[IBU] Automated home beer brewing machine and method

[Becker, Steven]

If you were hoping to get that patent your to late.  No product
available as of yet but I can only imagine that this will be on Wal-Mart
shelves in the near future.  

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6032571&id=L8cDAAAAEBAJ&dq=603257
1

Abstract
An automated home beer brewing machine and method makes beer in a single
vessel under automatic control. The machine and method allows making of
wort for beer without requiring apparatus to be sanitized, without
boiling the wort, without the use of a traditional water-filled
fermentation lock, and without using a wort chiller or ice-packing of a
brewing pot. The inventive single-vessel automated brewing operation
allows the user to load ingredients, conduct a grain-steeping if
desired, and then automatically carries out the rest of the brewing
process in a single vessel, until summoning the user days later to
sugar-prime and bottle the beer. Thus, the user is required to provide
much less time and labor than conventional home beer brewing, and the
invention also frees the home-hobby brewer of much of the current art
traditionally attached to home brewing.

Patent number: 6032571
Filing date: Oct 19, 1998
Issue date: Mar 7, 2000
Inventors: Brad Brous, Curt N. Torgerson, Terry Dubson, Craig A. Wright


Current U.S. Classification
992/772; 99348; 366/249

International Classification
C12C 1310
 
Cheers!

Steve Becker

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