Priest Brews in Washing Machine

An anonymous writer sends in this story about a priest who has made a brewery out of his washing machine. See his website for recipes and pictures.

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Can you get these in the US?

[CaptainCarrot]

American washing machines generally expect to have hot water supplied to them. If I understand this guy's process correctly -- and I might not; I don't read German -- the machine here maintains its own temperature settings. Does anyone sell a machine like this here?

This must be a wonderful story. It's been up for several minutes now, with nary a First Post to be seen. I guess even the trolls love a good beer story.

And I thought my computer-controlled beer fridge

[ncc74656]

...would be the shiznit. I'm working on it right now...had the Win2K box fired up to check some digital photos I took of the early stages, checked /., and found this article. I'm working on setting up an Apple II+ as a programmable temperature controller/logger for the refrigerator I use for fermenting and lagering. At this point, I have a Dallas DS18B20 temperature sensor tied to the computer's joystick port through a little bit of glue logic (a 74F00 and 74F125). I've written the routines to read/write bits on the 1-Wire bus and reset the bus; the most I've gotten so far is for the reset routine to tell me if any 1-Wire devices are on the bus. Routines to read/write bytes will probably be the only other assembly-language bits I need; the rest ought to be programmable from BASIC. I'll also have a DS2417 real-time clock on the bus, and a relay (switched through a transistor) on an annunciator output to switch the compressor on and off.