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General Discussions => Brewing Communities => Belfast Homebrewers => Topic started by: jonnycampbell on October 17, 2013, 02:50:25 PM

Title: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: jonnycampbell on October 17, 2013, 02:50:25 PM
Hi everyone,

I'm Jonny. About a month ago me and five other guys launched a project on Kickstarter (http://kck.st/1b2e7xb (http://kck.st/1b2e7xb)) called Brewbot. It's a self-contained, self-monitoring brewing appliance that is controlled and monitored by a smartphone. It's primarily aimed at amateurs, pubs and restaurants that want to break into craft beers, technology companies and start-ups, and breweries that want to run pilot brews of new beers.

We are 92% of the way towards our target and the campaign will be ending on Tuesday. We'll be taking Brewbot along to the Hudson Bar whether we meet the target or not and it would be great to see you there to chat over a pint! Here's a link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/523958761029488/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/523958761029488/)

Jonny
Title: Re: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: sub82 on October 17, 2013, 10:57:16 PM
Good luck man - looks really interesting!
Title: Re: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: @geterbrewed on October 19, 2013, 11:07:02 PM
Goodluck Jonny, hope it goes well for you
Title: Re: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: Bazza on October 20, 2013, 12:59:50 AM
Nice going Jonny. I believe you reached your goal, so congratulations & all the best.

-Barry

We are edging ever closer to sex robots, who pretend to like stuff you like :)
Title: Re: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: Quiet_Man on October 20, 2013, 08:45:04 AM
Yeah Johnny - congratulations to you and Chris on making your target!

I heard you guys were recently on a US Road Trip visiting craft brewers. Care to share some of your experiences?
Title: Re: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: Bill_00 on October 21, 2013, 08:49:01 AM
A very pretty piece of kit. Hopefully a few bars in town pick one up
Title: Re: Hello from Brewbot
Post by: jonnycampbell on October 22, 2013, 01:29:57 PM
Thanks very much for all the support, guys. We hit our target on Friday. We're over the moon! It would be great to get everyone in a room at some point to show you how Brewbot works.

Yeah, we were in Portland, Oregon and San Francisco. We visited a lot of breweries, we stopped by Ninkasi, Hopworks Urban, Deschutes, Cascade, Hair of the Dog, Green Dragon, Anchor and a few others. We visited many tap houses and bars, including Mikkeller, Bailey's Taproom and others. We missed out getting to Russian River unfortunately.

The only brewery we actually toured was Ninkasi (http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/) and Chris had a chance to see behind-the-scenes at Anchor.