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Home Brewing
I recently started home brewing beer. There is plenty of
information on the web to get started with this hobby; here is yet another
version, from my perspective. I've been intending to start brewing for many
years now, and have slowly been collecting equipment. I wasn't content to
simply do this in my kitchen, like most people. Brewing beer was really just as
excuse to learn more about temperature control and data acquisition.
So I tried to build the most precise, temperature controlled fermentation
system I could. After a few prototypes, the final temperature sensor circuit
had a precision of 0.02 C, stable over a wide ambient temperature range. A
16-bit data acquisition board reads more than 4 temperature sensors and a custom VB
program controlled a pump and recirculating water chiller to maintain the
fermenting beer to better than 0.1C of the desired temperature.
I learned a lot in developing this system for the last 6 batches, and have
made some improvements in hardware and software that will be used in future
batches. I will put more details when I get some time.
Current Pages
Sanke kegs
Exposed! - Disassembly of a Sanke type beer keg.
CO2
Push - How to use CO2 to "push" your beer from one container to another
Mystery
Pressure Relief Valve - Where can I get replacements for this type of
corny valve?
Contact info:
Rick Workman
1118 E. 4th St
Tucson, AZ 85721
520-621-8243
rworkman@u.arizona.edu
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