If some of you remember me, I'm back
Before the backstory and reason for the post, I basically ended up brewing an all grain batch with my nephew as he had brewed with me in the past and loved it. This re-bit me and I've got the brewing bug again!
Now to why I stopped: I ended up moving to the PNW and the amount of beer here is amazing, combined with just a generally super busy life etc, meant I didn't really have time to home brew. I ended up selling off all my brewing gear a year or so ago, and had been chasing a different hobby (Building Tube Guitar amplifiers from scratch.)
I'm now seriously considering starting anew, and building a HERMS brew system using raspberry Pi. I saw the app (CraftBeerPi) in the brewing automation area, I may just give that a go, since I'm a linux nerd it shouldn't be too hairy. (or I may customize it a bit, it seems right now it only supports one type of temperature sensor, so I may add code to support a different one I think may work better, (a two wire thermocouple instead of the three wire they've got now)
I've been running a YouTube channel for my amp builds, and am curious if people here would want to watch me documenting the build process there as well? I'm still not 100% ready anyway, could take a few months to even start, gotta save up the shekels
At any rate, I'm pretty excited if the SWMBO will give me the go
~Phil
Before the backstory and reason for the post, I basically ended up brewing an all grain batch with my nephew as he had brewed with me in the past and loved it. This re-bit me and I've got the brewing bug again!
Now to why I stopped: I ended up moving to the PNW and the amount of beer here is amazing, combined with just a generally super busy life etc, meant I didn't really have time to home brew. I ended up selling off all my brewing gear a year or so ago, and had been chasing a different hobby (Building Tube Guitar amplifiers from scratch.)
I'm now seriously considering starting anew, and building a HERMS brew system using raspberry Pi. I saw the app (CraftBeerPi) in the brewing automation area, I may just give that a go, since I'm a linux nerd it shouldn't be too hairy. (or I may customize it a bit, it seems right now it only supports one type of temperature sensor, so I may add code to support a different one I think may work better, (a two wire thermocouple instead of the three wire they've got now)
I've been running a YouTube channel for my amp builds, and am curious if people here would want to watch me documenting the build process there as well? I'm still not 100% ready anyway, could take a few months to even start, gotta save up the shekels
At any rate, I'm pretty excited if the SWMBO will give me the go
~Phil