Recent content by clifwlkr

If you head up the Park City way ( about 30 min from SLC ), Wasatch Brew Pub is worth a stop by. The food is good, although in my opinion a bit spendy, and they were the first brew pub in Utah. Just down the street from there is Utah's first ( and recently opened ) distillery, High West. They...

A few of mine: Might not understand unless you live in Utah: Handbook Red (Provides the Guidance You Need) : Basic Amber Kolob Kolsch ( A Heavenly Brew ) : Kolsch Mountain Meadow ( A Killer Mead ) : Dry Mead Pumpkin Beers: Jack's Lantern Ale : Pumpkin Ale Black Cat Stout : Pumpkin...

I brew at over 7100 feet, and don't have any loss in the fermentation, so I am not sure what is going on there. As far as the boil goes, it is mostly due to the low humidity that typically comes from living out west. It also greatly varies with the time of year, as heating already dry air...

Coming back from GABF, I was carrying several packages of whole hops that Michelob was giving out for free (Hallertau). I went to multiple sessions, so I got multiple packets, as well as what my gf picked up for me as well. I didn't have any checked baggage, and had no problems going through...

Well adding it at the mash, if nothing else, makes dealing with it a lot easier. With the whole pumpkin chunks there is no chance of a stuck mash, as I cube it into like half inch cubes. Canned pumpkin might cause a stuck mash, but that seems like it could be avoided. Definitely something to...

I actually just tapped my keg of pumpkin stout ( Black Lantern Stout, a play on my Jack's Lantern Ale ) I made back at halloween. I used a basic recipe for export stout out of 'brewing classic styles' as my base and tweaked it a bit. Just a couple of thoughts on your recipe. I have found...

I have updated the GUI to add the timer, and better make use of the space, given my touch screen is only 800x600. The controls are all designed around using a touch screen without a mouse nor keyboard. I also added the functionality to program the BCS to a given Mash Temp, Mash Out Temp, and...

I just posted a new thread in this forum with screenshots of my flash stuff so you can go over there to see them if you are interested. Still a work in progress, but I am getting there. Jim Olsen

Well I finally got the motivation together and finished the first phase of my flash based brewery control software. I have put together some libraries, which I plan to release, that make communicating with the BCS-460 device really simple and easy to use. I wrote the android compatible screen...

> Jim - that sounds like a very slick solution, but is it going to > require anyone that wants their own custom display to need > to program it in flash? Yes, it will require someone to program in Adobe Flex if they want to use the libraries and do their own custom solution. I am...

Actually, I am going to soon put up some screen shots of a complete flash ( Adobe Flex ) version of brewing software. I created a series of services that communicate to the BCS for you, and gather the data. You simply then write the front end in flash. I am actually brewing my first batch of...

I had a fridge like this and had some similar issues. First, it used the same element for both the freezer and fridge, so that is not usually the problem. It has a fan that blows the cold air into that outlet you see in the freezer. If that outlet is closed, more of the air is moved down to...

I finished my HERMS setup this weekend, and brewed a batch of beer. With all of my new temperature probes in everything, I was wondering about the correct technique for doing a fly sparge. I know to heat the sparge water in the HLT to 170. Before, my mash was not heated, but used the cooler...

This looks like something that will really work out for me, as I build an automated system. A year and a half ago, I picked up a pallet of industrial computers from a salvage company. I sold a bunch of them and made my money back, but kept quite a few. Right now, I have one mounted on my...

My main house is at 7100 feet ASL, and I brew all of the time there. My only change is to sometimes brew things a bit longer to offset the lower boiling temperature of water up here. At 7100 (198F), it does not seem to have a large effect if I don't. My cabin, however, is at 10,200 feet ASL...