Recent content by kirkm89

Interesting. Based on my research I knew it changed, not reduced bitterness, but I never knew the science behind. My taste buds liked the result though. It's not my intention to hijack OPs thread so I might search the forum for more info on FWH.

If going all grain, you may want to try first wort hopping. I recently tried it for the first time and liked the results. Though I don't have a fair apples to apples comparison of a batch with/without FWH additions, the IPA I did FWH with had bitterness that sat on the palette in a different...

I tried doing something like this out of the primary on my last IPA and WOW, amazing results! Original batch was a 5 gallon 1.055 OG IPA using one 11g package of re-hydrated Nottingham. After two weeks in primary, boiled about 3/4 gallon of spring water, cooled to room temp, and dumped it...

This is what I did with my STC-1000. Nice and clean, plus push-breakers on the hot feeds mean no fuses.

Yeah I'm self taught VB and SQL. Aka google copy and paste, debug until it passes without errors lol.

Ever go back and try to reverse engineer it? Lol. What platform/language do you code?

So far I'm all manual because I'm fairly new, but I have all kinds of ideas . I want to start with precise temperature control and run thermocouples into a controller that will dump data to a database that runs a trend on my TV upstairs. Then graduate to hot water purge system operated by...

Control Systems Specialist in Process Automation. I was made for this hobby.