I have received my shipping numbers and items are in transit, you should have received notification by now. If not he may not have gotten them all inspected and shipped this past weekend. His garage was packed tight with them all this time around.
If you have been in the market for a specific Pico C/S/Pro recipe crafter look no further. I've said I had a working profile available for BrewCrafter, but since I haven't gotten traction getting that merged and released in the "official beta crafter" experience why not make it available in an "unofficial alpha/beta crafter.
Anyways I've done just that with a dev pipeline including my fixes and updates that were purposed to BrewCrafter at crafter.pilotbatchbrewing.com feel free to give this "alpha/beta preview" a spin. No clue when these new features (PicoFree / PicoPak recipe, newly fixed email integration and more coming) will get merged into the "official beta crafter" experience.
Added a few recipes and a very basic inventory beer xml (technically a recipe) users can use to shortcut building a db on your deployment of brewcrafter. If anyone is interested, it can be viewed here: BrewCrafter 2
I actually will be trying to get rid of some of my original Picobrew kegs. I only need to keep 3 of them
Just picked up a Pico Pro/S to play around with. Looks like I shouldn't expect the Pico Free to open for purchase again. Has anyone come up with another option or am I lookup at tedious manual brews?
I also noticed the cart was open again for any extras, not sure how long that will last this time around.
Cart just closed roughly 2 hours ago... there are a few extras so stay tuned to your emails over the coming week for the announcement to those that subscribed on pico-free.com for when that hits.
Hi Trevor, just dusting off my original Pico from the kick start and fired up the server. I had given it up for junk. I'm late in the game by the looks of it. if you have any spares left over I would be interested in purchasing one.
So I have a second hand pico C and a Picostill. Don't care about the latter and would like to just sell the setup.
If I decided to wade into this mess... Is it worth it? I mean I do small batch all grain, plus I have a Beermkr and also do extract kits.
Is there a way to edit recipes and do automatically?
Small quantity is small.As for doing anything with a still, large quantities allow better cuts. The small quantity of a PicoStill is ???
After tediously making a stainless steel grain bin and using SS perforated, I ended up with too much grain getting into the step filter and clogging. I ended up just putting a bag inside the grain bin. Problem solved. Knowing what I know now. I would not have build it the way I did. It only needs to be a bin (without lid) and a few holes in the bottom. The hops bin just needs to hold 4 different hops in the hops bags.
if you do try and make one don't over complicate it.
Dear Brewers,
So I have decided that I would see about doing another run of Pico-Free Boxes. I have discussed with the manufacturer and it seems that I can get them to produce if can get enough orders. So PRIOR to pulling the trigger, I wanted to see how many people are still looking for Pico-Free boxes. IF YOU ARE STILL INTERESTED, please send an email to the [email protected] with the number of pico-free boxes that you would like to purchase in the SUBJECT line.
As you know the global logistics situation is a little slow right now. I cannot guarantee when they will arrive, but I would guess February, at which point I would ship them all out right away.
Thank you for your interest, and please ignore this message if you are no longer interested. Thanks.
THIS IS A PREORDER, ONCE I MEET MY MOQ I WILL PLACE THE PRODUCT ORDER!
From the time the cart closes, likely before 12/31/2020 it will likely be 3 to 4 months till delivery due to the global supply chain issues.
If I do not meet MOQ, i will refund your payment MINUS about 4% that I loose through the ecommerce site and PayPal.
As always, all additional money that I collect I will donate to charities for children.
https://www.pico-free.com/product/pico-free-buy
December 12, 2021 Update.
OK so I have a chance to make one last order, and I have found a way to ship that wont raise the price too much. That being the case, I have decided to do the order. The price is a little more than previous orders, but that is just the supply chain issues in the world causing freight and raw material costs to rise. But I fear that if I do not order now, I will miss the chance to reorder.
THIS IS LIKELY THE VERY LAST TIME I CAN DO THIS SO PLEASE ORDER IF YOU WANT YOUR PICO-FREE!!!
AS ALWAYS I WILL DONATE ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO CHILDREN'S CHARITIES.
Ender who worked on the software portion of this project has gotten a very generous offer from his company to match all donations made. These donations will be donated to the The Greater Boston Food Bank.
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN for your support of this project!
https://www.pico-free.com/
Just a quick note for everyone interested in this last order of PICO-FREE.
Good News, we have met MOQ, so the order will go in. I will place an initial PO this week to get the order in and production booked in. I can revise the PO if I get more orders, so no issue.
BUT PLEASE NOTE that THE CART WILL CLOSE on SUNDAY THE 19th at midnight CST. ONCE IT CLOSES, I am afraid that there will be NO MORE future orders.
So if you want to be able to do automatically brew on your Pico C, S, or Pro, then please order this week from www.pico-free.com
THANKS AGAIN TO ALL.
@fissionc I've found that after a couple of clean sessions that it is good to do a back to back cleaning. You sometimes would be surprised how much gunk gets on any of the heat exchangers and pumps over time especially if you aren't diligent of doing a HOT rinse immediately after a session run.
A good rule of thumb is to periodically run back to back cleans until the disposal water is near clear and the inline filter no longer contains any grit.
I did tear apart my pumps and was amazed at how gunked up they were, even after religiously cleaning them after brewing. It’s a bit of an adventure but doable. Pay attention, take pictures as you disassemble, or try what Trevor suggests.The pumps likewise can get gunked up. I've found that a hot clean with a pause at a near boiling temp over night can help to loosen things up a bit. Then followed by a full second clean after resuming.
For those that are adventurous you can take apart soak and reassemble, but I wouldn't recommend to people that aren't comfortable with disassembly and reassembly of electronics.
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