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Thanks I appreciate that. I was planning on a 156 F mash to provide some non-fermentables for the bugs but I might settle in closer 152-154 if there's an expected Sacc stall.

Thanks for the follow up. That sounds great!

Good morning @pearljam1984, any follow up on the bottles after a few more months? I'll be brewing a rye-forward saison this week and primary fermenting with Sour Batch Kidz. My intent is to bottle-condition once terminal for a few months but wanted to get a sense for how this might have...

The controller defaults back to "Off" with no set point but I know you can't establish a setpoint without temperature values so it's a bit of a "chicken and egg" argument in my mind about whether the pin assignment fails first. Temperature mode remains in Fahrenheit. The ESP retains all of the...

Correct. And that's been the thing that's making me crazy about this. Two different ESP8266-based controllers both up and running with no problem for some random period of time then losing pin assignment. Interestingly the last time the draft system controller was connected via WiFi (I confirmed...

I wound up with the same issue as before, both ESP8266 controllers dropped their pin assignment simultaneously. For now I'm just using Inkbirds for fermentation and draft control and tracking my Tilt with Fermentrack. Would moving to an ESP32 help? Or if I can live without WiFi just fall back to...

Good enough, thank you for the quick responses! I'm brewing this weekend but will be around to supervise so there shouldn't be any problems.

I power cycled the controller for the fermentation chamber and after about ten minutes without power the pin assignment is still holding. It's curious to me that something hardware-related like memory would fail on two discrete chips at the same time given that one has about ten thousand hours...

Thanks. The Controller Response Test definitely sent me down a rabbit hole checking connectivity. No worries though! Every iteration of this teaches me something new. So the good news is that when the pins assign everything functions as expected including activating the relay to switch on...

- The fermentation chamber controller is all the same with no changes. The draft system controller is a brand new build that was previously working until the weekend (about 5 days of up time before failure). - The temperature breakout boards were not switched between controllers. - Both...

Sorry about that, the physical LCD screens on both controllers. Interestingly, if I set one controller to "Beer Constant" the physical LCD screen updates to display the Mode and temperature setpoints but still no current temperature readings. That leads me to figure it's a hardware issue with...

@Thorrak thanks, first of all, for all your work on this! I'm writing because I'm running into a continued issue with my ESP8266-based controllers disconnecting from the web interface. I ran a fresh setup of Fermentrack on a Pi Zero W last week and flashed two controllers built on your PCB's...

This is the same issue I described above. Interestingly, my ESP was connected via WiFi at the time and is directly wired to a power supply module via Thorrak's breakout board so I think it's unlikely power was my issue. I reflashed to the serial firmware and have it connected directly to the PI...

That's an interesting thought. Any suggestion on a particular log or somewhere to look on the Pi to run down that theory? My Raspberry Pi is connected via Ethernet to a switch in the same basement space and the ESP8266 is probably three feet from a WiFi access point so I'm not sure about a dodgy...

@Thorrak, first of all, thanks for all of the work you've done on this project! Fermentrack (and the Tilt support) has been a life-saver as I travel (well, traveled before all of this) for work quite a bit. I had an interesting issue with my last batch that I wanted to run past the group. I'm...

Any idea what is causing the bitterness? Obviously in brewing the AA are isomerized creating bitterness during the boil. With no heat being applied can anyone comment on what the mechanism might be with booch?

Hey all, I'm going to be entering my first competition at the end of the month. I have a Coffee Porter that I'm really happy with and would like to get some other opinions on. My question has to do with selection of categories. The base beer for this particular recipe is definitely in the 20A...

I just racked my IPA over to a keg and put it on to carb. It smells amazing and the sample tastes great. This will be a good one. I'm also picking up some BLC and building the fountain pump draft line cleaner to do a little Spring cleaning on the draft system.

Thanks! The hoodie is a great idea. Also warming the tank before hand. Of course I had been storing it in the garage before use. I checked this morning and I didn't have much yeast activity. Likely a result of over shooting my cooling a bit. Moved the carboy closer to the furnace and will...

After three successful extract batches, I made the leap to all-grain brewing this weekend. I intended to "live post" throughout but got easily distracted along the way, so here's the write-up... My set up is a 10 gallon Igloo mash tun with a straight braid. I'm boiling in a 15G keggle and...