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I've done 14 batches and have oven-sterilized them every time. Though there has certainly been some refreshing of the glassware as some have been given away, but many have made the cycle a few times or more. Four of those batches were cider that I pasteurized in hot water, which tests the...

Sugar substitute for what purpose? As a general statement I'd assume that sugar substitutes are not fermentable, therefore would work (disregarding off flavor or aftertaste, if that is a concern) for back sweetening cider. Obviously non-fermentable sweeteners would not work to raise the alcohol...

^filed under accident-inducing humor.

Ahhhhh, that makes sense.

Sounds great and I will be on the lookout for peach cider as a result. My only question is why sugar? At a 1.079 OG, your alcohol potential is pretty high, I believe. I figure you could put an ale yeast, nutrient, pec taste and an airlock in a bottle with your cider and get some wonderful...

Recommend TeensyPi website. Teensy is close to Arduino and should get you started on how to get the two talking. Www.teensypi.com. And the proprietor of said website is a home brewer on this forum.

The PID checks can run as quickly as the machine can process them, but this obviously isn't the entire logic in the TeensyPi sketch. Before each time it runs through the logic I've shown, the PID output is updated with the current temperature measurement. If the output is updated to an input...

As HeliBrewer (owner of the coolest avatar on the forum, btw) stated, there may be plenty of granularity In a discrete PID. It may even be that my proposal is equivalent to a binary discrete PID. My controls professor would hang his head that I can no longer demonstrate the truth of this...

I use my 5/8" OD blowoff hose to go over my utility sink spigot. Works beautifully, though I plan to pick up the screw-on adapter setup sooner or later. Though I realize you didn't ask how to rebuild your house, I will point out that my favorite part of mine is the 20 gallon sink in the garage.

Great project. I intend and hope to use the TeensyPi for a few brewing projects, the first of which is a http://makezine.com/projects/make-25/sous-vide-immersion-cooker/sous vide machine that I will use to pasteurize hard cider. My current rate of stovetop bottle bombs is unacceptably high. I...

I would be interested in a board if somebody wanted to set up the group buy. Jimmay--nicely done. This is glorious work. Excited to get my hardware.

Beautiful bar with the exception of that ridiculous sign over the taps. Almost enough to make the beer taste bad. BEAT ARMY!!

Sorry--I don't know how I got the Teensy and Arduino boards swapped as I read the wiki and the thread. What I was really getting at was using my existing LAMP server with a controller board. The part that I haven't skinned, though, is the connection between the controller board (Teensy or...

Have you looked at using an Arduino Ethernet or wifi shield to post the data to a home server? As I have a NAS/media server running at my house, that seems to make sense. I was reading the installation wiki and noticed that the RPi communicates with the Arduino via the serial bus. I have put...

I found this https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/how-fast-fast-my-diy-immersion-chiller-2-parallel-20x3-8-coils-384021/ that I think does the same thing you are talking about. It addresses the problem that the upstream portion of the WC is much cooler than the downstream portion of a single coil...

I think price is the most important consideration of a new brewer like me. I like the idea of a drain and a thermometer, for instance, but I believe many new brewers will see that as of questionable necessity for a first pot. For a first pot, I'd target an 8-ish gallon inexpensive vessel with...

FWIW, when I bottled my fourth batch I was in a hurry and thought I'd forgotten the priming sugar in the boiling water. So I added the sugar. Turns out I had not forgotten it initially. So I double primed the batch. That night I heard some strange noises but ignored them. A week later--after...

MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Barely used said degrees. I turn fuel into CO2 for a living and sugar into CO2 in my spare time.

Wow. Lovely. I suppose the thread is labeled appropriately.

I was referring to college football. There are parts of the country where the National Championship game has more viewers than the Super Bowl. Roll Tide