Mybeerbuzz .com Highlights The Pinter Homebrew System (Review)

I’ve been enjoying good beers for decades, and I’ve been involved with our local homebrewers for almost as long. I’m here to say that most every homebrew I’ve tried from our local clubs has been really good…and whether it’s a chocolate stout or a hop-forward double IPA, they’ve all been very tasty beers.

You may be asking yourself at this point why I’m not an avid homebrewer as well…and the answer is complicated. By saying that the answer is complicated, what I actually mean is that homebrewing itself can be complicated. First off, there is a laundry list of equipment to buy, followed by all sorts of ingredients and then followed by techniques that take time to learn and ingredients wasted on bad batches.

This is where Pinter comes in. Now you may be asking yourself what is Pinter? and the answer (like the brewing system) is simple. Pinter is a new homebrewing system designed to take the cost, technique and ingredient costs out of the equation.  As Pinter puts it, “The Pinter [Pint-er]: precision-engineered technology for anyone to enjoy 12 pints of exceptional quality Fresh Beer at home. Made by you, designed to share. Take the Pinter, add the brewing ingredients, refrigerate for conditioning, and in a matter of days enjoy award-winning, sustainable Fresh Beer. A revolutionary beer experience, with you at the heart.”

The Pinter looks like a small (and modern) beer keg. It measures about 14-inches by 10-inches and weighs just over 6-pounds empty. The unit comes in several colors like red, blue and dark gray and it is designed to make homebrewing easy, reliable, simple and best of all fun.

Pinter comes with a “Pinter Pack” which includes the ingredients necessary to make beer (fresh press, brewing yeast, purifier…) and you can buy additional Pinter packs to make lagers, stouts, bitters, session IPAs, double IPAs, Hefeweizen wheat beers and even hard apple cider. The packs cost between $25.99 and $31.99 and there is even a subscription service available to keep the beer flowing at a discounted price. If that’s not enough fun, Pinter Packs for certain beer styles will include The Hopper (see photo below); a patent-pending technology allowing you to enjoy freshly-hopped beer.

From there the brewing process is actually easy. Add your Pinter Pack ingredients and water to the Pinter and walk away for 4 to 7 days depending on the beer you’re brewing. From there, the Pinter simply goes into your refrigerator for about 3-days as the beer conditions. Then finally, you serve the beer directly from the Pinter with the included tap attachment. The beer remains cold in your refrigerator and is good for about 30-days, assuming you don’t finish all twelve pints before that (and you will).

Naturally you’re curious how hard it was to brew beer in the Pinter and more importantly, how good the resulting beer is.  I brewed a Yeastie Boys Bigmouth Remixed Session IPA and it was really easy. Add the ingredients of the Pinter Kit, add water, and wait about a week. Then move the Pinter to the refrigerator and wait a few days while the beer conditions…then drink the beers. It was that easy to brew a beer…and after tasting the resulting beer I was even more impressed. The session IPA was bright and citrusy with an easy drinking medium mouthfeel. The carbonation level was solid and the beer tasted just like a draft beer you’d find a your local beer bar. The Pinter Kit made about 12 pints and they were as good at the end of the 12-pints as they were in the beginning.

Overall I’m excited to say that the Pinter is an affordable, reliable and fun way to brew beer at home. The selection of beer styles and simplicity of the brewing process makes the Pinter a great device for home brewers and an exception gift for any beer lover. In the end it was easy to brew beer and the resulting beer was really good…so get out there and try the Pinter for yourself…and when you do try it, be sure to let us know what YOU think.  zzubreebym