KegSmart

[Beer-lord]

I must be getting too old because this just doesn't appeal to me at all.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/17 ... =discovery

Why must everything that's already working, be brought into the tech world?

[Inkleg]

Me either, I'm just pouring from picnic taps and make a hash mark on the relevant post-it note above the keezer. Works in my flip phone world.

[RickBeer]

The amazing thing with most of these Kickstarter-type programs is that people actually fund them. I am creating one where I am trying to gain five pounds by drinking beer, I need to raise $1 million to do so.

[Kealia]

I thought the name PicoBrew sounded familiar.

I'm going to pass as well. Not interested in this either.

[John Sand]

Me either, I'm just pouring from picnic taps and make a hash mark on the relevant post-it note above the keezer. Works in my flip phone world.

I've only drained one keg. But I knew what was in it. And I knew it was empty when it kicked.
Ink, I really do use a flip phone. And I have no plans of changing it. I use it as a phone. I know that sounds crazy. I do like to joke by pulling it out when everyone is talking smart phones and say "Kirk to Enterprise". But it only gets a laugh if you remember the 70s. (I know Star Trek was in the 60s. But re-runs)

[FedoraDave]

No offense to anyone who might be intrigued by this, or think it's a great idea, but it just strikes me as a product that would appeal primarily to hipster beer snobs. Why do I have to know the grain bill or the IBU of what's in my keg? Why should anyone else care? Or if they do, I can pull out my recipe notebook and tell them. Yeah, I keep a 3-ring binder with my recipes in it, even though I also use BrewToad to formulate and save them, too.

Are they trying to appeal to homebrewers who want to pretend they're Big-Boy Brewers? I really don't get it. I've got a Dri-Erase board on which I make hash marks to know how many pints I've drawn, and I've got clear plastic photo frames stuck near the taps to hold a label and let me know what's in that keg.

Keep your high-tech toys. When the Technological Apocalypse occurs (and it will...oh yes, it will), I'll still be able to make beer the way it's been made for thousands of years. And I will be a god among men.

[jimjohson]

I agree and also keep a notebook. On another site I said if the apocalypse comes I got a marketable skill. After like 6 months they'll be dying for a brew.

[DaYooper]

I too have a phone that makes phone calls. I think it texts so I am told, and takes really bad pictures....

But I digress. For 1-2 taps, it seems pretty useless to me other than a toy to show how much money you have to piss away to other brewing friends, who probably dont laugh to your face since you are letting them drink your free beer. I know what is in my kegs so dont need to spend $$$ to remind me, and if I am that hammered I am probably not drinking beer that night anyway. Half the fun is having a chalkboard, and for those who usually keep a standard house beer or two in rotation many times will make or have made a custom pull. Im sure my wife wouldnt look at it as her only concern is it is not a porter or stout, but as I bottle those it does no good there. Plus, she has learned that a couple of weeks into the fresh keg it is good to lift it to judge the status. I am really surprised at the amount of funding they have received for a corny system, and makes me think "now why the hell didnt I think of that?"