iGulu F2 Brews Fresh Beer, Cider & Kombucha at Push of a Button
What’s better than a beer at the pub or a bottle picked up from the local store? A beer you brewed yourself at home. We got a look at iGulu’s F2 beer brewer at IFA 2026 ahead of its Kickstarter crowdfunding launch.
iGulu first introduced the S1 through a Kickstarter run in 2024, then followed it with a low-key launch of the F1 on its own website. Hot on the heels of two successful launches, the company has now introduced the F2, which is set to hit Kickstarter on September 15 (or the 22nd, if the campaign slips by a week) at IFA 2026 for its first public screening.
For readers unfamiliar with the brand and the product, the F2 is a compact countertop machine meant to fit in a kitchen or home bar without taking up much counter space. It’s a homebrewing system built to automate fermentation and produce a wide range of drinks on a tap.
Similar to its predecessor, the F2 pairs guided recipes with multi-stage fermentation control, fresh tap dispensing, app connectivity, and near-isobaric bottling. The idea is to give people something better than store-bought beer or kombucha without the trial and error that homebrewing usually involves.
Running the machine doesn’t take much figuring out. All one is required to do is drop in one of iGulu’s ingredient kits, scan the RFID card that comes with it, and the system’s BrewOS software takes over from there, adjusting temperature, pressure, oxygen exposure, chilling, and carbonation through FermControl 3.0, so the user isn’t checking on it constantly.
The appliance doubles as a fermentation station and a dispenser, letting both beginners and seasoned brewers tweak recipes and pour professional-quality drinks with little effort on their end. “With F2, our goal is to make home brewing feel less like a specialist hobby and more like an everyday creative experience,” iGulu CEO David Zhang tells Homecrux. “We want people to enjoy the freshness of a home tap, the confidence of guided brewing, and the pride of sharing something they made themselves,” he adds.
The F2 is built around a broader home beverage lifestyle rather than beer alone, and it spans five brewing categories. It handles classic craft beer, orchard and honey-based drinks such as cider and mead, live ferments like kombucha and kefir, and sparkling tea and coffee creations, with room left for experimental recipes as new ingredient kits arrive. Whether the F2 takes off will depend largely on the Kickstarter campaign ahead, tentatively scheduled to run from September 15, 2026, through October 30, 2026.
