Brewing your own beer by hand is soooo 1992. You can now automate most of the process using an Arduino controller and some source code over at Halfluck.com.
As for materials, you’ll need an Arduino board, an LCD and serial board, two temperature sensors, four push buttons, four solid state relays, one 2400-watt heater element, two perastaltic pumps, and one spit motor.
The system, once assembled, can apparently whip up a pretty consistent batch of beer and can be remotely controlled and monitored. As for the copious scrubbing and disinfecting involved with homebrewing equipment, you’re on your own for that.
Halfluck Automated Brewing System (HABS) [Halfluck.com via Make]
Cool, or you could go to the store and buy your beer and have someone to sue if you get sick from anything that wasn’t properly disinfected.
Eric must be fun at parties.
Eric doesn’t know anything about beer, either.
Beer can become infected, in which case it tastes disgusting. No one would continue to drink it, and if they did, it wouldn’t harm them at all. No known harmful pathogens can live in beer.
Although this is something I could picture a bunch of college kids doing on their free time, just save your time and energy and go buy some real beer. Now if you were making home made whiskey or something else, then I’m down for that. http://ziggytek.com/
cool… i should try this at home..:D