Sunday, January 07, 2007

Continuous Brewing



The beer fueled genius that defines the bayblab recently came up with the concept of brewing beer as a continuous process instead of the conventional batch method. This would improve productivity and would eliminate a lot of messy steps for the homebrewmaster.
Of course it's all been done before, in 1985.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v3/n5/pdf/nbt0585-467.pdf
Why has this not been made into a kit for easy homebrewing? I lack the engineering skills required to build the contraption, but I would love to engineer some yeast for the process.
Hmmmmmm spent yeast.


2 comments:

Anonymous Coward said...

And for the recipe we have free beer 3.0 !

Kamel said...

Ha ha... I took a chemical engineering course in undergrad and had to design a continuous flow process. Unfortunately I no longer have the plans.