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Re: Help! Thermostats and Beer!

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From: Massoud Ajami
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:54
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In article <1992Sep10.203856.9940@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> jeff344@lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Berton) writes:
>From: jeff344@lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Berton)
>Subject:  Help!  Thermostats and Beer!
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:38:56 GMT
>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!" ------------

Try OMEGA 1-800-826-6342, you need CNxxxx series controller.


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