Hi brewer colleagues,
The 24th of September I posted on the first test run with my brew controller for a single pot RIMS setup.
That test was mainly about the temperature controller. It lives here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f235/test-run-home-made-brew-controller-braumeister-clone-490847/
The program is evolving quickly and a few weeks ago I did a completely automated brew. I made 15 liters of Belgian Golden Strong Ale. For this brew I used a multi-step mashing scheme and a boil with 3 hop additions. All mashing temperature steps and timings were under program control, as well as the boiling and the timing of the hop additions.
The controller worked almost flawlessly. But I need to do some more work on the brewing hardware. I'm still not completely satisfied with the pump/spray head and I definitely need to install the thermowell that recently arrived.
As far as circulating the wort is concerned, I was wondering if the wort might take up too much oxygen that might cause the wort/beer to turn out darker then expected.
Any thoughts on that?
Have a look for yourself on my blog or on YouTube where I posted a video on this test brew.
If you don't have time to watch that, my blog summarizes it mostly.
My blog post is here: http://www.merlinmakes.cato-projects.org/?x=entry:entry141010-152440
and this is the video report:
Let me know what you think,
PS
I thought it to be nice to add a poll to get to know your opinion better:
The 24th of September I posted on the first test run with my brew controller for a single pot RIMS setup.
That test was mainly about the temperature controller. It lives here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f235/test-run-home-made-brew-controller-braumeister-clone-490847/
The program is evolving quickly and a few weeks ago I did a completely automated brew. I made 15 liters of Belgian Golden Strong Ale. For this brew I used a multi-step mashing scheme and a boil with 3 hop additions. All mashing temperature steps and timings were under program control, as well as the boiling and the timing of the hop additions.
The controller worked almost flawlessly. But I need to do some more work on the brewing hardware. I'm still not completely satisfied with the pump/spray head and I definitely need to install the thermowell that recently arrived.
As far as circulating the wort is concerned, I was wondering if the wort might take up too much oxygen that might cause the wort/beer to turn out darker then expected.
Any thoughts on that?
Have a look for yourself on my blog or on YouTube where I posted a video on this test brew.
If you don't have time to watch that, my blog summarizes it mostly.
My blog post is here: http://www.merlinmakes.cato-projects.org/?x=entry:entry141010-152440
and this is the video report:
Let me know what you think,
PS
I thought it to be nice to add a poll to get to know your opinion better:
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