Priest Brews in Washing Machine

An anonymous writer sends in this story about a priest who has made a brewery out of his washing machine. See his website for recipes and pictures.

A priest?

[Major]

Maybe I'm blind as a bat (and granted I don't speak German) but where did it say that this guy is a priest? Browsing through the website, I couldn't find a mention.

Home Brew

[pez]

For anyone who hasn't tried it, I heartily recommend attempting at least one home-brew batch (if you're a beer fan, of course). For less money than a case of commercial beer, you'll end up with something that tastes significantly better, and it's less work than you would imagine!

If you buy a kit (not Mr. Beer, but a real kit), do a little research, and commit about an hour of your time and two weeks of patience, you'll be rewarded with some of the best beer you've ever had, plus the pride of having made it yourself. Try it, you'll like it! ;-)

Can you get these in the US?

[CaptainCarrot]

American washing machines generally expect to have hot water supplied to them. If I understand this guy's process correctly -- and I might not; I don't read German -- the machine here maintains its own temperature settings. Does anyone sell a machine like this here?

This must be a wonderful story. It's been up for several minutes now, with nary a First Post to be seen. I guess even the trolls love a good beer story.

In India..

[heytal]

In India they use top loading washing machines in restaurants to prepare buttermilk and lassi.

I do not know what they do in Soviet russia though :-)

Re:Slashdot baked???

[Billly Gates]

Well 530 comments just magically appeared on this story. Hmmm

Re:Home Brew

[passion]

Or, join a club... learn a new skill. This is one hobby where the source code is free as in speech, even if the beer isn't.

I've been brewing for about 6 years now [northstatebrewers.org], have won some awards, made some friends, learned some chemistry, and drank a lot of really tasty beer.

Re:A priest?

[Ozan]

He is chaplain in the small village of St. Josef in Oberhausen-Schmachtendorf.

And I thought my computer-controlled beer fridge

[ncc74656]

...would be the shiznit. I'm working on it right now...had the Win2K box fired up to check some digital photos I took of the early stages, checked /., and found this article. I'm working on setting up an Apple II+ as a programmable temperature controller/logger for the refrigerator I use for fermenting and lagering. At this point, I have a Dallas DS18B20 temperature sensor tied to the computer's joystick port through a little bit of glue logic (a 74F00 and 74F125). I've written the routines to read/write bits on the 1-Wire bus and reset the bus; the most I've gotten so far is for the reset routine to tell me if any 1-Wire devices are on the bus. Routines to read/write bytes will probably be the only other assembly-language bits I need; the rest ought to be programmable from BASIC. I'll also have a DS2417 real-time clock on the bus, and a relay (switched through a transistor) on an annunciator output to switch the compressor on and off.

Re:My Sig.

[superyooser]

That's not as unique a thought as you might think. Following is an excerpt relating to John 2:1-11 (Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding) from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible written in 1706.

The beginning of Moses's miracles was turning water into blood (Exodus 4:9; 7:20), the beginning of Christ's miracles was turning water into wine; which intimates the difference between the law of Moses and the gospel of Christ. The curse of the law turns water into blood, common comforts into bitterness and terror; the blessing of the gospel turns water into wine. Christ hereby showed that his errand into the world was to heighten and improve creature-comforts to all believers, and make them comforts indeed.

Of course, there is a very important balance to this teaching [searchgodsword.org] of drinking the fruit of the vine. Drinking to merriment is not drinking to intoxication. Wine was often watered down (1 part wine, 2-3 parts water) back in those days, which was encouraged in the Rabbinic literature. In that light, one could "drink freely" without necessarily being drunk.

Re:Finally - Domestic Appliances for Men

[Ageless Stranger]

I've used something like this, and it works well. Brewing beer really isn't that hard to do...

Re:Finally - Domestic Appliances for Men

[Skater]

My dad has one of those. He loves it!

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--RJ