{"id":813,"date":"2014-05-15T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:21:01","slug":"bulldog-hammer-of-thor-lager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/bulldog-hammer-of-thor-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog Hammer of Thor Lager"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"500D_2210\"<\/a>I’ve not done a lager kit, so whilst trying to sort the Saddlers Sav, I purchased this kit.\u00a0 I am playing it by the book, with no additional sugar (apparently some people do this to make the beer more continental.\u00a0 Or something.)<\/p>\n

I did all the usual things but at the end I decided to put the bucket in to the cellar with the arduino temperature control.\u00a0 After a long chat with a friend, who works with similar controllers, and also reading some threads on the web, I tweaked the settings, nd what a difference it made.\u00a0 The temperature is now spot on target at all times.\u00a0 I have arbitrarily selected 20\u00b0C.\u00a0 According to some of my reading, it is a constant temperature that matters with lager, and I am certainly getting that.\u00a0 The cellar is pretty constant at 16 degrees – despite it being 25\u00b0C outside (my office would be way higher than that now given passive solar heating).<\/p>\n

\"2014-05-15<\/a>The main problem with the arduino is the aesthetics – it is a cardboard box (sound proofing) with wires coming out in all directions.\u00a0 Not ideal, but I am very happy with the laptop that is powering it – mum and dad’s old mini10 running lubuntu.\u00a0 The current state of play can be seen on the head up display<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve not done a lager kit, so whilst trying to sort the Saddlers Sav, I purchased this kit.\u00a0 I am playing it by the book, with no additional sugar (apparently some people do this to make the beer more continental.\u00a0 Or something.) I did all the usual things but at the end I decided to … Continue reading Bulldog Hammer of Thor Lager<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bulldog-hammer-of-thor-2014-05"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}