World of Brewie

As we promised in our introduction sequence, besides useful information about the process of finalizing Brewie, we also offer completely useless, but fun infos as well. Now’s the time for a little fun, in the form of numerous random beer facts. Enjoy!

1. At the annual Wife Carrying World Championships held in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.

2. The builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid with a daily ration of beer. Wouldn’t you accept payment carried out in beer?

3. Germany is home to a beer pipeline. Taps in Veltsin-Arena are connected by a 5km tube of beer. How nice it must be to open a tap and drink…. beer.

4. Winston Churchill called the concept of Prohibition "an affront to the whole history of mankind."

5. In the 1990s, the Beer Lovers Party ran candidates in Belarus and Russia.

6. At spas in Europe, you can literally bathe in beer as a physical and mental therapeutic treatment.

7. Beer soup was a common breakfast in medieval Europe.

8. The list of countries by beer cunsumption per capita - surprisingly - isn’t led by Germany. Czeck Republic wins by a mile (148 liters), followed up with Austria (107 liters), Germany (106 liters), Estonia (102 liters) and Poland (98 liters).

9. The oldest known recipe is for a 4,000-year-old beer made by the Sumerians.

10. In Great Britain alone, 93,000 liters of beer are rumored to be lost each year in facial hair. Even though we’re curious about their research methods, we do not want to argue the possibility of it being true.

11. A small Michigan microbrewery turned down a potentially huge endorsement deal with Nickelback in part because they hated the band.

12. Guinness draft has fewer calories than skim milk.

13. Beer commercials in the United States aren't actually allowed to show someone drinking beer.

14. Arthur Guinness signed a 9000-year lease for his beer factory.

Sometimes it is useful to know how your everyday devices work. At least roughly. It’s good to know how your gear-shift moves the gear wheels to achieve the right rpm, what force keeps airplanes in the sky, not allowing them to fall down like a rock, and it’s also good to know how your favorite drink is made. Roughly.

You might have already guessed it, but we’re going to tell you about the making of beer.

How traditional breweries brew beer for centuries: 

Monks boil the malt for some time in order to let sugar and starch excrete. They try to retain enough self-control not to drink all of it before it even becomes beer, because in this phase the drink smells good, and actually tastes sweet because of all the sugar boiled right out of the malt.

After saying ten hail mary’s for their sins of nevertheless drinking it, they continue with adding the hop. The hop is responsible for beer’s bitterness and flavor. Bad news for those poor monks, once again, the wort tastes excellent in this phase too, it’s just not beer. Beer on its way becoming beer.

The next thing to do is to ferment the wort. This is where sugar transforms into alcohol. Basically beer tastes good from the moment it’s started to be boiled until the moment it’s called ready and is quietly smiling at you from a bottle. Also, carbon dioxide is a side effect of sugar becoming alcohol. At the first part of the fermentation carbon dioxide is being let out, and in the second phase - when beer is put in bottles - it’s being held in by the bottle, therefore your beer will have small tickling bubbles. If anything is left from it, now’s the time to drink the rest.

How Brewie brews beer:

Exactly like it’s written above.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that most of you don’t really know what happens to water in order for it to become beer. Fortunately, brewing beer isn’t magic, but it takes a lot of different procedures, fine calculations and a good care to produce a cold one. We would say it’s a fine art, and who wouldn’t want to be called an artist?

We’d like to present Brewie to you. In a few words; Brewie is a machine that brews beer. With a few more words; Brewie is a fully automated brewing machine that not only fits in your kitchen easily (about the size of a microwave) and brews excellent quality beer at an amazingly low price (we’ll get to this later), but also gives you the opportunity to shape beer to your own taste with Brewie’s built-in memory of more than 200 thousand recipes. Did we mention it’s fully automated? Yes? Oh well, sorry then.

We’re a few guys that started to work on a home-brewing machine. Beer is our passion, our hearts - alongside with a lot of work and experience - went into this machine. The goal was to create a machine that allows everyone to brew their own beer with the least possible amount of effort and know-how, yet ends in an unique result adjusted to one’s taste. After months of hard work Brewie was born and we believe we’ve reached the desired goal, there’s no easier, more comfortable way for one to drink their own quality beer. We summon you now, dear readers and potential future Brewie-owners: be the judge of it!

Of course no one judges without having extensive information about the subject, so we will give you weekly updates about Brewie, the current state of finalizing the machine spiced with stories of the team behind it, random beer facts, and a bunch of info completely unrelated to Brewie (the latter is just for our own fun).

Welcome to the world of Brewie!