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This automated home brewer deal is perfect for any beer lover

By Jen Allen Published December 19, 2024

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The F1 Automated Home Brewer on a white background. — F1

What’s better than the best cheap beer? Making your own! A fantastic hobby with potentially equally fantastic results, buying an automated home brewer could well make you the favorite gift giver this year. Right now, you can buy the F1 Automated Home Brewer at Amazon for $599. It normally costs $699 so you’re saving $100. That also makes it the lowest price it’s been in a long while. Depending on your location, it should arrive before Christmas too if you have Prime membership. If that all sounds great, you know what to do. However, if you’re not entirely certain, keep reading while we take you through what it has to offer.

Why you should buy the F1 Automated Home Brewer

If you’ve been reading all about how beer is made and decided you want to do it for yourself, the F1 Automated Home Brewer is a great way to do that. Designed to work equally well for beginners and experts, it means you can brew craft beer in just three easy steps. At a time when the future of craft beer is complicated, it’s good to be able to make your own.

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All you need to do is add the beer kit and filtered water into the fermentation keg, before scanning the RFID sticker or selecting the brew type through the on-board menu. From there, simply pour when done. The F1 home beer brewer has auto-temperature control, auto-pressure control, and also provides fast auto cooling. The built-in air pump preserves freshness up to 24 hours if you’re worried about your beer expiring. Helping keep things fresh, it has a CO2 gas cylinder for enhancing carbonation.

Want even more fun tech? You can also use the F1 Automated Home Brewer with the iGulu Brewing App so you can create and monitor brewing stages while using your own brewing recipes. Besides the brewer, you get a tap handle, rubber drip mat, one fermentation keg, keg dispensing tube, and all the extras you need to get started. Think of it as beer 101 for starting out with your new hobby.

The F1 Automated Home Brewer usually costs $699, but right now you can buy it from Amazon for $599, saving $100 off the regular price. This is a great deal for anyone looking to get into home brewing or helping someone else do so.

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