[foodhackingbase] distillation questions, experimental incubator PS last push

[Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck]

Thanks Arnd! I've to wait for the thermal grease but once that is in, I 
can finish up my prototype. One thing which I wonder about is how 
difficult would it be to make the H-bridge from the darlington arrays 
which I have here ...

Talk to you all soon,

FAA

On 2014-05-09 21:23, Arnd Marijnissen wrote:
> AFter the general members-meeting of today, i might have more time to
> look into these types of things.
> 
> To be honest; the alcohol-thing, I have no experience with. The
> Experimental Incubator is def. on my mind. The possibilities to make it
> with a nice custom PCB and have it (more) extensible than is currently
> the case is something I'm working on.
> (using arduino pro-mini units (1.96$ on ebay), freeing up IO-pins by
> using different buses.. etc.
> 
> Anyway; given the work involved with the association here, at hte
> moment, i've not been having much time to do anything else than work on
> things relating to the hackerspace.
> 
> Hope to reply on the incubator soon.
> 
> --
>  Arnd
> 
> 
> On 05/09/2014 02:19 PM, Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>> So questions on the "distillation" and "alcohol making fhb public". I
>> would like to run one run for distillation without any fruits just
>> water, light brown sugar, yeast nutrition and the yeast in 20 l
>> stainless steal container and I wonder what is the optimal amount of
>> sugar based on your experience, 4 kg lets say (it was recommended to
>> me)? I was also advised to keep the final alcohol content around 4-6%
>> because of the best flavour, over 8% of alcohol is suppose to stress 
>> the
>> yeast and produce off flavours, what do you think? Alcohol resulting
>> from this brew will be used mostly for "maceration" of fruits etc.
>> Another experiment will be "citrus fruit" run made from kumquat
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat
>> 
>> we can harvest up to 100 kg for free but they are however not organic. 
>> I
>> would like to make one experiment for distillation and one just for
>> "kumquat ginger beer", plus another one where I probably mix kumquat 
>> 1:1
>> with sugar for preservation making an extract like we did last year 
>> with
>> plums which is here called meshil and which you could taste at 30c3 
>> and
>> during our last food hacking tour around Europe.
>> 
>> Anyway any ideas and recommendations are welcome!
>> 
>> I'm not posting lately too much because I'm really busy here with
>> starting up the gardening season and our brewing "business model" you
>> will hear about both soon, I'm starting to think and soon work on a
>> private and fhb news letter, quarterly edition would be nice I think.
>> Also I'm hardworking on the field earning money for our living here,
>> plus importantly I'm mobilizing my self for the last push concerning 
>> the
>> experimental incubator. I'm virtually two hours worth of work away 
>> from
>> the final version (without H-bridge but well fine for now) for around
>> two weeks so it sounds like time for forgetting about perfectionism 
>> and
>> just doing that - I basically need to insert the heating/cooling 
>> element
>> in already cut box (commercial cooler box), that is it but how to do 
>> it
>> properly is a question - seems easy but I'm not playing with these
>> manual things enough lately so I'm horribly out of shape, not that I 
>> was
>> ever a star and it shows ... Any motivation ideas and help with making
>> me doing that would be greatly appreciated! I really want to see three
>> prototypes working now, and one of them needs to be here with me so we
>> can document, tested and start to work on the improvement for 31c3, 
>> time
>> is running you know ...
>> 

-- 
Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck

biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker

http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org

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