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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.
*hic* Or, something liek taht.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Now maybe my Sig. will have more meaning.
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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 :)
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.
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
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, 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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Source code
I guess this is a case where open source really *is* free as in beer.
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.
...that in heaven there is no beer.
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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
No, that's an urban legend. Fermentation is a natural process; distillation just speeds that process up. If this is badly done, it will give people a stomachache and/or headache (which may be a typical reaction anyway), but the only way it will cause people to go blind is if there are impurities (read: poisons) in it. Things like methanol (wood alcohol) or solvents like turpentine, will cause blindness, and some people put those.
Now, there's a good probability bleach was in that washing machine at some point, and that is a poison, so it's possible he'll go blind from the bleach, but not from the alcohol component; i.e., what he's trying to make.
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
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
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.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
You can recirculate the wort during the mash, and I believe most commericial breweries stir the grain and recirculate water during mashing.
This will help keep the temperature more or less constant throughout the grain instead of having hot and cold spots.
German lagers often use a complicated temperature cycle, starting at cool temperatures and having a rest at various different temperatures on the way up, to allow different enzymes to do their work.
This is very difficult to do using some other home brewing methods, and require adding measured amounts of hot water and restirring at various times, or mashing in a mash tun with a thermostatic heater control.
The washing machine would also have the benefit of the drum acting as a grain filter, so just run a controlled rinse cycle to do a good sparge.
I copied this sig from someone else (but where did they get it from?)