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Article #6365Help! Thermostats and Beer!
From: Jeff Berton
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:38
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:38
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Part of brewing beer at home involves heating a barley malt and water "mash" at certain temperatures for certain time intervals. This converts the malt starches to fermentable sugars. Needless to say, standing over a pot on a stove with a thermometer and stirring spoon for a couple of hours is the least desireable part of brewing! I'd like to get some sort of feedback-loop control system that reads the temperature of the mash from a thermocouple and turns my electric stove on and off. Are there any science supply mail-order companies that sell thermostats like this? I called Edmund Scientific's 800 number for their catalog. According to the machine I spoke to, I only have to wait 4 weeks. Any other recommendations? -------- Jeff Berton; jeff344@voodoo.lerc.nasa.gov; (216) 977-7031 -------- --------- Aeropropulsion Analysis Office, NASA Lewis Research Center -------- ------------- "If headquarters is interested, we're interested!" ------------
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!lerc.nasa.gov!jeff344 From: jeff344@lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Berton) Subject: Help! Thermostats and Beer! Message-ID: <1992Sep10.203856.9940@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov Nntp-Posting-Host: voodoo.lerc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jeff344@voodoo.lerc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:38:56 GMT Lines: 16