Brewing
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For lots of homes, making a pot of joe is the most important part of every morning. But real snobs, or fans of a certain type of coffee, have always struggled to find the tools to brew the perfect cup at home. A team based out of New Mexico is hoping to change that with the PERK Brew.
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ScienceA few years ago, Stanford professor Li Liu discovered a beer recipe, and now her students have brewed it for the first time. What’s the big deal? This recipe is over 5,000 years old, and represents the earliest direct evidence of beer-brewing in China. The results were reportedly mixed.
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Homebrewing alcohol can be fun and cheap, but for what it saves in cash it can drain in time and effort. Alchema aims to simplify the process with the help of a user-friendly smart cider homebrewer and an app that provides clear instructions, recipes, and tips for creating your own concoctions.
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Joining the Pico brewer on the crowdfunding circuit, the MiniBrew is another all-in-one countertop brewing system that makes brewing beer nearly as easy (though more time-consuming overall) as brewing coffee.
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Guinness, the Irish stout, is famously dark with a creamy head. It is also increasingly green. A newly-opened Guinness brewhouse has been awarded LEED Platinum certification. Brewhouse No. 4 at St. James’s Gate in Ireland was also awarded BREEAM Outstanding certification last year.
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BodyBrew has redesigned its Hourglass cold brew coffee maker to relaunch it as the Bod. Aimed at coffee aficionados who don’t mind the slow process it involves to get the perfect coffee extract, the revamped unit features a Bean Kanteen, is 15 percent more efficient and has a shorter body.
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Craftea is a high-tech tea maker designed to accelerate the flavor extraction process. It features the company's proprietary Vortex technology that consists of a stirrer designed to intensify fusion and avoid boil-overs. Users can also save brew settings to repeat the perfect cuppa.
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If not ourselves, we all know someone that claims to be useless until they've had that first mouthful of coffee in the morning. The Barisiuer is an elegantly designed alarm clock that starts your day with a freshly-brewed cup of joe before you even get out of bed.
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Invergo is a new pour-over automatic coffeemaker. It features a patent-pending technology that ensures coffee grounds are evenly saturated and extracted. A computerized system ensures temperature remains even during the brewing process and the system allows a range of servings.
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As any serious tea-drinker knows, there's only a small window of time in which brewed tea is at its best. The BKON company, however, is aiming to change that. Its BKON Craft Brewer is designed to produce perfectly-brewed cups of tea on demand.
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Some people sure like their Keurig coffee brewers, although for every cup of java that's made, another coffee mix-containing "K-Cup" is used and disposed of. Ekobrew's Stainless Steel Elite K-Cup, however, can be refilled with ground coffee and used over and over.
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Inventor Chic Kelty has created a new coffee-making device that improves on the French press and pouring-over methods. Immerset uses an insulated chamber, an adjustable control valve, and a brew chamber made of impact-resistant plastic and stainless steel.
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