Hey guys,
A friend and I have set ourselves on the course of creating a fermenter with some 'premium' features.
Our solution would communicate with a computer, reporting various facts and figures and giving us the ability to monitor a brew and have it communicated in nice graphs etc. (Because we like graphs)
Essentially we want to create a fermenter that has the following features 'built in':
+ Monitor and control the temperature of a brew
+ Monitor current alcohol content
+ Setup brewing 'profiles' for a brew. This allows you to track what steps you went through, down to the temperature at all times and ensure that this process is carried out later once you hit on that 'perfect' recipe.
+ Give you the ability to CC straight away
+ Alert you via email/sms that a brew is finished a certain stage (and ask for permission (or notify) to go to a new stage, such as CC, bottling etc)
Display all information and history for brews such as temperatures, time taken for each stage, show you graphs. Email it to you, put it on a webpage. Let you send it to others (step by step recipes!)
A couple of questions about this though:
Is this idea silly? Has it been done already?
Are there any other features we should try to add to it? We're after making this the be all end all, so nothing is too big or too small.
I'll be asking more questions about this in the future and post some photos etc if anyone is interested.
Thanks,
Danni
A friend and I have set ourselves on the course of creating a fermenter with some 'premium' features.
Our solution would communicate with a computer, reporting various facts and figures and giving us the ability to monitor a brew and have it communicated in nice graphs etc. (Because we like graphs)
Essentially we want to create a fermenter that has the following features 'built in':
+ Monitor and control the temperature of a brew
+ Monitor current alcohol content
+ Setup brewing 'profiles' for a brew. This allows you to track what steps you went through, down to the temperature at all times and ensure that this process is carried out later once you hit on that 'perfect' recipe.
+ Give you the ability to CC straight away
+ Alert you via email/sms that a brew is finished a certain stage (and ask for permission (or notify) to go to a new stage, such as CC, bottling etc)
Display all information and history for brews such as temperatures, time taken for each stage, show you graphs. Email it to you, put it on a webpage. Let you send it to others (step by step recipes!)
A couple of questions about this though:
Is this idea silly? Has it been done already?
Are there any other features we should try to add to it? We're after making this the be all end all, so nothing is too big or too small.
I'll be asking more questions about this in the future and post some photos etc if anyone is interested.
Thanks,
Danni