I have two fermenters. One is a 6.5 Gallon jug, which has plenty of headspace, and the other is a 1 gallon wine jug which I turned into a fermenter. The wine jug is particularly nice since you only need to divide by 5 on the entire recipe to get exactly what you need. In [...]
Archive for December, 2008
23 Dec
OpenSuSE 11.1 is full of win, but new ATI drivers, maybe not
Phortunate the Phoronix Phaggots knew what to do. ATI has had a horrible problem with their drivers in 64bit mode since day one. I’m working on a Dual Core Pentium 4 64bit with an ATI x600 Radeon card here. OpenSuSE 11.1 is a dream but has it’s share of bugs. Ah, the joys of operating [...]
17 Dec
Linux Arcanum and SMART Warnings
If Languages Were Religions is riotously funny.
I finally figured out what’s wrong with my desktop. For the longest time the instrumentation was just weird. It would crash randomly, have strange bus problems (which I thought were related to aging video cards), and the voltage from the power supply would have a noticeable bit of noise [...]
14 Dec
Revised, Revised Mash Tun
All the naysayers who said there would be epic failure were right. The screens collapsed in on themselves once the water level dropped. It probably wouldn’t have happened on a fly sparge or if I doubled up the screens but I just said to hell with it. With the right tubing being under $20 for [...]
12 Dec
The Spoils of Wort: The All Grain All Nighter
God favors the fools and drunkards. We were both tonight.
Best guess: OG was 1.060, but the wort was hotter than it should have been (thermometer was barely reading at 90F) and I needed to add about a half gallon make up water.
Wort is cloudy as hell.
All the naysayers who said the screens wouldn’t work [...]
10 Dec
Stuff I Think is Cool at the Moment
The following post is about beer, distilling, and growing plants.
Stuff I still find amusing: Distilling. Made from ebay parts, this is surprisingly easy. But still entirely illegal if done to make liquor. However, this is required if you want to distill fuel. Like ethanol. With an octane rating of 113, ethanol is a great fuel [...]
4 Dec
God Bless the 2nd Amendment
Although why the FDA is involved is beyond me.
The Palm Pistol (via slashdot) is a really good idea.
