Incompetent and unlucky home-brewers rejoice: Australians, confounded by the inexplicable failure of batch after batch of bathwater and bread yeast to yield tasteful beer, decided to automate the process with the Beer Machine 2000. With its self-contained distilling mechanism and one-step process, it promises to make the process as reliable as making coffee. No beakers, tubes, condensers, or any other bubbling madscientisternalia to make your kitchen look like a Meth lab: just throw in a package of "Beer Mix," slop in the water and go.
$190 buys you the beast, which includes a defoamer, carbonation unit, easy-clean main unit, pub-style tap handles for a classier pour, and a free pack of Beer Mix. Each sachet produces about 20 pints, enough to dull the pain of watching Australian television for 4 hours. Order by Dec. 15th to get it to the U.S. or Britain in time for Xmas.
Product Page [Tesora.com.au, via Gizmodo]
