Among the whole variety of beer products, it is difficult to find beer that does not contain preservatives. However, you can take live beer. However, the price for it is quite high, and not everyone can buy such a high-quality product. In addition, when purchasing beer in a store, it is impossible to control its real composition and the production process itself.
The attention of everyone who wants to drink only natural beer made from water, hops and malt is presented to the Bavaria brewery, which allows you to brew a foamy drink right at home. Read more about this device in our article.
Overview of the Bavaria Brewery
Bavaria is a brewery designed to make beer at home, as well as in small bars, cafes and restaurants.
Externally, the brewery is a fairly compact tank of elongated shape, which is installed directly on the table. All parts of the device for making beer are made of stainless steel with a mirror surface. The top of the brewing tank is closed with a lid. Also on the outside of the boiler there is a small crane for draining the wort and a control unit for installing programs.
The brewery has a working cycle of 4 to 5 hours. Its duration is influenced by the number and size of pauses, but not the volume of the brewery.
The lineup
There are 3 models of these breweries:
- Bavaria 30 L This model is ideal for those who are just starting to brew beer on their own. In one production cycle, you can get up to 10 liters of foamy drink. Per day, the performance of this model will be 40 liters.
- Brewery with a boiler capacity of 50 liters. It allows you to get up to 30 liters of foamy drink in 4-5 hours of work, that is, in one production cycle. This model is the most popular among domestic buyers.
- Bavaria Brewery with a capacity of 70 liters. It is designed to receive 50 liters of beer per cycle and 200 liters per day. The presented model is ideal for commercial use.
Brewery Options
The Bavaria brewery kit includes:
- Cooking boiler. It is intended directly for wort cooking. It consists of a cover, a stud for holding the mash tank, a crane for the finished wort, a heating element, a removable electric pump, a control unit, an electric wire with a plug.
- A mash tank allows you to load up to 7 kg of malt (with a volume of 30 l).
- Pressure plate with bolt and screw for fixing the tank.
- Set of sieves for mash tank.
- Instruction
- Book of recipes.
The brewery control unit allows you to program up to 8 recipes and set up to 5 pauses in each of them. Its advantage is that even with a power outage, the brewery will resume operation from the moment the stop occurred.
Additionally, a chiller is purchased, which is designed to cool brewed beer wort.
home brewery Bavaria is produced in Russia. Manufacturer's warranty is 12 months from the date of purchase.
Device advantages
The following advantages of the Bavaria brewery can be noted:
- low cost and high quality of products - cheaper and better than store beer;
- natural composition - absolutely no chemistry is used in the manufacture of a foamy drink;
- the ability to produce not only beer, but also several types of other malt drinks;
- automatic production mode with the ability to switch to manual control;
- high productivity - up to four cooking cycles per day;
- European build quality;
- affordable price.
Owners of such an apparatus can brew beer according to German recipes in a cozy home environment.
Bavaria Home Brewery: how to use
With this device, beer can be prepared in just a few steps:
- Pour water into the brewery.
- Choose a programmed recipe or create your own.
- Start the recipe by clicking the appropriate button.
- The Bavaria brewery will start working automatically, announcing with a sound signal when you need to load malt, get it, add hops, cool, drain the prepared wort.
- The boiled wort must be transferred to a sterile container and left to ferment for several days or weeks.
- After the specified time, you can enjoy the taste of home-made beer made with your own hands.
Making a dark drink at home
To properly brew a foamy drink at home, you will need instructions for its preparation. A special book is also attached to it, which presents various beer recipes for the Bavaria brewery.
To prepare
dark beer in a 50 ml device you will need the following ingredients:
- 35 l of purified water (from the tap does not fit);
- 5 kg of ordinary light malt;
- 1 kg of roasted malt (only for dark beer);
- 1 kg of oatmeal (to give the beer a creamy taste);
- 70 g of hops;
- 11 g brewer's yeast (dry).
Before loading the malt into the brewery, it needs to be crushed, but not to the state of flour, but a little larger. To do this, you need a special mill.
Preparation of the drink begins with the installation of the program. First of all, it is necessary to set the temperature of the malt filling. According to this recipe, it will be 50 degrees. Then you can pour water into the unit, after which you still need to establish brewing pauses. There are only four of them. The first pause - protein - lasting 10 minutes at a temperature of 52 degrees; the second and third - saccharification (the duration of both pauses is 30 minutes at a temperature of 62 and 72 degrees, respectively); the third - mesh-out - lasts 10 minutes at a temperature of 78 degrees.
When all the pauses are set, it is necessary to pour the crushed malt (light fried) and oat groats into the mash tank and start the brewery by pressing the corresponding button on the control unit. Now it remains to wait for the device signal about the need to add a new ingredient.
The total brewing time is 4-5 hours. After this, the wort is poured into a sterile container treated with iodine and left to ferment for about two weeks. The whole process is fully automated, and the device informs about the need to download the next ingredient with a sound signal.
Brewery Recipes
The special recipe book, which is included with the brewery, offers different options for preparing a foamy drink. This facilitates the cooking process, since there is clear information about what ingredients and in what quantity will be needed, how many pauses will be needed, and after what period of time the wort, hops and brewer's yeast are filled.
The book presents the recipes of the Bavaria brewery, according to which it is proposed to prepare ordinary, live and
wheat beer, ale, kvass or mead. Each time you can surprise your friends with new drinks, brewed only from natural ingredients.
Home brewery Bavaria: reviews
All beer lovers who have already appreciated the advantages of the home appliance, leave mostly positive reviews about the results of its work. So, they noted that the brewery has a roomy brewing kettle and a silent high-quality pump, as well as an automation unit with convenient control and the ability to stop the brewing process if necessary, just press a pause. In general, the design looks strong and reliable, it is made of food-grade stainless steel and has sufficient performance. A model of 10 liters is enough to fully provide yourself with beer and even treat friends.
Bavaria Brewery, reviews of which, as a rule, are positive, currently does not have a worthy alternative in this price category. German breweries of a similar type, produced in Germany, are 30-40% more expensive.
Device cost
A home brewery with a boiler volume of 30 liters and a capacity of 10 liters will cost about 50 thousand rubles. However, in some stores you can also find a model with a discount of 10-20%. Bavaria Brewery with a brewing boiler of 50 liters, which produces up to 30 liters of finished wort per cycle, costs 10 thousand rubles more than the previous model, that is, about 60 thousand rubles. For a large brewery that can be used for commercial purposes, a price of 80 thousand rubles is set. The performance of such a device, intended for the preparation of a foamy drink, is at least 200 liters per day.