 days, the beer is completely ready.

In less than two weeks, you get about 10 liters of high-quality hop and foamy drink and no chemicals, and its taste differs for the better compared to the store counterpart.

Home Breweries

The compact Bavaria brand brewery is used not only at home, but also in small bars and beer pubs. There are three varieties of it:

1. A volume of 30 liters is the minimum size for beginners who take only the first steps in self-cooking. About 10 liters of excellent beer are produced in one cycle. For a day in this way you can prepare 40 liters and ensure normal maturation in 10-12 days. The cost is about 50 thousand rubles.
2. A product with a boiler volume of up to 50 liters and a price of about 60 thousand rubles allows you to get up to 30 liters of classy beer - it is most in demand among home brewers.
3. Bavaria Brewery with a tank volume of up to 70 liters is designed to produce about 50 liters of beer in one working process. With certain skills and one assistant, the output per day can reach more than 180 liters. Such products are mainly used in pubs and beer restaurants with a large influx of customers.

The external shape is a hermetic tank resembling a cylinder elongated in height; it is arranged in such a way that it easily fits on the countertop of the kitchen table. The design consists of gloss-polished food-grade steel parts. The top of the hermetic container is closed with a tight lid with locks. Electronic control using a special unit.

Standard equipment

It is quite simple and consists of the following components:

1. The boiler where the wort is cooked - it consists of a body, a lid, a drain valve, a heating element, a powerful pump and a wire for connecting to the network. Management is via an electronic unit.
2. Mash capacity holds up to 7 kg of malt.
3. A specially shaped strip with a bolt and nut for reliable fixing of the container inside the boiler.
4. Set of 2 screens.
5. User's manual.
6. Recipe book.

The electronic unit not only controls the process, but also remembers 8-e10 recipe options, and when the power is turned off, it restores work from the moment it stops. You need to buy a chiller or coil separately, but this is not a problem, because domestic production and components are easy to find in the respective stores.

Advantages and disadvantages

The positive qualities of mini-products include:

• good quality of the final product and its low cost;
• ingredients from natural reserves - without the presence of chemistry;
• You can prepare different drinks based on malt;
• full automation of production;
• rather high productivity - at least 4 full-weight duty cycles in 24 hours;
• the quality of materials is not inferior to analogues from Europe;
• affordable cost for users.

To the minuses, the experts refer only to the fact that you brew beer according to already formed recipes, but our Kulibins can always make up their individual version by mixing different varieties of malt and making their hop concentration.

How to choose

When buying such equipment, you should consult with experienced brewers who have used such breweries for more than one year. You need to know such moments:

1. For home brewing, the best option is a 30 liter boiler, because during any brewing, the final product is reduced in output, so most recipes in the book are designed specifically for one tab of raw materials in a volume of at least 25-30 liters of drinking, purified water .
2. To save beer from the presence of microflora, brewed malt is passed through a hermetic chiller for cooling.
3. It is better to install a filtration system with an automatic siphon - a telescopic system with an auto-suction, which increases the quality of beer and saves your time and effort required for manual filtration.
4. Pay attention to the wort aeration system, because after cooking it leaves very little oxygen, which is so necessary to activate fermentation.If the design does not have such a device, then you need to buy a compressor yourself for air supply, similar in type, which is often used for aquariums.

You only need to choose breweries that have been tested by time; today the market is flooded with copies from China, which are cheaper but have a dubious reputation.

Review of the best models

Bavaria Home Brewery 30 L

• Material: AISI 304 stainless steel
• Height: 470 mm
• Boiler: diameter 350 mm, volume - 30 l
• TEN: on 2,5 kW
• Malt weight: 7 kg
• Remembering recipes: up to 8 options
• Weight without filling: 16 kg
• Cooking time: 4-5 hours
• Warranty: One Year

Bavaria Brewery 50 L

• Material: food stainless steel
• Dimensions: 400x400x500 mm
• Boiler: diameter 400 mm, volume - 50 l
• Connection: 220V
• Set of sieves: 1x0.5 mm and 1x3 mm
• Total weight: 13 kg (empty)
• Cooking time: 5 hours
• Warranty: 12 months

A Bavaria brewery with the same parameters is produced, but it is possible to control the process via a Wi-Fi system.

Brewery Bavaria 70 l

• Purpose: Grain Brewery
• Dimensions: 450x450x570 mm
• Boiler capacity: 70 L
• TEN: 1x1.5 plus 1x2.5 kW
• Wort volume: 50 L in one working cycle
• Thickness: boiler walls - at least 1.2 mm, bottom - 1 cm
• Empty weight: 15.5 kg
• Cooking time: no more than 5 hours
• Warranty: One Year

Beer Zavodik 2016 Mini

• Material: food grade plastic
• Dimensions: 410x410x410 mm
• Capacity: diameter 410 mm, volume - 33 l
• Options: beer mix, carbonation
• Type of extract: liquid
• Empty weight: 4.5 kg
• Minimum cooking time: from 21 days
• Additional information: disinfectant - Deochlor, dextrose (monosaccharide) - 1.25 kg

Ss Brewtech Chronical 7 Gallon

• Material: food grade steel
• Dimensions: 360x360x840 mm
• Capacity: diameter 360 mm, volume - 26 l
• Carbonization: Natural
• Type of extract: dry
• Cover fastening: 6 spring clips
• Pressure: up to 5 PSI, can be poured directly into kegs

findings

If you compare the Bavaria breweries with others, then this is the best offer on the domestic Russian market, foreign counterparts are 40% more expensive or they are much worse in technical specifications. Specialists in brewing, with vast experience and enormous work experience, say that there is no alternative to such units today.

Such foreign products are sold at a price of 100 thousand, and other domestic products are not much different from an ordinary pan in which some home craftsmen brew something remotely resembling beer.