Wake-Forest-Azeotropes
Member
Hello all, i've been browsing through the forums lately. A few friends from college have been slowly convincing me to get back into homebrewing now that i've graduated college and have the time, and disposable income to brew again. I home brewed for about 1 1/2 years while in college (all grain of course) and had to quit (....lets just say take an extended break) to due time constraints, chemical engineering and free time don't really go hand-in-hand together.
Anyways, anytime i pursue a new hobby I have to learn something from it, Since i've had a pretty good background in home brewing, I also had a summer internship at a microbrewery as well, and my senior design project was losely based on brewing (this is another story). So I knew i could not just get some burners, pots, coolers, and whatever else and just start brewing.
After searching the forums i've seen a lot of people automating their systems and using hot water heater elements and using and electric heat source vs gas. AHA!!!!!
So, I'm planning on building a small scale (2.5-3 gal batches) automated set-up, I've been browsing peoples set ups on here and getting ideas, but i'm still pretty far off. I've purchased some arduino-clones to begin experimenting and learning about using/building systems from micro controllers. I do not have a back ground in programming or building electronics, but...I'm a pretty fast learner.
I figured i would go ahead and make my introduction. If there are any brewers in the Raleigh/Durham surrounding area, let me know. It never hurts to have brewing friends.
Anyways, anytime i pursue a new hobby I have to learn something from it, Since i've had a pretty good background in home brewing, I also had a summer internship at a microbrewery as well, and my senior design project was losely based on brewing (this is another story). So I knew i could not just get some burners, pots, coolers, and whatever else and just start brewing.
After searching the forums i've seen a lot of people automating their systems and using hot water heater elements and using and electric heat source vs gas. AHA!!!!!
So, I'm planning on building a small scale (2.5-3 gal batches) automated set-up, I've been browsing peoples set ups on here and getting ideas, but i'm still pretty far off. I've purchased some arduino-clones to begin experimenting and learning about using/building systems from micro controllers. I do not have a back ground in programming or building electronics, but...I'm a pretty fast learner.
I figured i would go ahead and make my introduction. If there are any brewers in the Raleigh/Durham surrounding area, let me know. It never hurts to have brewing friends.
