How much beer do you drink? And what does it cost you? Do you prefer live or filtered? ( Archived) (3)

What I'm thinking is constructing a live-beer making machine the size of a fridge that can produce about 10L quality beer per week for the price of a small change.

I want to make a somewhat a joint company for making this "fridge" with some other person/s so it can be produced and marketed the right way in a country like France.

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During the past month I had a good time doing research on the grain malting and beer production methods and I have found that a fridge-size machine (10L/week) will cost as much as a 50-70L machine: 6500$ against 9500$.

So it seems while a small home machine is expensive to be purchased and will get flat for the owner after several years as one is inputting only grain, be barley or wheat, or a combination thereof, oh, and cleared tap water of course - 90% of the final product; a small pub-owned machine will get paid for the investment in an year or so.

The above pricing is based on all stainless steel tubing, valves, pumps tanks, vessels etc. i.e. doing all as of the best practices.

And the preprogrammed microcontroller based beer recipes will be the same for all scales/capacities of this machine and will of course accept modifications by the owner.

Finally I see one great beautiful thing in this kind of a machine - its scalability. Starting small can grow big.

Unfortunately none have shown interest so far and certainly here it's
not a place for such a business ideas and plans to be discussed. Maybe there are special sites or forums for that, which I have to find one day. Not now coz soon I'll be leaving for France.

I'm very keen on tasting a dish of escargots :-).