Automated beer brewing system with vessel for brewing and fermenting
AssigneePicoBrew, Inc.
InventorsWilliam H. Mitchell, James B. Mitchell, Avi R. Geiger
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Abstract
A beer making system may use a detachable vessel to contain liquid during the mashing and boiling steps, and may also be used during the fermentation steps of beer making. The beer making system may recirculate liquid through the vessel, then select between several flow paths during the beer making process. A removable reservoir system having a grain reservoir and several hops or adjunct reservoirs may be selected as a flow path, as well as a bypass flow path. A programmable controller may cause liquid to recirculate through a heater and one of the various flow paths, the sequence, timing, and temperature profile of which are defined in a recipe for a particular beer.
Claims15
A brewing device comprising:
- an input connection to a liquid sump;
- an output connection to said liquid sump;
- a heat source;
- a first recirculating pump;
- at least two steeping reservoirs;
- a reservoir selecting mechanism connected to said at least two steeping reservoirs and having a programmable changing mechanism to switch liquid flow between said at least two steeping reservoirs;
- a piping system connecting said input connection, said first recirculating pump, said heat source, and said reservoir selecting mechanism, and said output connection to form a recirculating flow path;
- a programmable controller having a processor, said programmable controller connected to said heat source, said first recirculating pump, and said reservoir selecting mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.