Abstract
There is no firm definition of a microbrewery; many UK micros are sized to brew either 16 or 40 hectolitres (hl) - 10 or 25 barrels - at a time, but others are 80hl or more and some are as small as 4hl (400 litres). At around 100-200 litres, the name nanobrewery is often preferred. Below 50 litres the term picobrewery has come into vogue. There are a few commercial nanobreweries, but brewkits this size are more often used for pilot and test brews. The reason is simply the efficiency of scale: a 10-hectolitre brewery produces 10 times more saleable product per brew than a 100-litre unit, but operating and cleaning it does not normally require ten times as much work. This could change with the coming of automated picobreweries. At this scale, much of the cleaning can be done using a normal dishwasher, yet each brew can yield a unique product for a novelty-hungry audience. For example, the 25-litre Brewbot is targeted at bars wanting their own unique beers as well as at home brewers.
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