shayes2791
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Hi All,
I have been scouring this forum as well as others trying to figure out what I want for a brewery. Many here have been through many iterations of their breweries. I want to avoid that for the most part as I tend to do that with every hobby (and started to do with this) and my wife gets mad because of money spent and storage of multiple brewing equipment not used or no longer used. Plus I will have spent more time building it than brewing. I don’t mind putting the time in to build it, I just don’t want to keep rebuilding it like the Winchester Mansion.
I have pretty much everything covered from fermentation on. I have also bought grain mill, kettles, coolers, etc in preparation when I thought I knew how I was going to build. I originally was going to do biab or a 2 vessel recirculation with building an electric controller, but keep changing my mind. I like Brundogs setup minus his cooling method as that appears even more complicated. I would like to use the Brucontrol with Arduino, but haven’t really seen how to build an Arduino based controller (just pictures of what they built) so I’m a little apprehensive. I'm more apprehensive on the hardware than the software as I work in IT. I know Brian at Short Circuited Brewers is planning on doing an Arduino based controller build on his channel, but not quite sure when. I did like Brian’s build of ebrewsupply controller which I was one of my first considerations, but like the potential automation features of Arduino and software especially for repeatability. I don’t need it fully automated, but would be nice to grow it if necessary.
I think I have my options narrowed down to what I want and not sure if anybody has any information that would help? I doubt I would need to brew more than 5 gallon batches. I like almost all styles and gravity beers.
1. Brucontrol/Arduino- Would love to build this but not sure if too difficult
2. Hosehead – I think this and Brewboss are very similar. I like that this one can control two pumps and non-proprietary software interface. Feel it’s more limited in automation if I would want to add like control valves etc
3. Brewboss - I think this and Hosehead are very similar. Proprietary software interface. Feel it’s more limited in automation if I would want to add like control valves etc
4. Grainfather Connect – Could brew immediately with limited automation and accessories. Not sure if the 110 is strong enough. Hearing others say this is just a glorified coffee urn etc. Is it worth the price? Will it suit needs long term or would I end up building something more flexible later anyway?
Thanks,
Scott
I have been scouring this forum as well as others trying to figure out what I want for a brewery. Many here have been through many iterations of their breweries. I want to avoid that for the most part as I tend to do that with every hobby (and started to do with this) and my wife gets mad because of money spent and storage of multiple brewing equipment not used or no longer used. Plus I will have spent more time building it than brewing. I don’t mind putting the time in to build it, I just don’t want to keep rebuilding it like the Winchester Mansion.
I have pretty much everything covered from fermentation on. I have also bought grain mill, kettles, coolers, etc in preparation when I thought I knew how I was going to build. I originally was going to do biab or a 2 vessel recirculation with building an electric controller, but keep changing my mind. I like Brundogs setup minus his cooling method as that appears even more complicated. I would like to use the Brucontrol with Arduino, but haven’t really seen how to build an Arduino based controller (just pictures of what they built) so I’m a little apprehensive. I'm more apprehensive on the hardware than the software as I work in IT. I know Brian at Short Circuited Brewers is planning on doing an Arduino based controller build on his channel, but not quite sure when. I did like Brian’s build of ebrewsupply controller which I was one of my first considerations, but like the potential automation features of Arduino and software especially for repeatability. I don’t need it fully automated, but would be nice to grow it if necessary.
I think I have my options narrowed down to what I want and not sure if anybody has any information that would help? I doubt I would need to brew more than 5 gallon batches. I like almost all styles and gravity beers.
1. Brucontrol/Arduino- Would love to build this but not sure if too difficult
2. Hosehead – I think this and Brewboss are very similar. I like that this one can control two pumps and non-proprietary software interface. Feel it’s more limited in automation if I would want to add like control valves etc
3. Brewboss - I think this and Hosehead are very similar. Proprietary software interface. Feel it’s more limited in automation if I would want to add like control valves etc
4. Grainfather Connect – Could brew immediately with limited automation and accessories. Not sure if the 110 is strong enough. Hearing others say this is just a glorified coffee urn etc. Is it worth the price? Will it suit needs long term or would I end up building something more flexible later anyway?
Thanks,
Scott
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