CN114517139A

CN114517139A - Integrated beer machine and brewing control method thereof

Info

Publication number: CN114517139A
Application number: CN202011310799.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴剑; 周枢; 费兆军; 易作为; 冯志群; 安晖; 黄熠
Original assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd; Qingdao Haigao Design and Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd; Qingdao Haigao Design and Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-20
Filing date: 2020-11-20
Publication date: 2022-05-20

Abstract

The invention provides an integrated beer machine and a control mode thereof, wherein the integrated beer machine comprises a brewing machine and a wine taking machine which are communicated with each other, and a cooking box is arranged in an inner cavity of the brewing machine; a disposable grain box is arranged in the cooking box; wherein a first sensing unit is arranged in the disposable cereal box; a second induction unit is arranged in the cooking box; the second sensing unit senses the first sensing unit to obtain material information of the disposable grain box; the second sensing unit is electrically connected with the control unit; the second sensing unit transmits the material information to a control unit of the brewing machine, and the control unit controls the integrated beer brewing machine to enter a brewing process according to the material information.

Description

Integrated beer machine and brewing control method thereof

Technical Field

The invention belongs to self-brewing beer equipment, and particularly relates to a household integrated beer machine and a brewing control method thereof.

Background

The fresh beer is beer containing live yeast and without sterilization and filtration. The beer has high nutritive value and fresh and mellow taste, and is popular with beer lovers.

With the development of electronic technology and information technology, the existing small-sized beer self-brewing equipment still has the defects of large volume, high cost and simple automatic control capability. Different production conditions are required for brewing different beers, and the current equipment lacks intelligent integrated control and cannot meet the requirements of people on high-quality fresh brewing beer.

In addition, in the conventional small-sized beer self-brewing equipment, water, malt and hops are sequentially added into brewing equipment, wort is extracted by heating and stewing, and the wort is fermented to form beer.

In the existing brewing process, a user needs to select a corresponding control program according to different types and proportions of malt, and if the user forgets to select the control program, the subsequent brewing program execution is not matched with the properties of the malt, so that the problems of brewing failure, poor taste and the like are caused.

Disclosure of Invention

The small-sized beer self-brewing equipment solves the problems that the brewing process of the existing small-sized beer self-brewing equipment is not intelligent enough, the brewing failure is easy to cause, the taste is poor and the like.

One of the purposes of the invention is to provide an integrated beer machine, which comprises a brewing machine and a beer taking machine which are communicated with each other, wherein a cooking box is arranged in an inner cavity of the brewing machine; a disposable grain box is arranged in the cooking box; wherein a first sensing unit is arranged in the disposable cereal box; a second induction unit is arranged in the cooking box; the second sensing unit senses the first sensing unit to obtain material information of the disposable cereal box; the second sensing unit is electrically connected with the control unit; the second sensing unit transmits the material information to a control unit of the brewing machine, and the control unit controls the integrated beer brewing machine to enter a brewing process according to the material information.

As an optional technical scheme, the wine brewing machine further comprises a frame, the frame is arranged in the inner cavity, and the second sensing unit is arranged on a middle partition plate of the frame.

As an optional technical solution, the first sensing unit is a first proximity sensor chip, and the first proximity sensor chip includes a storage unit, and the storage unit stores the material information.

As an optional technical solution, the second sensing unit is a second proximity sensor chip, and the second proximity sensor chip is configured to communicate with the first proximity sensor chip to obtain the material information and transmit the material information to the control unit.

As an optional technical scheme, the first sensing unit is a bar code or a two-dimensional code; the second sensing unit is an image reading unit; the image reading unit scans the bar code or the two-dimensional code to obtain the material information and transmits the material information to the control unit.

As an optional technical solution, the outer sides of the first sensing unit and the second sensing unit are respectively coated with a waterproof layer.

As an optional technical solution, a display panel is arranged at the front side of the wine brewing machine, the display panel includes an input module, and the input module is electrically connected to the control unit.

The invention also provides a control method of the integrated beer machine, the integrated beer machine is the integrated beer machine, and the control method comprises the following steps:

s1, putting the disposable grain boxes into a cooking box, and putting the cooking box into a brewing machine;

s2, a second sensing unit in the wine brewing machine identifies a first sensing unit on the disposable grain box, material information is obtained from the first sensing unit and is transmitted to a control unit of the wine brewing machine, and the control unit starts a corresponding wine brewing process according to the material information.

As an optional technical solution, the control method includes:

s3, entering a cooking process, controlling hot water to circulate between the cooking box and the fermentation barrel, and extracting wort;

s4, performing a fermentation process, controlling a fermentation barrel in the wine dispenser to cool, and then adding yeast for fermentation;

s5, filling carbon dioxide gas into the fermentation barrel through a gas filling pipe in the gas filling process;

s6, opening a wine taking faucet in the wine taking machine to take out the beer in the fermentation barrel;

as an optional technical solution, the S2 further includes: controlling a display panel of the brewing machine to display a brewing process; and inputting adjustment information from an input module of the display panel to adjust the brewing process.

Compared with the prior art, the integrated beer machine and the control method thereof provided by the invention have the advantages that the sensing unit is arranged in the integrated beer machine and senses with the sensing unit on the disposable grain box to obtain the material information in the disposable grain box, and the control unit automatically starts the brewing process after obtaining the material information, so that the problems of failed brewing and poor beer taste caused by the fact that a user carelessly selects a proper control program without a mode selection button are avoided. In addition, because the display panel comprises the display module and the input module, a user can modify the wine brewing process in real time through the input module, so that the wine brewing process is more personalized.

The invention is described in detail below with reference to the drawings and specific examples, but the invention is not limited thereto.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an integrated beer machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view along line AA of the integrated beer machine of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the integrated beer machine of FIG. 1 from another perspective.

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a brewer in an integrated beer machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a cooking chamber of the integrated beer machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged schematic view of the rear side of the cooking chamber of fig. 5.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a cereal box in an embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 8 is a schematic view of the cereal box of fig. 7 from another perspective.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of a box for accommodating hops according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to embodiments and accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, in one embodiment of the present invention, an integrated beer machine 100 is provided, which includes a brewer 10 and a beer extractor 20 connected by a pipe, wherein the beer extractor 20 is provided with a beer extracting tap 30 at a side facing a user, and beer in a fermentation vat 202 of the beer extractor 20 can be extracted by opening the beer extracting tap 30.

Wherein, the wine-taking tap 30 is communicated with the discharge hole of the fermentation barrel 202, and the beer flows out from the discharge hole of the fermentation barrel to the wine-taking tap 30.

The wine brewing machine 10 includes a first housing 101 and a frame 102, the frame 102 is disposed in an inner cavity 103 of the first housing 101 and divides the inner cavity 103 into a bottom chamber 1031, a middle chamber 1033 and a top chamber 1032 from bottom to top. The brewer 10 further includes a heating device 105, a water reservoir 104, and a cooking tank 106, the heating device 105 being disposed in the bottom chamber 1031, the cooking tank 106 being disposed in the middle chamber 1033, and the water reservoir 104 being disposed in the top chamber 1032. That is, the heating device 105, the cooking chamber 106 and the water storage tank 104 are stacked in this order from the bottom up.

In this embodiment, a gap 1034 is included between the partition of the frame 102 and the sidewall of the first casing 101, and the gap 1034 is used for arranging the pipeline structure. Preferably, the duct structure is disposed in the rear gap portion 1035 between the rear sidewall 1011 of the first housing 101 and the rear partition 1021 of the frame 102. That is, the piping structure is disposed at the rear side of the integrated beer machine 100, wherein the rear side of the integrated beer machine 100 is a side far from the user.

The pipe structure comprises, for example, a first pipe 51 and a second pipe 52, water in the reservoir 104 is conveyed to the heating device 105 through the first pipe 51, and after the heating device 105 heats the water, the hot water and steam are conveyed to the cooking chamber 106 through the second pipe 52.

The heating device 105 is arranged in the bottom chamber 1031 of the inner cavity 103, the water storage tank 104 is arranged in the top chamber 1032 of the inner cavity 103, and the water in the water storage tank 104 can be controlled to flow towards the heating device 105 only by arranging a switch valve at the water outlet and/or the water inlet of the first pipeline 51, so that the water in the water storage tank 104 can automatically flow to the heating device 105 under the action of gravity, other power devices are not required to be additionally arranged to extract the water in the water storage tank 104 and inject the water into the heating device 105, and the design purpose of miniaturization of the integrated beer machine 100 is met.

Furthermore, the heating means 105 is arranged in the bottom chamber 1031 of the inner chamber 103, below the cooking chamber 106, and the heat generated when it heats the water flows towards the cooking chamber 106 above it, which can be used to heat the air in the intermediate chamber 1033 in which the cooking chamber 106 is located, thereby achieving the purpose of keeping the temperature of the cooking chamber 106 and heating it, so that the wort extraction efficiency of the cooking chamber 106 is increased.

The heating device 105, the cooking box 106 and the water storage tank 104 are reasonably arranged in the height direction of the brewing machine, and the design purpose of miniaturization of the integrated beer machine 100 is also met.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the water storage tank 104 may be connected to an external water source through a water adding pipe disposed in the back clearance portion 1035, and water is automatically added to the water storage tank 104 after the water is injected into the heating device 105 through program control.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the heating device 105 is, for example, a boiler.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the frame 102 further includes a middle partition 1022, the middle partition 1022 is disposed below the water storage tank 104, and a first water filling port (not shown) and a second water filling port (not shown) extend from the middle partition 1022 toward the top of the cooking chamber 106, wherein the first water filling port and the second water filling port are respectively communicated with the outlet of the second pipeline 52, the first water filling port and the second water filling port are connected with the outlet of the second pipeline 52 through a three-way valve, and the three-way valve enables the outlet of the second pipeline 52 to be communicated with one of the first water filling port and the second water filling port. That is, the hot water and the steam generated by the heating device 105 pass through the second pipe 52 and are injected into different regions of the cooking chamber 106 through the first water injection port or the second water injection port.

The heights of the first and second water injection ports protruding from the middle partition 1022 toward the surface of the cooking chamber 106 are not too high, so that the problem of difficulty in assembly due to interference between the cover 1062 (as shown in fig. 5) on the upper side of the cooking chamber 106 and the first and second water injection ports during the assembly of the cooking chamber 106 to the middle chamber 1033 can be avoided.

It should be noted that the number of the first filling port and the second filling port may be one or more, and the number of the first filling port and the second filling port corresponds to the number of the first opening 1063 and the second opening 1063 on the cover 1062 (as shown in fig. 5) on the top of the cooking chamber 106.

In addition, in the brewing machine 10 of the integrated beer machine 100, the cooking box 106 is detachably assembled in the middle chamber 1033 of the inner cavity 103, and can be detached and cleaned after each brewing process, so that the integrated beer machine is safer and more sanitary.

As shown in fig. 5 to 6, the cooking chamber 106 includes a transparent container 1061 and a transparent cover 1062 covering the top of the container 1061, wherein the container 1061 is used for accommodating a disposable cereal box 107 (shown in fig. 7 and 8) and a box 108 (shown in fig. 9) for accommodating hop packets; preferably, the disposable grain bin 107 is positioned in a front area of the housing 1061 and the hop pellets are positioned in a rear area of the housing 1061 to facilitate the intimate mixing of the first extracted wort and the later extracted hops. The front area of the case 1061 faces the user, and the rear area of the case 1061 faces away from the user.

The cover 1062 is provided with a first opening 1063 and a plurality of second openings 1064, wherein the first opening 1063 corresponds to a first water injection port protruded from the middle partition 1022, that is, the hot water generated in the heating device 105 is injected into the disposable grain box 107 in the front region of the case 1061 through the second pipe 52, the three-way valve, the first water injection port and the first opening 1063; the plurality of second holes 1064 correspond to the plurality of second water filling ports protruded from the middle barrier 1022, that is, the hot water generated in the heating device 105 is filled into the case 108 in the rear region of the case 1061 through the second pipe 52, the three-way valve, the second water filling ports, and the second holes 1064.

As shown in fig. 5, the number of the first holes 1063 is 1, and the number of the second holes 1064 is 4, but not limited thereto.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the box 1061 further includes a rear plate 1069, when the cooking chamber 106 is placed in the wine brewing machine 10, the rear plate 1069 is disposed adjacent to the rear partition 1021 of the frame 102, the rear plate 1069 is disposed adjacent to the bottom plate 1068 of the box 1061 to form a first outlet port 1066, and the mixed solution of wort, wort and hop extract generated in the cooking chamber 106 is pumped out from the first outlet port 1066 through the pump assembly and then transferred to the fermenter 202 of the wine brewing machine 20 through the outflow pipe 53.

As shown in fig. 6, a sealing gasket 1067 is disposed outside the first discharge port 1066, and the sealing gasket 1067 is disposed around the outside of the first discharge port 1066.

As shown in fig. 3, 4 and 6, corresponding to the first discharge port 1066, an interface portion 1023 is disposed on the rear partition 1021 of the frame 20, wherein after the cooking chamber 106 is assembled in the intermediate chamber 1033, a sealing gasket 1067 is inserted into the interface portion 1023, and an inner wall of the interface portion 1023 and the sealing gasket 1067 are in interference fit or tight contact, so as to avoid a problem of liquid leakage when the extracting liquid in the cooking chamber 106 flows out from the first discharge port 1066 and the interface portion 1023.

Preferably, the sealing washer 1067 is an elastic sealing washer made of an elastic material, such as silicon rubber, etc.

Further, the first discharge port 1066 at the rear side of the cooking box 106 and the first feeding port of the fermenter 202 are communicated by other pipeline structures arranged in the rear clearance portion 1035 between the rear side partition 1021 and the rear side wall 1011, and the mixed solution of wort, wort and hop coating extract in the cooking box 106 is pumped out from the first discharge port 1066 through the water and water pump assembly 40 and is fed into the fermenter 202 in the wine dispenser 20 along the pipeline and the first feeding port.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the disposable cereal box 107 is a hollow box structure made of environment-friendly, nontoxic and high-temperature resistant materials, a through hole 1071 (corresponding to the third opening 1071) for injecting hot water and steam is formed in the top of the hollow box structure, a material bag is pre-filled in the hollow box structure, and wort can be extracted by soaking the material bag in high-temperature water.

Wherein, the through hole is preferably round; the raw materials in the material bag are mixed according to a preset weight proportion.

The through hole 1071 (corresponding to the third opening 1071) corresponds to the first opening 1063 of the lid 1062, and hot water from the first water injection port is injected into the disposable grain box 107 through the first opening 1063 and the third opening 1071 to soak the material pack in the disposable grain box 107 and extract wort.

In addition, a plurality of weep holes 1072 are provided in at least one side of the side wall of the hollow box structure in the area of the side wall near the top of the hollow box structure. Preferably, the hollow box structure includes a plurality of interconnected sidewalls each having weep holes 1072, wherein any two adjacent weep holes 1072 are staggered in the row or column direction. The staggered arrangement of weep holes 1072 increases the density of the distribution of weep holes 1072 per unit area and increases the efficiency of the weeping of wort from the bale.

In this embodiment, the hollow box-shaped structure is a tapered structure with a wide top and a narrow bottom.

The disposable cereal box 107 has a slit 1073 at the bottom, and the slit 1073 has a small width, wherein the raw material in the material pack does not flow out of the slit 1073, but the wort is allowed to flow out of the slit 1073.

The slit 1073 is a wave bending structure, and the slit 1073 is arranged along four corners of the bottom.

The middle position of the bottom is also provided with a positioning structure which comprises a boss 1074 and a concave portion 1075, preferably, the boss 1074 is arranged around the outer side of the concave portion 1075, wherein the boss 1074 and the concave portion 1075 are respectively provided with a cutting slit 1073.

The

bosses

1074 and 1075 cooperate with recesses and protrusions, respectively, of a positioning structure on the bottom plate 1068 of the casing 1061 of the boiling box 106, so that the disposable grain box 107 can be positioned in the casing 1061 without displacement or wobbling during wort extraction.

As shown in fig. 9, a box 108 for accommodating the hop packets is further disposed in a rear region of the box 1061 of the cooking box 106, the box 108 includes a hook 1081, the hook 1081 is fastened to an upper edge of a rear side plate 1069 of the box 1061, and a bottom 1084 of the box 108 is suspended above a bottom plate 1068 of the box 1061, or is suspended inside the box 1061 after the box 108 is assembled with the box 1061.

Preferably, the bottom portion 1084 of the box 108 is higher than the upper edge of the first outlet 1066, and since the box 108 is disposed at the rear region of the box 1061, when the bottom portion 1084 is higher than the upper edge of the first outlet 1066 of the rear plate 1069, the wort is not blocked from being drawn out from the first outlet 1066.

In addition, a plurality of escape holes 1085 are provided in the bottom 1084 of the box 108, so that when the bottom 1084 is suspended above the bottom 1068, the hop pellets in the box 108 can be easily escaped from the escape holes 1085 and mixed with the wort.

The inner space of the box 108 is divided into a plurality of accommodating portions 1082 by a plurality of baffles 1083, and a plurality of hop packets can be respectively accommodated in the accommodating portions 1082. In addition, each of the receiving portions 1082 is provided with one or more escape holes 1085 at a region corresponding to the bottom portion 1084. In the case of a plurality of escape apertures 1085, the inner diameter of each escape aperture may be the same or different.

The cover 109 is disposed on the top of the box 108, the cover 109 has a plurality of fourth holes 1091 corresponding to the plurality of receiving portions 1082, and when the cover 109 is disposed on the box 108, each fourth hole 1091 is communicated with a corresponding receiving portion 1082. In addition, the fourth openings 1091 correspond to the second openings 1064 of the cover 1062 of the cooking chamber 106. When the cover 109 is disposed over the case 108, the hot water is injected into the accommodating part 1082 of the case 108 from the second pipe 52, the three-way valve, the second water injection port, the second opening 1064 and the fourth opening 1068.

Preferably, the cover plate 109 is a steel cover plate made of stainless steel material, which can be used to prevent the hop packets from floating in the accommodating portion and overflowing out of the box 108 after water is injected into the box 108.

In addition, an overflow hole 1086 is further disposed on the side wall of the box 108, and when the water level in the box 108 reaches the maximum water level, the excessive hot water overflows from the overflow hole, so that the concentration of the extract solution of the hop packets is relatively constant.

In this embodiment, the box 108 is a plastic transparent box, for example.

As shown in fig. 5 and 8, two opposite side edges of the cover 1062 in the cooking chamber 106 are respectively provided with a recess 1065 near the front portion of the box 108, and the recess 1065 is recessed in a direction away from the box 1061 to form an escape space, so that a user's fingers can be inserted into the recess 1065 to open the cover 1062 from the box 1061.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, in the integrated beer dispenser 100, the beer dispenser 20 includes a second housing 201 and a fermentation vat 202 disposed inside the second housing 201, an outflow pipeline 53 and a water pump assembly 40 are disposed between the fermentation vat 202 and a rear wall 2011 of the second housing 201, and opposite ends of the outflow pipeline 53 are respectively connected to the water pump assembly 40 and a first discharge port 1066 of the cooking chamber 106; wherein outflow pipeline 53 gets into in the second casing 201 through the perforation, coils the top to the fermenter 202 after passing the heat preservation from the front side of back wall 2011 to with the first pan feeding mouth intercommunication on the fermenter 202, water pump assembly 40 starts the back and draws the wort in the cooking chamber 106 of brewing machine 10 to the fermenter 202 in through outflow pipeline 53 and ferment.

The fermenter 202 further includes a second discharge port, which is communicated with a second feeding port on the cooking box 106 in the wine brewing machine 10 through a return line (not shown), wherein the return line is further communicated with the water pump assembly 40, and hot water circulation in the cooking box 106 and the fermenter 202 is realized through the water pump assembly 40.

Specifically, the water in the reservoir 104 is injected into the heating device 105 through the first pipeline 51, and the hot water and the steam formed by the heating device 105 are injected into the cooking chamber 106 through the second pipeline 52 and the first water injection port on the intermediate plate 1022; the water pump assembly 40 pumps the wort and the hot water in the cooking chamber 106 from the first discharge port 1066, and the wort and the hot water are sent to the first feeding port of the fermenter 202 through the outflow line 53 and injected into the fermenter 202; the pump assembly 40 continues to pump wort and hot water out of the second outlet port of the fermenter 202 through the return line and into the second inlet port of the digester 106 and back into the digester 106, thereby circulating hot water and steam between the digester 106 and the fermenter 202.

This way of circulating hot water between the cooking chamber 106 and the fermenter 202 accelerates the wort extraction efficiency of the disposable grain box 107.

In addition, a feeding port is arranged at the top of the fermentation barrel 202, and yeast can be fed into the fermentation barrel 202 from the feeding port to ferment the wort.

As shown in fig. 1, in the integrated beer machine 100, a switch button 11 and a mode selection knob 12 are further disposed on a front side of a first housing 101 of a brewer 10, wherein the switch button 11 is used for starting or closing the integrated beer machine 100; the mode selection knob 12 is used to switch different brewing modes. In different brewing modes, the temperature of the hot water produced in the heating device 105, the amount of water injected into the cooking chamber 106, and thus the cooking chamber 106, are in different states.

The temperature control plate 21 is disposed on the front side of the second casing 201 of the wine dispenser 20, and the temperature control plate 21 can be used to display the fermentation temperature in the fermentation barrel 202. In addition, the temperature control panel 21 further includes an input module, and the corresponding fermentation temperature can be input through the input module according to different types of beer, so that the fermentation process is more controllable. The process of brewing beer using the integrated beer machine 100 as shown in fig. 1 to 9 includes:

step 1, selecting proper disposable grain boxes 107 and hop bags to be respectively put into a cooking box 106 according to the preference of a user;

step 2, turning on the switch key 11, adjusting the mode selection knob 12 to enter a cooking program corresponding to the disposable cereal box 107;

step 3, inputting water in the water storage tank 104 into a heating device 105 through a first pipeline 52, heating cold water to hot water with a preset temperature range by the heating device 105, and sending the hot water and water vapor into the disposable grain box 107 in the front area of the box body 1061 of the cooking box 106 through a second pipeline 52 and a first water injection port on the intermediate partition plate 1022 to extract wort; when the hot water injected into the disposable grain box 107 rises to the oozing hole 1072, the hot water flows out to the inside of the body 1061 of the cooking chamber 106 together with the wort;

step 4, starting the water pump assembly 40 in the wine taking machine 20, wherein the water pump assembly 40 pumps hot water and wort in the cooking box 106, so that the hot water and the wort sequentially pass through a first discharge port 1066 on a rear side plate 1069 of the cooking box 106, an outflow pipeline 53 and a first feeding port of the fermentation barrel 202 to enter the fermentation barrel 202, and then circulate to the cooking box 106 through a second discharge port of the fermentation barrel 202, a return pipeline and a second feeding port of the cooking box 106, and hot water is circulated between the cooking box 106 and the fermentation barrel 202 in a reciprocating manner so as to accelerate the extraction of wort in the disposable grain box 107;

step 5, after the wort extraction is finished, injecting hot water into the box body 108 through the second water injection port on the middle partition plate 1022 to obtain a hop extracting solution, wherein the hop extracting solution flows out from the leakage hole 1085 at the bottom of the box body 108 and is mixed with the wort in the box body 1061; opening the water pump assembly 40 to draw the mixture of wort and hop extract from the first outlet port 1066, and then feeding the mixture into the fermenter 202 through the outflow line 53 and the first inlet port of the fermenter 202;

step 6, reducing the temperature in the to-be-fermented barrel 202 to a proper temperature, such as 20-25 ℃ at normal temperature, adding yeast from a feeding port of the to-be-fermented barrel 202, automatically setting the optimal yeast fermentation temperature and fermentation time according to a preselected brewing mode, and then fermenting;

step 7, after fermentation, filling carbon dioxide gas into the fermentation barrel 202 through a gas filling pipeline (not shown) before beer is drunk, so as to improve the taste of the beer;

step 8; the beer in the fermenter 202 is taken out by opening the tapping cock 30.

Further, in order to make the beer brewing process of the integrated beer machine 100 more intelligent and controllable and avoid the problem of failed brewing or bad taste caused by forgetting to select a proper brewing mode by the user, the integrated beer machine 100 and the disposable cereal box 107 are controlled to perform the beer brewing automatically. As shown in fig. 4 and 7, the disposable cereal box 107 is provided with a first sensing unit 60, and the first sensing unit 60 stores material information such as the type of each raw material and the ratio of each raw material in the material bag in the disposable cereal box 107; a second sensing unit 70 is arranged on a frame 102 of the brewing machine 10, wherein the second sensing unit 70 exchanges data with the first sensing unit 60, the second sensing unit 70 is used for receiving material information of the first sensing unit 60 and transmitting the material information to a control unit (not shown) in the brewing machine 10, and the control unit controls the heating temperature, the heating time, the water injection amount and the like of the heating device 105 according to the received material information; the on time and off time of the water pump assembly 40; the fermentation temperature in the fermenter 202.

In this embodiment, the control unit is electrically connected to the second sensing unit 70. In addition, the control unit is also electrically connected to the mode selection knob 12.

In a preferred embodiment, the first sensing unit 60 can be a first proximity sensor chip (NFC chip), a bar code, a two-dimensional code, or the like; the second sensing unit 70 may be a second proximity sensor chip (NFC chip), a barcode reading device, or a two-dimensional code reading device. The barcode reading device or the two-dimensional code reading device may be an image reading unit.

Specifically, when the first sensing unit 60 is a first proximity sensor chip (NFC chip), it includes a storage unit in which material information is stored, and when it communicates with the second sensing unit 70 (second proximity sensor chip), the material information is directly transferred to the second sensing unit 70.

When the first sensing unit 60 is an identification image such as a barcode or a two-dimensional code, and the second sensing unit 70 is an image reading unit, the image reading unit scans the barcode or the two-dimensional code to obtain corresponding material information.

When a user places the disposable grain box 107 in the cooking box 106 and the cooking box 106 is pushed into the brewing machine 10, the first sensing unit 60 and the second sensing unit 70 sense each other, the material information is output to the control unit through the second sensing unit 70, and the control unit controls the integrated beer machine 100 to enter a corresponding brewing process, so that the problems of failed brewing and poor beer taste caused by the fact that the user carelessly selects a proper control program without a mode selection button are avoided.

Further, after the integrated beer machine 100 begins brewing, the display panel 13 on the front side of the beer machine 10 displays current brewing information, the display panel 13 includes an input module, and a user can input adjustment information through the input module to adjust a brewing process, for example, adjust a hot water temperature and a circulation time in the cooking box 106, a fermentation time, a fermentation temperature, an air inflation amount and the like in the fermentation barrel 202, so that the taste of the beer is more expected. Wherein, the input module is electrically connected to the control unit.

In a preferred embodiment, the display panel 13 is a touch display panel, for example.

In this embodiment, the control unit is electrically connected to the display panel 13, for example, the control unit is a processing chip of the display panel 13, and the processing chip controls the display panel 13 to display information in the brewing process, such as the water level in the cooking chamber 106, the heating temperature of the heating device 105, the number of hot water cycles, the temperature of the fermentation barrel 202, the pressure in the gas cylinder, and the like.

In this embodiment, the first sensing unit 60 is, for example, disposed at the upper side of the disposable cereal box 107; the second sensing unit 70 is disposed on the middle partition 1022, for example, but not limited thereto. In other embodiments of the present invention, the first sensing unit and the second sensing unit may be respectively disposed at any positions of the disposable cereal box and the brewing machine, and only data communication between the disposable cereal box and the brewing machine is required.

It should be noted that, since the environment in the brewing machine 10 is relatively humid, the outer sides of the first sensing unit 60 and the second sensing unit 70 may be subjected to a waterproof treatment, for example, the outer sides of the first sensing unit 60 and the second sensing unit 70 are respectively covered with a waterproof layer.

It should be noted that the present invention also provides a control method of an integrated beer machine, comprising:

step S1, selecting proper disposable cereal boxes 107 and hop packets to be respectively put into the cooking boxes 106;

step S2, turning on the switch button 11, the second sensing unit 70 in the brewing machine 10 identifies the first sensing unit 60 on the disposable cereal box 107, and obtains material information from the first sensing unit 60, the material information is transmitted to the control unit, and the control unit starts the corresponding brewing process according to the material information;

step S3, entering the cooking process, circulating hot water between the cooking box 106 and the fermentation vat 202, and extracting wort;

step S4, entering a fermentation process, controlling the fermentation barrel 202 to cool to a proper temperature, and adding yeast for fermentation;

step S5, a gas filling process is carried out, and carbon dioxide gas is filled into the fermentation barrel 202 through a gas filling pipeline;

in step S6, the beer tap 30 is opened to take out the beer in the fermenter 202.

The step S2 further includes displaying the brewing process on the display panel 13, inputting adjustment information from an input module of the display panel, and adjusting various parameters in the steps S3 to S5, including but not limited to adjusting the temperature and circulation time of hot water in the cooking chamber 106, the fermentation time in the fermenter 202, the fermentation temperature, and the carbon dioxide aeration amount.

In conclusion, according to the integrated beer machine and the control method thereof, the sensing unit is arranged in the integrated beer machine and senses the sensing unit on the disposable grain box to obtain the material information in the disposable grain box, and the control unit automatically starts the brewing process after obtaining the material information, so that the problems of failed brewing and poor beer taste caused by the negligence of a user and the fact that a proper control program is not selected through the mode selection button are avoided. In addition, because the display panel comprises the display module and the input module, a user can modify the wine brewing process in real time through the input module, so that the wine brewing process is more personalized.

The present invention is capable of other embodiments, and various changes and modifications may be made by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

1. An integrated beer machine, which comprises a brewing machine and a beer taking machine which are communicated with each other, and is characterized in that,

a cooking box is arranged in the inner cavity of the wine brewing machine;

a disposable grain box is arranged in the cooking box;

wherein a first sensing unit is arranged in the disposable cereal box; a second induction unit is arranged in the cooking box; the second sensing unit senses the first sensing unit to obtain material information of the disposable cereal box; the second sensing unit is electrically connected with the control unit of the wine brewing machine; the second sensing unit transmits the material information to a control unit of the brewing machine, and the control unit of the brewing machine controls the integrated beer machine to enter a brewing process according to the material information.

2. The integrated beer machine of claim 1 wherein said brewer further comprises a frame disposed in said interior chamber, said second sensing unit being disposed on a mid-deck of said frame.

3. The integrated beer machine of claim 1 wherein the first sensing unit is a first proximity sensor chip, the first proximity sensor chip including a storage unit, the storage unit storing the material information.

4. The integrated beer machine of claim 3, wherein the second sensing unit is a second proximity sensor chip, wherein the second proximity sensor chip is used for communicating with the first proximity sensor chip to obtain the material information and transmitting the material information to the control unit.

5. The integrated beer machine of claim 1 wherein said first sensing unit is a bar code or a two-dimensional code; the second sensing unit is an image reading unit; the image reading unit scans the bar code or the two-dimensional code to obtain the material information and transmits the material information to the control unit.

6. The integrated beer machine of claim 1, wherein the first and second sensing units are covered with a waterproof layer at the outer sides thereof, respectively.

7. The integrated beer machine of claim 1, wherein a display panel is disposed at a front side of the beer machine, the display panel comprises an input module, and the input module is electrically connected to the control unit.

8. An integrated beer machine control method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the integrated beer machine control method comprising:

s1, the disposable grain box is put into a cooking box, and the cooking box is put into a wine brewing machine;

9. The integrated beer machine of claim 8, wherein said control means comprises:

s4, performing a fermentation process, controlling a fermentation barrel in the wine taking machine to cool, and then adding yeast for fermentation;

and S6, opening a wine taking faucet in the wine taking machine to take out the beer in the fermentation barrel.

10. The integrated beer machine control of claim 8, wherein said S2 further comprises:

controlling a display panel of the brewing machine to display a brewing process;

and inputting adjustment information from an input module of the display panel to adjust the brewing process.