This gadget oven brews perfect pints of craft beer at home

Simply place the pre-packaged PicoPak into the oven and the Pico will HOPS to it

THIS beer brewing gadget oven brings the boozer to your home.

 

Britons could soon be brewing batches of craft beer in their home, thanks to a nifty new automatic home-brew gadget.

Dubbed the Pico, this sleek new brewing appliance allows anyone to make a tasty professional quality beverage.

 

Brewing promises to be easy – beer lovers simply pour in one of the pre-packaged ingredients – called PicoPaks – then add water to the machine.

The Pico takes just two hours to brew. After the keg has cooled, users only need to add yeast and set it aside for five to seven days to ferment.

And best of all, the firm has a working prototype of the cool beer-based oven – unlike some recent high profile crowd-funded gizmos.

 

Dials and controls on the gadget oven allows users to customise the flavour of the brew and alcohol content to put together their own brand of beer.

Each PicoPak brew creates a five litre mini-keg of beer, which can be kept in the fridge ready for when you fancy a tipple.

Pico has already signed-up some 50 of the world's most interesting craft breweries from Boston to Beijing to supply ingredients to home brewers.

The gadget brew brewer is being funded on Kickstarter, where it has already smashed its initial $200,000 target.

 

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Some 50 of the world's most interesting craft breweries are already putting together custom PicoPaks

In just one day the machine has been handed $312,819 – some £204,000 – in finding from 517 beer-loving backers.

During the initial round of online funding, Pico prices start from $499 (some £300) which includes one PicoPak.

Speaking about the project, the creators of the Pico said: "We started PicoBrew in 2010 to pursue the vision of enabling craft brewing at home leveraging new smart appliances in the same way the automatic espresso maker has enabled home espresso production.

"It's taken several hundred test batches of beer and many man-years of effort, but we are now a month away from EVT samples and on track for production early next year."

• Pico is currently being funded on KickStarter