Recent content by highbank

No need to send any money, glad I can help out. Just let me know where to send it and I'll drop some in the mail.

I have the same basic setup as you (stout tanks w/ temp sensor in one of the thermowells). I don't know what the best thing to use is, but I used this: http://www.omega.com/pptst/OT-201.html It seems to be working well, the temperature changes reflect pretty quickly. I ended up buying way too...

Great write-up. Sounds like you had a blast! I'm in the Seattle area (Fox Island) and had many friends who went to Western, so lots of those breweries looked familiar. :) Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I'm on Fox Island, near Gig Harbor.

I decided to roll my own Raspberry Pi based controller so selling my BCS-462. It's only been used a few times to play around with settings, test sensors, etc. but works great. $275 shipped.

Thanks for the response. I didn't think there was anything to worry about just wondering what caused it to do that one time and not another. Yeast is a mysterious organism, I guess. :)

I'm a new brewer on my fifth extract batch which I just racked out of primary and the yeast cake looked much different than any of the previous and I'm wondering why. In all my previous batches the yeast cake was very flat and smooth, in this batch it was all clumped up. Here's a couple pics...