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Hop water v1

by Justin on June 9, 2021 • 2 Comments

I’m finally getting with the program and making my own hop water

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Shout-out to Chris Van

by Justin on September 13, 2020 • 6 Comments

Chris Van reached out to me for some more details on the plumbing of my brewery back in 2019. He’s now built his own brewery and has shared some pictures. Well done Chris!

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2019 Brewery Updates pt 4: The Grand Revert

by Justin on September 28, 2019 • 25 Comments

In the process of planning the revisions detailed in part 3, I remembered that with my next brewery update, I had wanted to implement low oxygen brewing principles. This meant going back and adding a couple more design goals.

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2019 Brewery Updates pt 3: Design Revision (and Success)

by Justin on July 28, 2019 • 0 Comments

After a small tweak, I was able to get my idea of RIMS+loop to work basically as I envisioned it in a water test. A ball valve controlling the loop flow rate more linearly (compared to the butterfly valve used in my first revision) proved to be essential.

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2019 Brewery Updates pt 2: Initial Implementation (and Failure)

by Justin on July 25, 2019 • 0 Comments

I’ve made some progress with the design changes I detailed in post 1 of this series. I was able to implement the design, but in testing, it failed to give me the result I was hoping for. It has informed a revised design that I hold hope for working, however.

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2019 Brewery Updates pt 1: The Concept

by Justin on July 7, 2019 • 9 Comments

This year’s updates have been related to an idea I’ve been sharing for recirculating mash systems involving a high flow loop within a brewery’s plumbing

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Brewing with Node-RED pt 2: My Dashboard

by Justin on July 7, 2019 • 19 Comments

This post continues my discussion of Node-RED for brewing applications. In it I discuss my personal brewing dashboard and it’s features.

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Brewing with Node-RED pt 1: Introduction

by Justin on July 7, 2019 • 0 Comments

Node-RED is a popular framework for visual programming. In the post I introduce Node-RED, and discuss my transition to it from CraftBeerPi

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ESP8266 Fermentation Controller Build

by Justin on March 23, 2019 • 6 Comments

This post covers the build of my fermentation controller that uses an ESP8266 running BrewPiLess, with my custom ESP8266 PCB.

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My CraftBeerPi 3 Plugins

by Justin on February 25, 2019 • 11 Comments

I spent about 2 years using CraftBeerPi 3.0 as the software running my Raspberry Pi brewery controller. During this time I have written a handful of plugins to enhance or extend the functionality of the software.

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