Smokin-It 3D
Weber Kettle with an SNS
Masterbuilt kettle that I call the $30 wonder grill
Bullet by Bull Grills gasser
Anova WiFi sous vide machine
Thermoworks Thermapen and Chef Alarm
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
RonB I am incredulous in looking at the Pinter description. And as someone else says - it looks entirely too easy. That is because it IS too easy. So many steps missing:
Sanitization (tap water is not sterile)
Boiling to both sanitize and add hops and such
Racking out of the fermenter to bottle or keg - instead they have you just stick the entire thing in the fridge, and drink all that yeasty goodness.
My best guess is that you are mixing tap water with some pre-hopped dry or liquid extract, skipping the boil, and let it ferment into an alcoholic beverage. But not a GOOD beverage, which is the only point of pursuing making your own beer. It will be alcohol with lots of off flavors that will get worse and worse over the life of the 12 glass of "beer" in that little keg in your fridge.
I was expecting something else. This is pretty pitiful, and I would not waste my time. If I wanted to brew beer easy, I would go to Northern Brewer or Morebeer and look at what it takes to do beer with one of their extract kits. Those can be done on the stovetop at least, and will make decent beer if you are careful about sanitization and such.
Heck. Even those old Mr. Beer kits from the 90's - and they still make them I think - are lightyears ahead of this Pinter thing.
Not trying to be a beer snob. Just trying to keep anyone from wasting their time and money on something that is almost comically silly.
I've been brewing for 15-20 years now, but went from May 2025 to January 2026 without brewing, and with all 4 taps empty. Just too much going on with life, and lack of motivation. Just getting back into it, and got my first keg since May carbonating right now (an oatmeal stout).
Last edited by jfmorris; January 27, 2026, 01:51 PM.
As someone who used to homebrew one of my worst batches got skunked because of poor sanitation on our part. Needless to say gym socks soaked in dishwater would have tasted better. I’m with jfmorris, can’t skimp on sanitizing. Some things are worth the effort
here to offer one more "been brewing a while" voice, and this looks like it will produce poor quality beer. plus they want to lock you into a subscription plan so there's an immediate red flag.
Man, I did the homebrew thing back in the 90's, but I never got what I considered "beer" out of it. Sure, you could taste the malt, the barley, the yeast, but never coalesced into "beer". This thing looks pretty mickey mouse to me, and the Mr Beer thing was my intro to brewing.
here to offer one more "been brewing a while" voice, and this looks like it will produce poor quality beer. plus they want to lock you into a subscription plan so there's an immediate red flag.
It really is. It reminds of me of the degenerate state of HP inkjet printers now.....printers sold below cost and you're locked in to a monthly subscription of horrendous overprices, poor-quality ink.
Oh yeah. I used to be in the printer industry, back in the 90's, and HP had a racket back then. My parents had an Epson inkjet that lasted for 15 years, and I told my mom to replace it with one of the new Ecotank models - maybe $179 at Sam's. My dad forced her into an HP at Costco because it was half the price. But - they are on a monthly ink subscription now, that sends out cartridges every so often.
I print maybe one sheet of paper a year. Every time I do, I have to go find the right cable, charge the laptop, then run the head cleaning function a couple times. It takes about half an hour!
Mosca inkjets are no good for low volume or infrequent printing, as you've seen. Better off with the cheapest $100 laser printer you can find (I have a Brother), as those don't have the issues with ink drying up and clogging printheads.
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