Recent content by socommaker

Surprised that I haven't seen any info yet on here about this. Please forgive me if I didn't look to hard and another thread was already started. Arizona Beer Week gets started off with my favorite event of all time, "The Strong Beer Festival." This event has me forgetting many fun times...

Yeah, I figured as much. Its just that my first beer was a New Castle clone and only sat for 1 week in the bottles and carbed up just fine. I guess as I get higher in OG I need to give it more time. The second and thirds in bottles were fine, but I was still drinking the clone so I didn't...

The time thing could be it, I admit that it has only been 8 days when I opened it. But I have had success with others in that time. Batch size was 4gals. Did the priming sugar in the bottom of the bucket and racked beer ontop. Amount of priming sugar I think was 3/4 cup, my HB shop sells...

The time thing could be it, I admit that it has only been 8 days when I opened it. But I have had success with others in that time. Batch size was 4gals. Did the priming sugar in the bottom of the bucket and racked beer ontop. Amount of priming sugar I think was 3/4 cup, my HB shop sells...

:( So for the longest time I had given up on bottles cause after my third brew ever, the bottles just stopped carbonating. I switched to corny kegs and force carbing for the last year. That works wonders, however, I did a pumpkin beer like most everyone else does this time of year and wanted to...

I agree with the everyone else. The wine fridge component is not going to get very cold, red wines are not typically chilled and whites don't need to be below 40 that I have seen. This will be great for the keeping a constant temp for fermentation both ales and lagers, but you will certainly...

So I took the plunge a few weeks ago and sprung for a old fridge. Cost me $40 and was already missing the shelves, so I took the deal. I was so excited about starting the project that I forgot to take pictures of the before. So, you are going to have to use the imagination if you will. It was...

More power = bigger system! I like your thinking. Start with a big rig for the microcontroler, then build the brewing system around that. Hmmm... Don't think I can get approval for that. Was pulling teeth today, just to get a fridge for kegs. Only spent $40 bucks, re-enameling it as I type...

This thing looks really sweet :rockin:. That's what I would aspire to build. The coding isn't so tuff for me. If I had to have an order of hobbies, programing would be numero uno, then brewing, then DIY. So this hole project would boil down to using all three hobbies. I feel I could be led...

Two great links. Was looking for more of a DIY, this takes the fun out of the build. I just finished up a stir plate. Sorry no pics or reviews yet on that, still waiting for the stir bar in the mail. But I was hoping to get more solder iron time in and play with electronics. Used to do it as...

So I am interested into have more control of the fermentation process of making beer. I have seen many home made projects that incorporate electronics, but rarely are the the DIY methods talked about how those were done. My interest in this is from wanting to start taking some of the...