Rammstyle Brewing

I've been using a brewtroller 4.0 Pro board for a year or so now and its been fantastic. I've had it mounted within a water proof Stainless steel box that I got off a mate which was great. About two months a go I noticed that my menus wouldn't preceed and it'll go back and fourth even if I turn the encoder wheel around one direction, As you could imagine this annoyed me greatly and worse it happend during a brew. Youtube video of my brewtroller playing up (skip to 40sec) After playing around with my limited knowedge of electronics I jumped on freenode IRC server and talked directly to the brewtroller guys in #brewtroller. I should have done this amonth ago because an hour or two later my brewtroller board was fixed and the software compiling errors had be identified and updated. So what did they get me to do? Well first I had to check the encoder plug and see if 5v was coming out the pins. I couldn't do this because my multimeter was out of batteries so I just r

My test batch lager tasted of butterscotch once kegged... brew day below.. Well I did a test batch on my newly configured rig to get my eye in, I decided to use some random stuff I had laying around, which made me decide on a Vienna Lager. This sounded like a nice light beer to try and since its a lager I didn't put to much hops in my 'test' batch. The recipe if anyone is interested was..  Ingredients: ------------ Amount        Item                                      Type         % or IBU      4.70 kg       Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM)                     Grain        88.68 %       0.40 kg       Munich I (Weyermann) (7.1 SRM)            Grain        7.55 %        0.20 kg       Carapils (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM)            Grain        3.77 %        50.00 gm      Hallertauer [6.30 %]  (60 min)            Hops         34.1 IBU      10.00 gm      Hallertauer [6.30 %]  (5 min)             Hops         1.4 IBU       1 Pkgs        SafLager West European Lager (DCL Yeast #SYe

Rammstyle Brewery comes together in the new house. I managed to slip a wet room into the design which is fully plumbed from town water and also connected to a 23,500lt rain water tank for my chiller. Our house also has three phase power with 40amps per phase, I got a completely seperate circuit into the brew room so if i blow something the rest of the house keeps on going. The room is big enough for two fermenting fridges, a laundry trough in one corner and a three vessel brewrig with a Brewtroller control panel, a table for working with grain in tubs under it and room to move for brewing. The brewery is connected to a games room with pool table and kegerator (from previous blog), I like to think of it as the Man Wing of the house. The following are some pictures of it coming together. I'll have more of a close up of my brewRig configuration in the next blog where I'll chat about my Brewtroller setup and my Arudino Project for Fermenting and controlling kegerator.