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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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...sober as a preist on Sunday.
Another counter-productive idea. I mean, I have enough trouble trying to convince myself to do my laundry...
Chaos, panic, disorder...my work here is done.
Isn't a washing machine inherently unclean?
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I guess this is better than the koolaid-baited cage in the basement. *runs*
a beowulf cluster of alter boys and washing machines brewing beer? This priest sure can!
*hic* Or, something liek taht.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Now maybe my Sig. will have more meaning.
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Honey, are you through with the laundry?
I'm running low on the hootch.
Maybe I'm blind as a bat (and granted I don't speak German) but where did it say that this guy is a priest? Browsing through the website, I couldn't find a mention.
One useless man is called a disgrace; two are called a law firm; and three or more become a Congress. -John Adams, 1776
.... In a laundrymat?
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
I mean, isn't there a penalty for slashdotting a priest's website?
I don't wanna go to hell or anything...
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
for I have sinned....
I have submitted your website, without warning you, to a geek website, and yea, verily, doth your website die.
The Democratic Party: We've been pussies since 1968!
And this relates to us how, exactly?
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
A beowulf cluster of these things?
No, seriously, a massive cluster of cheap washing machines brewing beer could offer heavy competition to massive super breweries.
What the hell is a priest doing with a brewery in a washing machine? Simply WTF?
The Political Programmer
Maybe I should build one, then I could place it next to the keg-orator.
Paranoid tinfoil hat crowd say Y here, everyone else say N.
He did a fine job too. Strongest wine I've ever tasted.
The parish kids even went out picking buckets of dandelion heads once, so he could make wine from them too.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Ever heard the one about the Priest, the Brewery, and the Washing machine? .....me either
This will finally give reason for college students to do their laundry :)
Who could ask for more?
Brings new meaning to the term "Tasty Suds"!
Not that far out.... I'mnot going to say which appliances I've used fro brewing. :)
-UF
The beer with That special flavor.
is this where all those lost socks end up? if so, I'm not taste testing this dude's brew.
Sounds interesting, but I don't speak German. Can anyone tell me how/why he does it in a washing machine? It seems kinda random to me.
I had a history professor who loved giving quizzes with off-the-wall "bonus questions" at the end.
The quizzes were given orally.
Question #9: "What is a lager" (most people, myself included, thought he meant "logger" and were confused)
Question #10: "What is a beer brewed in the bottom of the barrel?
It was pretty clear to even non-beer-drinkers like myself (I'm probably more ignorant of beer terminology than most nuns) what was meant by the two questions at this point, and those of us with minimal reasoning skills got the two questions right. It was funny to listen to the whiners that said the questions were unfair.
fifth sigma, inc.
He's German. For a second I thought he would have been anything BUT German....
The Political Programmer
Priests brewing beer?
Back in my day we got room temperature Mad Dog 20/20 and a size 12 asshole.
Oh wait...
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Simply amazing... now you can make BOTH types of suds in a maytag.
It took over 100 years, but men can now be liberated from the tyranny of daily washing.
They make bread machines, food processors, even pasta machines. Why not a beer machine?
---- "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
Wow...you'd think a little isinglass and the spin cycle would make a DANDY clairification process!
OTOH, there's something to be said for not stirring up the wort before fermentation.
-UF
This is not news! This is.. is.. STUFF!! AAHHHHHH!
I do hope he doesn't mix his boxer shorts in during the brew cycle.
I once made a still from a mpeg video stream.
Badump-tss.
The only problem is that his beer tastes like laundry detergent.
I now look at my washer with new interest.
It makes a lot of sense, that's how a lot of commercial beer is made: in vats with heating coils and stirrers. The article doesn't say, but I am sure his beer is fermented in a conventional way, the washing machine is just to prepare the wort. And the washing machine is set up for exactly this, better than most homebrewers' stovetop setups. I wonder what his wife thinks about having to do laundry in a pail, but with so much homebrew around, once you get a little tipsy, such concerns are just not as pressing!
Can *you* prove that *you* don't have weapons of mass destruction?
Just testing if this goes through.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
my parents shouldn't mind too much. I mean, they might not even notice... I think I'll go for it.
That does seem a bit strange, you would think there would be a a better place to make beer.
At least the cleanup is easy.
Anybody who brews beer at home knows that keeping the equipment sterile is essential to producing a quality beer.
Using a washing machine is a novel solution.
Hum, I dont think that would go over good with my wife. Also I dont like the soap after taste.
This is the second article from news sites I read with instructions on how and why to brew your own alcohol today. Is today an alcohol-related holiday I don't know about?
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
..it's not as if alcoholics wash their clothes anyway.
<B>note to self:</B> <I>post as html</I>
That's the best way I've ever seen to get away with alchohol you're not supposed to have.
Don't know if my parents will fall for it though...
blessed are the beermakers!
Sort of like... um, socks?
This sig no verb.
I havent seen this type of breewing before. I dont think I could clean all of the soap out. Well I could blow bubbles after drinking it.
I mean, this guy must be drunk. Look at how he's typing:
"Bierbrauen" - WTF? What kind of English is that???
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
This guy brews 30 liters every six weeks, and is quoted as saying "A priest without alcohol, that's the wrong combination."
No doubt about it: this is a man of God!
blog
His clothes will stay dirty until he finishes another project, converting his still into a washing machine.
For anyone who hasn't tried it, I heartily recommend attempting at least one home-brew batch (if you're a beer fan, of course). For less money than a case of commercial beer, you'll end up with something that tastes significantly better, and it's less work than you would imagine!
;-)
If you buy a kit (not Mr. Beer, but a real kit), do a little research, and commit about an hour of your time and two weeks of patience, you'll be rewarded with some of the best beer you've ever had, plus the pride of having made it yourself. Try it, you'll like it!
Wow...everybody in my home loves beer..
;-))
and we have a washing machine...where would this lead to?
Everybody drunk all the time.
No chance to wash our clothes, so they'll get dirty.
So, everybody hanging around drunk all the time, in dirty clothes.
Naahh, then it must be a bad thing to use a washing machine as beer brewing machine...
Wow, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of washing machines used for brewing beer! It'd be like... um... a laundromat! That brews beer!
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So that's what the pope always says when he comes on his balcony:
(hand up) "all you tall italians
(hand down) All you short italians
(hand left) Where the hell
(hand right) Is my beer?"
No wonder the Maytag repairman visits his house every week.
Who's got the first "priest walks into a bar" joke/post?
And his beer comes out sparkling white, too!
The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - H.S.
that would work perfectly with my clothing iron made tuna melt and drier made potato chips.
.smell my feet.
Didn't people go blind from doing this during prohibition?
a decade ago I spent endless nights using my washing machine to get beer _OUT_. Now I find out you can also get beer _OUT_ of a washing machine!
Error Code: beef
Washing machines replacing (or being installed in) huge breweries!
1) Find a way to brew beer in a washing machine
2) ???
3) Profit!
he does not brew on the Sabbath. :)
Great- more broken stories not to be able to post on. What a rarity- seeing 2 stories on the front page with no comments.
graspee
could this be one of those microprocessor controlled washers running embedded Linux, and could it then be open source beer? where's mine?
Everything I've ever learned the hard way was based on a statistically invalid sample.
drinking buddies...
[Think Seinfield and Kramer's Laundromat episode... blah, never mind, it was funnier when I first thought of it]
will work for Karma
On his homepage, the appropriate link is Bierbrauen.
First post?
The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - H.S.
But seriously, surely it has to be hard to sterilise the washing machine between brews? Sure, you could run a couple of empty washing loads through it or something, but I don't imagine that would be enough to clean all those little drainage holes of mash, etc. Sounds like a good way to brew up beer that is going to give you a *serious* hangover. Mind you, if that problem could be solved, I'd be first in line to buy an automated home brew kit!
Heres the best babelfish could do for the "Altbier" and the "Malzbier"
Check out my life
...you insensitive clods. 8^P
Have a fish:
Babelfish Translation to English of: www.m-fey.de
Doesn't help much with those buttons, but the "prescriptions" (recipes) come out reasonably well...
"A priest without alcohol, that's the wrong combination"
he raises an good point...
if jesus could turn water into wine...
a priest should be able to make alcohol in a washing machine...
or is it blasphemy for trying to re-create acts of god...
[echelon]
Religious figures and beer definitely mix... If you haven't tried a Corsendonk brown ale, I highly suggest the experience. Apparently Corsendonk monks in Belgium began the brew in 1400. More history can be found here.
:^)
Also, I noticed the guy doing the washing machine brewing has an amateur radio webpage. Apparently in Germany it is called "amateurfunk".
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He made the source to his brewer program available for download. Gives meaning to "Free (as in beer)"!
Beer is good
This is incredibly relevant to hardcore slashdot readers. Most of us are actually drunk bastards.
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The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer.
Another example of legislation failing to keep up with technology. I'm sure that whoever wrote the Reinheitsgebot would have prohibited using computer-driven washing machines if only they'd anticipated their existence.
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I don't know which is better... a tech-savy beer loving priest, or that they have laws in place for purity of brewing.
Sorry.. just had to.
...bathtub gin!
First toast? :-)
Sheepdot: Open Source good, Closed Source baaaaaaad!
And it takes care of that pesky ring around the collar?
Not only does this prove that "Germans don't do xyz, they do BEER," it is also a sign that American religion needs some serious reform. :)
I speak from experience.
Many people, including myself have brewed beer. I couldn't get it right. Friends have had great batches, but mine always tasted like piss or worse. You really don't need to stir the yeast very much, and certainly not at "hot water" temeratures. Still and clean and quiet is the prope way to brew.
Kids, don't try this at home. The washing machine is the LAST place you want to brew beer.
Get a 5 gal. bucket (sterilized) with a air tihts lid, and an "air-lock" water stopper from your chemestry set in the attic. Boil a gallon of water and stir in 32 oz of malt. Continue stirring and boiling for 15 minutes to release the sugar in the malt. Cool and pour into 5 gal bucket that has ~4 gal of tap water waiting. Gently add the yeast when mixture is luke warm - not hot. stir once with sterile utensile and fasten lid. Leave it alone for 5 days and siphon into sterilized bottles. Cap them at once. Gently always gently, set them aside for a week and good luck.
Or, just got to the packie and drop $50 for a coupla cases of your fav micro-brew.
First Post?
Oh, COME ON! I waited 30 seconds, and it says I only waited 10, and need to wait 20. The purpose of this is....?
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
Damn Germans stole my idea and claimed it was because they're great engineers.
i wonder if thats the same wine priests would give kids before they had sex...
"Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on? Midge, help me out here."
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...that he doesn't brew his own Communion wine!
OK, I've reloaded a couple times already and still no one has gone for the FP so what the hell, right? Where IS everyone? I know you're not all on dates, and this thread IS about beer. What gives? Let's hear it for making your own suds!
Fried ice cream is a reality. - George Clinton
Perhaps "These are the kind of suds that can make your clothes MORE dirty!"
At least he's not making methamphetamines with his computer-controlled toilet.
evil adrian
I wonder what this guy could do with a Whirlpool and Pentium 4. It's kind of scary what can happen when you have too much time on your hands.
So, he's converted his washing machine into a device that makes suds! Err...
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
...posting works again.
You come home from a night out with the buds and the girlfriend or wife nags you about the alcohol on your clothes. Now you can claim they are washed and cleaned...
I am Lord Snowbeam. Heed my call!
Source code
I guess this is a case where open source really *is* free as in beer.
Now that would make a ... smooth...beer.
Insanity is contagious. - Yossarian
Wasn't prohibition over like, years ago?
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
Looks like my college German has degenerated even more than I thought. [grin] But from what I could piece together he seems pretty cool for a priest (good booze, good music...)
A better trick than turning water into wine, IMHO.
blog-O-rama
foldplay your photos won't know what hit them.
... underware ale.
A clean drink and a whole new meaning to dealing with the dirty laundry.
...but this is ridiculous!
I wonder if it makes his belgian white beers, well, whiter.....
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
Score one for inovation and creativity.
Red Green did this on his show about 3-4 years ago. It was hilarious, one of those DIY things that only gets accomplished with an axe.
...and hey, it the ladies don't find you handsome, they might as well find you handy.
- passion
is slashdot down in some horrible way? i see new stories, but not a single post... weird ghost town effect...
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
How do You say "Blueprints damnit Blueprints!! in German?
ICH WILL!
I guess I don't get dirty enough here in my parents basement to need a a washing machine anyway...
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
...with Color-Safe Bleaching agent!
I don't see what's so funny about it, after I read the article (thank-you babelfish), I decided that I want one too.
No, wait.
I NEED one.
Mmmmmmmm beeeeeeeer.
A new spin on brewing
Betcha it does - nothing like that clean taste!
The Master Of Muppets,
CAPTAIN: TAKE OFF EVERY "SIG"!!
I love the fact that Germany has a "beer purity law." Gotta respect that in a country.
Does the US have anything like that?
I'm starting to think this isn't the best place to promote my Anti-Sig Campaign.
"The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer." Is that true in most places?
Anyone who enjoys drinking would realize that the volume of a washing machine would not do well for waste control. Party foul!
I hope he doesn't do his laundry in there too..
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Sounds like my washing machine at home!
It's 11:33 pm. What the hell am I still doing up?
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 the brethren went away edified.
"The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer." Is that the law in most places? I used to work in a brewery and those were the ingredients we usually used, but I never knew it was for legal reasons.
That makes a fine joke: What do you get when you combine a church, a brewery, and a laundromat?
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... but this page seems to have source code for download... I thought it would only be free as in *beer*
I saw a TV programme a few years ago about people brewing hooch in scotland using toploading washing machines.
this make my life worth that much more!
I'm not able to see any comments at all in the first 2 articles.
But can he ferment and 'chocolate' the malt in his accompanying dryer?
10 MD
of course :) It was, after all, Germans monks who invented beer.
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that he is sheet-faced?
That program needs to be open sourced! :)
Most bizarre headline of the day...
Is it a law in most places that the only ingredients you can brew with are water, malt, hops, and yeast?
who broke slashdot? Naughty boys, Naughty boys.
Lets just all hope it's not terrorists or that sneaky slammer nonsense.
You speak German fluidly!
I guess he took some time away from raping young boys to build this. Glad they have other hobbies!
Daddy, why does my laundry smell like beer? Oh, I am telling mommy!!
Please direct all bug reports to
fp!
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
It might do a good job cleaning his clothes
Jason
ProfQuotes
FP!
:P
Nothing better to add
Please, 5 minutes and no first post?????? I'll take the obligitory shot at it, I guess...
:-) )
(Mod this down, moderators!
"If there's hope, it lies in the proles..."
I saw this posted like, an hour ago... I've never gotten first post... guess everyone is out cleaing their washing machine so as to brew their own, umm, brew like the holy man there....
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Ah-ha--I thought the Maytag repair man was looking a bit tipsy in his last commercial!
...has got to be the spin cycle. You drink enough of the beer, and the clothes spin my themselves!
Saves a ton on electricity.
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
There's one there somewhere. At a loss, I just have to say that this is really cool! :)
Seriously though, I've looked into homebrewing hard cider, and come across some pretty decent articles. That would make for really easy cleanup though. Rock on!
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Just the link alone to realbeer.com alone was worth it's weight in, um, beer. GLEE!
this server doesn't have a chance
my last sig was too controversial... now, a new and improved useless sig!
I can see the commercial now:
Its beer.
No its holy blessed beer!
Its clean too.
Straight from the washing machine to the priest for his blessing and on to you the consumer...
Its clean, its washed and holy too.
Washing machine beer made by a priest.
You can't beat that with a stick.
ACK
Considering the other popular "hobbies" among priests, it's probably a good thing he has something to do, rather than somebody's son to do.
But I won't be impressed under he can brew Holy Water and the sacramental wine. Throw in the consecrated host, and you've got Jesus in the Whirlpool. (If you believe in Transubstantiation, that is.)
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Why is something like this on slashdot? Sigh, I guess I'll never understand the compulsive need to drink..
You've got to respect a preist who not only brews his own beer, but does so with an automated (not to mention programmable) washing machine. Not to mention he knows assembler, Amen!
T( H)GSB Apr 21-27
I may be old-fashioned, but I thought priests weren't supposed to drink???
Sorry, honey! I used the yeast instead of the Tide again!
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush!
history repeats itself. :)
what beer from my washing machine would tase like..
For those of you who read German-English machine translations better than I do,
I've pasted one below. Maybe it's just that I'm too lazy to read
closely... but can anyone figure out how the heck this guy cranks enough heat
out of the machine to achieve a rolling boil?
Beer brow with PC and washing machine - we came a report through Jean Pütz and the "Hobbythek" on the idea to brew even once beer. The first attempt took place as INDUSTRIAL TRADE UNION in a vacations warehouse: the groups leaders got given a bottle apiece of "Hankenberger-Lager-Bier of the participants to the end of the warehouse". Did after the Verkostung the question stand: "and when we brew the next time?"
In the following 3 years, there was a row of brow trial with different persons circle. Again and again the problem stood to find a suitable brow container and a suitable Heizquelle.
Three years ago, we had the idea, an old washing machine (Toplader) for brewing umzubauen. Following reasons spoke for that:
Large Edelstahlgefäß with incorporated Heizquelle motor to the stirring and pump to the Umfüllen incorporated are easy and wassersparende cleaning possibility accidentally saw I some days later a suitable washing machine in a colleague stand. It was defective (like itself later laid out, must only the condenser renewed become), and I was able to take it directly with home. So that the geschrotene malt did not fix itself on the Heizstäben and the pump did not clog, a type of giant tea bag was sewed out of material diaper. So the drum in the machine was able to remain and used become the motor stirring.
In a sample conduit - the machine naturally before was cleaned and the flow tube replaced become - was tested, theoretically reasoned functioned should be washed out whether that principle, for the contents materials yes out of the malt into the brow water. When this attempt was arrive, I went at the reconstruction of the machine.
Certainly it would be also possible to serve motor and heating per hand, but I searched for an automatic solution: the brow process should be driven over time sections to be selected freely and temperatures, and also the drum rotations should be freely eligible.
Therefore I removed the electromechanical control and replaced it through a row of relay, that individually can be addressed and drive water and flow, heating as well as motor to the left and/or to the right. The temperature measurement takes place via an electronic building block, that changes the temperature into digital impulses, that delivers water level measurement over a building block, that according to water pressure (=Füllstandshöhe) a corresponding tension, that is changed into digital signals.
The parallel interface of the PC gives the relatively simple possibility to address single tax directions and data directions. Through a C program, the beer brow washing machine is driven now.
A brow process looks now so:
The machine is connected to the water direction, that flow tubes hung out of security reason into the Spülbecken. The computer is connected and the program started. If the temperature is reached to the Einmaischen, the computer gives a signal and holds the machine on. Now the well locked bag with the malt on abundance and the cover is closed. The machine heats now up to the different Rastzeiten, the drum revolves in the intervals determined before. If the purification phase is terminated, bag and drum can be removed. For a better Ergiebigkeit, it is however meaningful let run the Sud in an external Läutergefäß once again through the Maische.
The Sud is heated now on 100 degrees and the hops in a little bag admitted. After an hour, the Sud is finished and can become into the Gärgefäß umgefüllt. If he cooled off himself on 20 degrees, the beer yeast in addition gift prepared before becomes.
The beer later is drawn-off some days of the yeast and in bottles umgefüllt where now the remainder fermentation worries for the necessary carbon dioxide pressure. Some weeks the beer is later finished.
Continuing literature:
Wolfgang left, fairs - taxes - rules over the parallel interface of the PC, Franzis publishing house Munich 1994
Heck, the Handyman segment of the Red Green show had this concept a good 3 years ago.
I dont think it can top Homers bathtub brewing company :)
The bowling ball delivery is the clincher :)
my clothes smell like beer too...i don't write slashdot about it.
Go read some bible: nubible.com
First Post! (?), hand me a beer.
"It's not a sin to make beer... It's a sin to make bad beer!"
its not like you can buy the stuff at stores
It might just be me, but I didn't think priests were supposed to be drinking... Anyway, what kind of priest has a *washing machine* - they're modern, therefore evil, aren't they???
I saw something like this in a village in India 7 years ago. It was used by a stall to make Butter Milk. :-)
sorry no links available
Ack...friday night, no one's looking.
Wait, why does my brew taste like Tide?
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
I'm just itchin to burn some karma on this one.
;)
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First Priest!
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
Aren't priests not supposed to drink and stuff? Or am I just misinformed?
oh hell... first post.. what about ring around the collar...
FIRST POST!!!!
ill come up with an actual post later...
YOU SUCK BALLS!
I guess it's better than him trying to wash the blood of 13 year old boys out of his underwear.
And while you're at it, visit this site for more entertainment and horrible humor.
...
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This sounded like something I'd usually see on Rotten, until I read that the priest was brewing beer in his washing machine, not that a priest got brewed in his washing machine.
Time to go watch some Disney cartoons or something.
Suddenly I feel like going to church again.....
Oh no! It's been two hours since this story posted and there are no comments! Did the sun explode and I not know about it? Are aliens landing and everyone's watching it on CNN? Did rapture occur and I not get taken!?! Did... Oh nevermind, it's Friday night.
This statement is false.
I really need more practice.
a beawolf cluster of these!
*ducks*
The beer tastes like old socks...
Free book: Science Toys You Can Make
Scheiße!
does the priest get moderated as "realistic" for this?
C|N>K
Yes, Beer is good
...that in heaven there is no beer.
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# Canmephians for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.net";
I wonder how expensive it is? Could be a cheap solution for other home brewers to implement...
"And I'm right. I'm always right, but in this case I'm just a bit more right than I usually am." - Linus Torvalds
This is a very interesting idea, albiet a bit controversial. Seriously, what would be the first thing to come to mind when you hear of a priest brewing beer in a washing machine at home?
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think much good publicity will come from this...
I've got the yeast and the hops, but where do I get a 4 gallon drum of holy water?
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
I wanted to tell everyone about my Great-Grandfather, Colonel Augustus Heineken, who pioneered this technology way back by converting a Laundromat into a world class Brewery!
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Cig:
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What does he do for an encore? Make pretzels in his dryer?
Hmmm... the "priest" has a website and he also brews beer.
I am worried...
ok, seriously.. A PRIEST???? If that aint the weirdest thing ever... btw, FP??
tcpa SUX!!!!
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! Oh wait..that would be a laundromat.
Tide Ale, the tastey bleach flavor give it that nice kick! And it removes the puke from your shirts with no residue too!
What'll they think up next?!
Here I was thinking that priests were meant to be pillars of the community, not getting pissed off their nut on the cheap.
37 - what does it stand for really...
mmmmmkay!
-Mogur
Mark me offtopic if necessary, but is this the longest a Slashdot post has ever gone without a post???
Sig.i>
Frist Prost!!! ...not likely since this story has been up for over 2 hours and yet no posts????
/. hiccup...
I'm sure we'll be seing a post mortem of this little
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guess he should be just about ready for Oktoberfest come the fall considering how much homebrew he's allowed to make :>
"A priest without alcohol, that's the wrong combination," he said. "Jesus didn't say, take this healthy camomile tea, he offered wine."
Amen, brother.
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What are some other strange brewery devices?
Don't say car radiators as those have too many problems associated with them.
Heh..First?
You have got to be kidding me. That has to be the oddest, most random sentence I've ever seen (including my .sig).
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
Man, it's amazing what passes for news and stuff that matters here these days. Brewing in a washing machine? What crap!
It's not offtopic! I'm drunk!
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
This man is my new official hero. I'd just hope that the beer wouldn't get a soapy aftertaste.
However, it might be nice to drink and leave my breath with that Mountain-Fresh straight off the line feeling
Hmm, it seems that no one bothered to comment. Perhaps I will.
Considering that Priests/Clergy have been making alcohol for centuries, this doesn't seem all that odd. Replace the traditional tun [vat/cask] with a washing machine.
Pretty straightforward, really
Blocklevel: Practical Information Architecture
This brings new meaning to the phrase home brew!! I am proud to be a member of the Beer Liberation Front. The best beer in the world that is Micro brewed So, now if only we could write a linux kernel to make a better less filling beer.
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Um...what do they use for baptisms in Germany? Heineken? What the hell else is the priest brewing alcohol in his washer for? I mean, if he had a wine distillery or something in the machine, that'd make sense.
how long until I can make caffeine w/ my washing machine!?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
to enjoy this. You just have to like beer.
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... a Beowulf cluster of wasHIC!ng machines...
They still cant make little boys with a Mr. Coffee(wheres yer god now?)
This is the second story with no comments posted. What's up?
OK, so I've got the hops, malt and yeast, but where do I get the holy water?
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
Ahh. Good beer and smelly clothes. That is the life.
-Sean (fp?)
"A priest without alcohol, that's the wrong combination," he said. "Jesus didn't say, take this healthy camomile tea, he offered wine."
Wow. If we had priests like that back home, I might have actually become a christian!
Based on an older idea? http://chattanooga.net/~cdp/wrims/wrims.htm
Karma to burn
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In India they use top loading washing machines in restaurants to prepare buttermilk and lassi.
:-)
I do not know what they do in Soviet russia though
Dude, that's freaking awesome!!! I want one.
SealBeater
-- Its survival of the fittest...and we got the fucking guns!!!
just as strange as brewing beer in a washing machine.
ausge-(burp)-zeichnet!
How do you get the beer stains out?
Neck_of_the_Woods
#/usr/local/surf/glassy/overhead
First, here's a link directly to the actual bear part of his site: http://www.m-fey.de/brauen/.
Now for the benefit of those of us that don't speak german, anyone want to tell wtf he's talking about?
So, THAT'S what that machine is for...i've been wondering...
singned.
Stinky.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
I wonder what advantages the washing machine provides? Secrecy?
Any one here who speaks German here who could point out the specifics of using a washing machine in the beer making process? Thanks in advance.
better a brewery from a washing machine than a toy from an altar boy.
Don't park drunk, accidents cause people.
It's amazing what you can do with a washing machine.
I only hope he has another washing machine for his clothing because no cop would believe
"Well officer I make beer in my washing machine, and thats why my clothing smells like alcohol."
What does this guy do for an encore make pretzels in his dryer?
i guess this brings a new meaning to "free-as-in-beer"
Only 5 liters per week? In my day we drank three times that amount per week while stumbling to school uphill both ways!
505th post?
Don't give me none of this "nature theme" business.
This thread is a wasteland. Five pages of comments, not one rated high enough for me to see without clicking on it.
This one included.
Heh, this has to be one of the worst slashdot discussions EVER. Last I looked, there were about 500 posts (mostly one liners) and half of which were modded to 0 or below. Of the remaining posts I skimmed over, a few were modded funny, and I saw not one insightful post. Someone must have something interesting to say about this article...
I wanted to tell everyone about my Great-Grandfather, Colonel Augustus Heineken, who pioneered this technology way back by converting a Laundromat into a world class Brewery!
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Boy...something's gone funny. No comments then BAM lots of comments.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
In himmel das ist keine beir
Ja ja wir trinken hier
Und wann wer sind nicht hier
Unsere freundinen trinken alles bier
or
In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer
the no
LinuxBierWanderung! A computer-controlled beer-brewing washing machine? Just try to keep the Linux geeks away!
the no
Offtopic? It's funny.
If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?
or as Russel Lynnes said:
If you can't ignore an insult, top it;
if you can't top it, laugh it off;
and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
There's a law in Germany, Reinheitsgebot.
God bless Germany.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
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a lot of moderators who don't care enough to sift through the trolls to look for posts to mod up ;)
A list of beer for the dish washer:
http://www.tobp.com/humor/systems.shtml
I am a homebrewer, and I don't really understand what part of brewing a washing machine can come into play. The english article mentions temperature control, but I can't imagine how a washing machine could do the type of temperature control needed for making beer. During the mash (early stage) you need to keep a high temperature (around 150F) for at least 4 or 5 hours. But the water can't change. Its part of what will become beer!
During fermentation of lagers (which he is probably brewing if he is German, and if he is brewing the beers linked on his page) you need to keep a constant LOW temperature (around 40F?) for weeks. Again, I don't understand how a washing machine could help accomplish this...(unless he has a 2nd container inside the wash tub, and circulates consistently cold water around it?)
The great thing about brewing beer is you don't really need any mechanical machines. Its more about temperature control and keeping everything sanitary.
...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.
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& you can then set the machine to do cold, warm or hot washes.
But many machines, such as quite a few European frontloaders, also have their own instantaneous line heating elements in them (the opposite of a draught beer cooler). These are often 3 phase & consist OF 3 rods in a tube in which the water runs past. So if you only a cold water tap in the laundry you can still do a warm or hot water wash. Some also have heating elements for the tub, so if you're soaking stuff overnight in a outhouse laundry in rural Bavaria, you washing won't end up frozen.
You can also brew beer in a bending unit, thats called benderbrau... ;)
The way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher value them who think alike than those who think differently
Is it just me, or was that whole article just a big advert?
The machine is connected to the water direction, that flow tubes hung out of security reason into the Spülbecken. The computer is connected and the program started. If the temperature is reached to the Einmaischen, the computer gives a signal and holds the machine on.
I think he's using the computer to bypass the washing machine's temperature gauge so that the washing machine will continue heating the water until the computer tell it to stop at 100 degrees.
Don't forget that in Germany they use Celsius (crazy metric system). So you'll want to heat your water to 212.
No, but it'll stain the rest of the shirt to match!
Slow down cowboy, you got too drunk and replied to an online discussion.
That is a un-inforced 'no-no'
Have a nice day now.
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Relying on slashdot to get washing machine mod ideas? Ack no! All you'll get are neon light inserts, acrylic panels, and maybe a Matrix Orbital display w/ backlit keypad to replace the dials on the top.
How would theming your washing machine help brew beer?
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
No it isn't, but it is an issue when you're distilling, not brewing beer. (Other replies already explain the methanol issue.)
Fermentation is a natural process; distillation just speeds that process up.
Fermentation is the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
Distilation is the processes of concencentrating the alcohol. (Or more generally the process of separating volitile fractions based on differences in boiling point.)
>Big difference between Beer and Wine
Sure is. Wine contains *far* more alcohol.
I put the 'fun' in fundamentalism
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Gives new meaning to calling it "suds"
First, IANARC (Roman Catholic) and I'm not sure this priest is a Roman Catholic. (My German is practically non-existent)
Anyway, Catholics are imbibers. They are typically not contaminated by American Calvinistic teotalitarianism. (This is equally true for Lutherans)
The key is moderation, which can be a huge problem for many people, priests or not.
Yes, it's a blog. Sorry if that offends you.
now literally.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
do the work of the devil. Good thing he is keeping himself busy. You know what happens when preists get bored. (Well some preists) Good for him!
There's the added bonus of getting to drink non-pasteurised beer.
Pasteurisation really does make a world of difference, and not in a good way.
Over-intoxication
Could this be your chance to shine like the fucking asshat you are you worthless dick-goblin? Go back to San Francisco and stop wasting my time. Your mother runs embedded Linux in her uterus and look at the shit that has produced. You are the most stunning example of why Linux should never, ever be placed on a critical system. Microsoft loves having you to trot out at industry conferences you fuck.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
What kind of man are you???
...should complete all your brewing work in little time. I have a friend that works for a cattle rancher and they visit all the beer breweries early in the morning to get free grain after the brewers are done with it. Apparently, the brewers soak the grain in hot water to remove the starch and this is what they use to supplement/make their brand of fresh beer. Free grain means a nice free/hot breakfast (add sugar and cream) as well as a free meal for your cattle...and boy, they collect thousands of pounds of grain! You wouldn't imagine how much beer people demand to warrant such a high volume of grain!
You are supposed to exploit your resources to the fullest! Pick any laundromat durring the hours of 11:00pm and 3:00am, bring 5 lbs of slugs (fake quarters), and brew to your heart's content!
Can you imagine...A BEOwulf cluster of brew...
But I'm sure you already Gnu that.
I brew some pretty damn good beer in my toilet. I found that brewing it in the tank (not the bowl) and then flushing it, with a pump in the bowl that gathers about 60% of the finished beer, creates a very aromatic beer and a great flavor. Oh yeah, and I cut some raisins in half and toss them in to increase the alcohol content.
you'd never see anything as useful or as creative coming out of South Dakota or Guadalajara
Read it at: http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html
Does getting flamed by a Microsoft Troll on a "bad medication day" qualify me as a l337 linuX haXor? I hope so. Hey, I once edited my .bash profile...
/., I have arrived!
Thank you
Everything I've ever learned the hard way was based on a statistically invalid sample.