Recent content by tim_n

I could probably drink 4.5 gallons in about 3 days. Probably 2 if the wife was allowed to join in.

Seemed to be! Syphon tubes were at leaat

I popped in and got some buckets, Campden tablets, yeast, SME for starters and some small airlock. Would have got a barrel as well but I had to transport it almost 4hrs on a train!

All vacuum pack machines perform better with the channeled bags. I find mine still seal hop bags (silver ones) but needs a lot of extra heat. I have an Andrew James too

Yes, the 25% sale is on in store as well. Or it is in Swindon at any rate.

I'm going to "pop out for a coffee" and see what it's like in the shop down the road!

5G of Amarello APA 1240 gallons!

Quite a lot involved I think. The guy who runs brew pi has been looking into it though. seen talking of measuring by weight, lasers and all sorts. At its simplest maybe a webcam pointing at a hydrometer left in your brew would suffice.

A friend of mine has just put up his brewing blog and plans for a conical fermenter. Thought there might be people out there interested! http://sevenoaksbrewery.co.uk/

There's no reason that it can't, but you'd need a sensor capable of taking a hydrometer reading. I've never had a fermentation that's gone on for more than two weeks, so I'd assume it was done by then. If I change what I'm brewing to something where I would expect it to take longer than two...

Today I did the hardware modification and brewed some beer at the same time. (http://www.albumonline.net/display.php?id=daaec33c - fridge and pi pic) I started by taking the top off the fridge so I could see if I could easily make a hole in it without actually destroying the cooling lines...

A bit easier then. How far did you get? Have you setup the pi? arduino? got the interface up and running? I've just finished mine. I thought we'd be done by midday having started at 10:40. No such luck!

Depends what bit you want help with! Is it the software or the hardware? The only bit where I had to go a bit off piste from the instructions on brewpi.com was registering the sensors and enabling password protection. Everything else went pretty smoothly!

Today my brewpi shield arrived. I'd gone for the slightly cheaper solder it yourself job. My electronic friends usually redo all the work I do, but one of them said "your soldering is getting better" Also I turned it on and it worked first time! I'm very impressed. Took a while to work out...

Not had that problem ever - Only murky brew is German Wheatbeer, but that's the point if it's going right... maybe you should try making some!