# What I want for Christmas

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 24, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789 "2007-10-24T03:25:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789/1 "2007-10-24T03:25:28Z")

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[I want this toy for Christmas.](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/how-it-works/how-the-worlds-first-all+in+one-beer-machine-works-314304.php)😃

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789/2 "2007-10-24T04:14:14Z")

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I have to know–how did you discover that?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789/3 "2007-10-24T04:55:52Z")

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[QUOTE=samclem]  
I have to know–how did you discover that?  
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A friend of mine who built his own beer machine emailed it to me.

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789/4 "2007-10-24T05:29:52Z")

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I’d like a relationship, a nice start on my upcoming 4-pack, and more time to play all these videogames I have!

And umm… that beer machine thingermajigger would be cool too 😃

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789/5 "2007-10-24T05:34:25Z")

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Mmm, beer.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-want-for-christmas/423789/6 "2007-10-24T10:50:54Z")

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Like the comments say, it’s an average, well-built homebrewing rig. I’ve seen better. They’re only doing extract brewing it looks like, which is fine but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go to the expense involved in a rig like this without doing all-grain, which you’d need more gear and a bigger cart for. You can do extract or extract-plus-grains brewing on your kitchen stove, for heaven’s sake - use a smaller pot, and mix it into the remaining volume of cold water after the batch is done.

I guess the “all-in-one” bit is the odd choice of building their tap system into this cart - it might “save room” but most people don’t like having their whole brewing rig at their party and now it’s not portable to anyone else’s party unless they have a separate tap for those situations. I’d call it an oddball system created for novelty but not so much for utility.