The Bluto 555 is a spectacularly overblown homebrewing system. It's the product of a sick mind. Imagine being an an obsessed homebrewer who goes to sleep each night dreaming about stainless steel, yeast and BJCP beer styles. Oh wait, that describes you already? OK. Now add a mid-life crisis, a tie-burning ceremony, a vision of the world's most versatile nanobrewery/brewpub system and another two years of obsessing, and you get the Bluto 555.
The Bluto 555 is a Recirculating Infusion Mash System inspired by the Brutus Ten, the brainchild of Lonnie Mac, NASA rocket scientist, homebrewer and President of the Brutus Ten cult. It... is... just... bigger... and has all the features that zealous homebrewers obsess over on message boards like thebrewingnetwork, morebeer, northernbrewer, homebrewtalk and others, features like automated gas valve, pump and temperature controls, liquid level float switches, motorized mixing and solenoid controlled whirlpool immersion chilling.
It's a 5 vessel system because the addition of 2 vessels to the typical 3 opened up a fascinating list of possibilities for someone both desiring to supply a dozen tap taproom with small batches of constantly rotating styles and also desiring to brew bigger batches of certain styles for a little wider distribution. In a single brewday on the Bluto 555, you can brew anywhere from 1 bbl of a single beer to 4 bbls of 4 different beers (adding a tankless water heater), and with another addition of a large pre-boil reservoir, up to 12 bbls of a single beer in a single brewday is a possibility.
It's perfect for decoction mashes, turbid mashes, separate boil downs for kettle caramelization, also producing Belgian candi sugar. It doubles as open fermenters, a pre-bottling sugar/yeast mixing reservoir and a clean in place system. Stack up a hundred used bourbon and wine barrels, brew as many single brew lengths on the Bluto 555 as your heart desires to fill them all with something different and end up with barrel aged beer galore!!! The Bluto 555 is the beast of barrel brewing.
*** of course, until the system has been thoroughly tested, here's some caveats ***
