I mostly brew west coast style beers, but also some European styles, so lots of pale ales and IPAs. I have 8 taps going most of the time, 2 in my brew shed, 2 in my kitchen, and 4 in my garage. The current tap list is:
Project home page: http://beerboi.org
SourceForge project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/beerboi/
The source code for BeerBoi is licensed under GPL version 3.
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My name is Dale Anson, I copied a lot of this website from a previous project called "BeerBouy". That project was an open source version of the Tilt (TM) hydrometer, but then patents and so on, so that project died. I started that project during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. It turns out 2021 still has a pandemic. so a new project. BeerBoi takes an entirely different approach than Tilt or iSpindel, or BeerBouy. I haven't checked on patents, but this is so obvious, I'd fight it in court. (I think. I'm not rich.) I am retired, and have had an interest in electronics, so I've been learning quite a lot with all this pandemic time on my hands.
My background is in enterprise application development, a "full stack" developer as it seems to be called now, using the usual suspects: java and frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Adobe CQ (it has a different name now), various databases, all the front end stuff, html, javascript, css, various js libraries, and so on. I've done a few Android applications, and really got interested in Arduino after I retired in 2014. I have quite a bit of C background, but that is old now, so the Arduino programming was like a reintroduction to all the things I've forgotten. I have a mostly tecnhical blog at https://danson.grafidog.com.
I'm also a home brewer, and have been brewing steadily since 2004. You can find my brew blog at https://itcomesinpints.grafidog.com/
Actually, I made my first batch of homebrew way back in 1981, but it turned out bad, and I didn't try again for 23 years.
Now I brew fairly regularly, my home set up is a single tier, 3 keggle system:
I mostly brew west coast style beers, but also some European styles, so lots of pale ales and IPAs. I have 8 taps going most of the time, 2 in my brew shed,
2 in my kitchen, and 4 in my garage. The current tap list is:
Is it really necessary to have a digital hydrometer? Uh, no. Regular hydrometers work just fine. The appeal to me is it's a small electronics project within my skill set, it's related to my hobby of making beer, and I needed something to do during the pandemic besides just drinking that beer. Yay!