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Update: Yesterday I filled the drum half-full of tap water, at 78 degrees and plugged the box in. The temperature has been dropping just under a degree an hour. This morning it was down to 62 degrees... I am quite pleased. Now I have to make something to steam a whole 50-lb bag of rice and...

Hi, twobrain! For now I'm using the same Koji and polished rice that they use at SakeOne in Oregon... They sell it to FHSteinbart.com who resells it to us home brewers. That makes things much easier. I'm using the recipe Bob Taylor put together at http://www.taylor-madeak.org/index.php which is...

I can only make 30 gallons or so of sake in a 55 gallon drum since the sake foams up a lot when it ferments. For 30 gallons of sake I need 100 lbs of rice and 25 lbs of koji -- which is rice with a mold that has the enzymes in it to turn the rice starch into sugar for the yeast to eat. For my...

I'm scaling up my Sake homebrew and I need to keep a 55-gallon drum cool in the cheapest way possible. So, with a mini-fridge I had on hand and a trip to Home Depot, I made a 55-gallon drum cold box. This box would work just as well for Lagers, or keeping a LOT of corny kegs cold... but I'm...

The electronic bits: (from Phidgets.com) 2 x 1051 USB Temperature Sensors $57 each 1 x 1018 USB 8/8/8 I/O boards $76 (from Tequipment.net) 2 x UEIATT50 K-Type liquid probes $36 each (from PowerSwitchTail.com) 5 x switchtails $15 each, I'm only...

My daughter has appropriated my wife's old macbook pro to play flash games so I appropriated her little green computer to brew beer. I plugged in some usb-controlled thermocouples and relays and I cut a few hours off my pay-attention-to-the-brew time! So far I have only automated the HLT...