[foodhackingbase] distillation questions, experimental incubator PS last push

[Arnd Marijnissen]

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 ...
>