http://www.wortomatic.com/ The Homebrewing Gadget Site Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:26:54 +0000 pusheject@wortomatic.com (Push Eject) webmaster@wortomatic.com (Webmaster) en-us http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Heated-Keg-and-Carboy-Cleaner http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Heated-Keg-and-Carboy-Cleaner Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Custom-Draft-Tower-and-Kegerator http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Custom-Draft-Tower-and-Kegerator Eric took dispensing matters into his own hands and built his own draft towers on a custom kegerator with fan-cooled four-inch inch PVC pipe! Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Mother-of-All-Fermentation-Chillers http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Mother-of-All-Fermentation-Chillers Mylo returns with a kick-ass carboy/fermentation chiller that makes use of the cooling-power of his existing freezer. Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Carl's-Electric-HLT http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Carl's-Electric-HLT Building an electric hot liquor tank in a converted 15 gallon sanke keg. Carl built in a sight tube, HERMS coil and thermowell. Here is how... Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Useful-Keg-Dimensions http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Useful-Keg-Dimensions What sizes of keg is draft beer available in? These keg dimensions will help you determine what size refrigerator you will need to create a home kegerator or other homebrew project. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Baltobrewer's-Electric-Stand http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Baltobrewer's-Electric-Stand Baltobrewer's New Brew Stand or "How I Went All Electric And Managed To Not Kill Myself" Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Ball-Lock-Bev-Out-Cleaner http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Ball-Lock-Bev-Out-Cleaner Cleaning your beverage outs gets a lot faster with this awesome little gadget from Brewin with Herb! Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Building-a-Basic-Stirplate-for-Yeast-Suspension http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Building-a-Basic-Stirplate-for-Yeast-Suspension Using a stirplate keeps the yeast in your starter not only constantly suspended, but provides constant aeration as well. Erik Beer shows you how to build one. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Remote-Sensing-DIY-Controller-for-Less-Than-$25 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Remote-Sensing-DIY-Controller-for-Less-Than-$25 After building a Son of a Fermentation Chiller and using it for a while. I found a few problems. So I redesigned the controller to use a digital remote sensing thermostat for under $25. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Herb's-No-Fuss-Bottle-Filler http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Herb's-No-Fuss-Bottle-Filler Herb Adams keeps things around 'just-in-case'. He was glad he held onto this piece of stainless steel tubing when he wanted to fill bottles of all sizes right off his taps. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/MyloFiore's-Jamil-O-Chiller http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/MyloFiore's-Jamil-O-Chiller A step-by-set of how Mylo created his 50' copper wort chiller with a whirlpool return for incredible cooling power. Based on Jamil Zainasheff's design. Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/38DD-Mother-of-a-Fermentation-Chiller http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/38DD-Mother-of-a-Fermentation-Chiller I redesigned the Son of a Fermentation Chiller to hold two 7½ gallon carboys and two ½ gallon growlers for my blow off tubes. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Welcome-to-Wortomatic! http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Welcome-to-Wortomatic! After years of maintaining beer pages within our family-centric website the time has come to spin off a domain solely for homebrewing and craftbeer content. Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Binford-6100-Wort-O-Matic http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Binford-6100-Wort-O-Matic After building the Electric Hot Liquor Tank I realized clamping a temperature controller to my brewstand and having wire nuts next to 180°F water was stupid. Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Electric-HLT-(or-how-I-built-a-water-heater-in-a-cooler) http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Electric-HLT-(or-how-I-built-a-water-heater-in-a-cooler) Sun, 7 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Liquid-Level-Doctor http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/The-Liquid-Level-Doctor Boy are we homebrewers lazy! After a lengthy search and considerations of a mechanical float switch to turn the pump on and off, I found this liquid level control board from National Controls... Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Push-Eject's-Brewstand-2003 http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/Push-Eject's-Brewstand-2003 A pictorial of the making of my first all-grain stand. Completed in March of 2003 by a good friend in exchange for, what else, beer. Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000