The First Fully Automatic Beer Dispenser

We were at a football match and during the break we wanted a cup of cold beer – just like thousands of other fans. We queued at a beer stall with two beer taps. The people working the stall were fast, but not fast enough: The thirsty crowd, us included, was getting more and more impatient, since the halftime break is only 15 minutes, and the queue just kept getting longer!

During the long wait we wondered how we could optimize the wait time for our cold beer, while making the work easier for the beer stall staff. As engineers, we started by making a quick sketch of an automatic beer dispenser.

We worked on lots of ideas, had brilliant inspirations, we had quite a few trials and errors, but we didn’t give up.

After months of experimenting and testing we had the final product: Our fully automatic drought beer dispense system. We are very proud of it. We have sent it to several music festivals, football games in stadiums, pubs, beer gardens, concerts and other small and large events to test it. Our machines were tested in “hot” situations for months.