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IT MIGHT not yet be water into wine but beer drinkers can now perform their
own minor miracle. By adding ordinary tap water to the world鈥檚 first powdered
beer鈥攁nd then waiting for two weeks鈥攖hey can make 10 pints of
ale.

The beer is fermented in a device called the Miracle BrewZer, a golden sphere
the size of a basketball with five supporting legs. 鈥淲hat we鈥檝e done is develop
the smallest brewery in the world,鈥� claims David Mugglestone, research director
of the Miracle Beer Company in Stowmarket, Suffolk, which produces the BrewZer
and the powdered beer.

Mugglestone and his colleagues have spent 拢2 million and six years
perfecting their system. The powder contains a blend of beer鈥檚 major
ingredients: malted barley, hops to impart flavour and yeast to ferment sugars
into alcohol.

The BrewZer breaks new ground in home brewing in that it dispenses with the
usual time-consuming steps of boiling malt extracts, sterilising equipment and
adding sugar. Mugglestone says that the secret of the powder lies in the careful
balance of ingredients and the process for drying them, but will not elaborate
further. The other key innovation is a sterile bag and attachments for brewing
each batch of beer. After producing 10 pints these are replaced.

The BrewZer costs around 拢30, but each pint brewed after that works out
at around 65 pence鈥攁bout half the price of canned beers.