count2infinity wrote:
I'm not sure why they're trying to sell this slanted at homebrewers, but this would be really cool if it did turn into the keurig of the beer world. Go to the brewery or store, buy a bag of your favorite beer, bring it home and put it in this thing. I don't think this would appeal to someone that's homebrewing and wants to turn to this instead of kegging. The volume just isn't close enough to what it should be for it to replace a kegging system.
Filling it with fresh beer from a brewery is nice, but they are touting this for homebrewers fermenting and carbonating in the bag. There is a big problem with that, how are you going to get rid of the trub and other stuff that falls out of the beer as it clears up. Dispensing from that bag would make for some really cloudy beer.
Still have to deal with shipping and distribution laws, so its not going to make any beer around world available if you have this thing. This thing doesn't make it any easier to circumvent the existing distribution channels.
A better option would be an adapter for the top of a growler that has a way to recharge the CO2 a from one of those little canisters and dispel the O2 to keep the beer fresh in a growler.
Another big flaw with there system is carbonation level in a beer is HIGHLY dependent on temp. You would have to keep these bags chilled or all the Co2 will leave the solution and just blow up the bag. When you pour from the bag you will be getting flat beer because the CO2 isn't dissolved in the beer.