Sometimes it feels like crawling towards the finish, but it’s been three years or so that I’ve been planning a second brewery (mostly covered in this post), and I’m almost there. The latest (and last?) setback is the unavailability of stainless-steel quick disconnects locally – looks like I’ll have to get them shipped within the [...]
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Perhaps non-existent, but most likely not – in which case he was possibly sold, ostracized, beaten, harassed, and looked down upon. Bigger in North America than anywhere else – owing to the ex-pat Irish roots of major cities here. Expropriator of the clover as a teaching device for the doctrine of the trinity. Expropriated in [...]
Did you hear about the guy who resisted buying a soldering iron till he was sure his old one was beyond discovery? I finally got the iron, and the time, to solder the thermometer input on the control panel, and solder the thermometer wires to its plug-in too. So I got to test out the [...]
I’ve been working on the control panel for the new brewery. Short of some soldering (where is that soldering iron, anyway?), it’s ready to go. It’s satisfying to see the new brewery finally taking form.
So I’m a home brewer – from sacks of grain and home grown hops, no less. I have been doing this for a number of years with a manual system, which means a lot of lugging heavy hot liquids around. And all this time, I’ve been designing and collecting parts for an electric, more automated [...]
