Beer Brewing Bender Completed 113
An anonymous reader writes "The Beer Brewing Bender Project is finally completed. This is a fan built, full sized Bender from Futurama featuring a 6502 CPU powered brain to make him speak triggered by a prop remote control straight out of the show. Inside his body is a beer fermenter used to brew up a batch of real Benderbrau beer!"
I hide my face in shame (Score:5, Funny)
Aslo: where can I buy me one of these?
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Get that robot some more beer! (Score:5, Funny)
Poopenmeyer: It's time to take action. [He presses the intercom.] Stephanie, cancel the maid for today. Have her come tomorrow. [He leans back into his chair.] Well, I'm out of ideas. Anyone?
Farnsworth: Wait! If we could build an object the exact size, density and consistency of the garbage ball, it might just knock the ball away without smashing it to bits.
Leela: But where can we find a substance the exact density and consistency as garbage?
Farnsworth: Alas, I don't know.
Fry: Uh, what about garbage?
Farnsworth: Good Lord! A second ball of garbage! That just might work!
Poopenmeyer: But garbage isn't something you just find lying in the streets of Manhattan. This city's been garbage-free for 500 years!
Fry: Then it's time to make some more.
Poopenmeyer: Make garbage? But how?
Fry: Stand back and watch the master! This Slurm can. [He knocks it on the floor.] Now it's garbage. These papers. [He sweeps them off the desk with his hands.] Garbage. This picture of your wife. [He drops it on the floor and the frame smashes.] Pure garbage. Now you try it.
Poopenmeyer picks up a pencil and drops it on the floor.
Poopenmeyer: By God, I think the boy's got something. Come on, everyone! The fate of the city is at stake!
He turns a chair on its side.
Fry: Good! [He turns to Leela.] Don't finish that cruller, throw it away [Leela throws it on the floor.] Bender. Drink that beer and drop the bottle on the ground. [Bender throws the bottle on the floor.] Very nice.
Poopenmeyer: Get that robot some more beer! [Bender smiles.]
All I can say is... (Score:5, Funny)
Kudos on a truly awesome job! Looks great =)
Brewing Time (Score:3, Funny)
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1. Clean and sterilise the bottles. I use 750mL plastic PET bottles. A batch of beer will fill 30 of them.
2. To each bottle add sugar. I use sugar drops and add two per bottle (see below). The additional sugar is to allow for extra fermentation in the bottle. This is what causes the beer to have bubbles.
3. Remove the airlock from the top of the fermenter to allow the beer to flow freely.
4. Warm your hands (Not normally necessary but Bender insisted on this step before letting me near his tap).
5. Slowly, with each bottle tilted to avoid frothing, fill each bottle from the tap.
6. Tightly cap each bottle.
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Cheaper then Kool-Aid!
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And she says she's going to plant hops along our fence line this Spring (since hops have become so expensive of late).
What a woman!
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That's a problem I'd love to have!
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Life begins at 60...60 IBUs, that is. :-)
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Uh, you're going to be bottling in CLEAR bottles??? As as experienced beer brewer, I recommend that you DON'T use clear. The best bottles to use will be brown, followed by green (which I never use). I'm sure you've heard it before, but light is the enemy of beer. It'll skunk it quickly. The Grolsch bottles are okay, but sometimes those rubber seals will fail, and then when you bottle-condition t
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Corona (Score:1)
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If you DO use clear glass make damn sure you keep your beer away from sunlight.
I'd also be worried about how thin the glass for those bottles is... exploding bottles are no fun at all.
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Hey, don't knock it until you've tried it. Knocking back 2 litre plastic bottles of Borgio Beer on the steppes of Mongolia is damned near my favourite travel moment ever.
Of course, I think all my tastebuds had been killed by a fortnight of vodka and airag anyway, but it sure tasted good at the time.
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Can you say "oxidation," boys and girls? (I speak from experience...not knowing any better at the time, I bottled my first two or three batches this way.)
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piss pour, even
Fixed that for you.
And yes I'm going to punster Hell - the deepest level reserved for those who dare to be punny. (for the love of god someone stop me!)
Re:OMG Bender has a TARDIS (Score:5, Funny)
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The real question is did you have to look it up?
I am such a nerd.
Yeah, I didn't take the time to memorize the code when I was watching the DVD, or pay too much attention to exactly what the digit sequence was. But for posting here, of course, I wanted to get it right. :D
But I did learn that there's a very simple way to remember it... it's a count from 1 to 6 with a mirror-imaged copy... Funny how the secrets to the universe have such a simple basis.
It's an Ale! (Score:2, Funny)
Way down under (Score:4, Interesting)
I wish I was versatile enough to know how to wire up a 6502-based audio board w/wireless remote AND do the basic carpentry AND the fiberglass and painting AND brew beer. He's even got an arc-welder, as seen in his video of him destroying his HP printer (link on the last page of TFA)
Hell, my wife wishes I knew how to change a washer in the bathroom faucet.
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Basic woodworking, fiberglassing, painting, and welding are all fairly simple skills -- they just take a bit of practice. Being an artisan capable of earning a living doing any of the above may be a different story, but hobby-level skills aren't all that hard to learn. That leave the electronics, and, well, this is slashdot, so you likely know that or know someone who would love to do a project like that.
If you really want to learn other stuff, check with your local community college, see if they have any intro-to-X type evening or weekend classes that'd fit your schedule. Most community colleges have some sort of intro-to-welding class, and I'd imagine a basic carpentry class isn't uncommon.
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To start with it's a bit of a stab in the dark to learn arc welding (bad pun doesn't apply with the more expensive face sheilds) but it only takes a couple of hours to be able to stick some simple stuff together.
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But quite worth asking somebody who already knows how to do it for some tips and maybe a lesson or two. Arc welding isn't like juggling. Lots of things can go badly wrong.
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Or hit Make magazine (Score:2)
All the skills you need for anything like this are easy to learn or look up in Make.
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An amazing guy (Score:1)
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Coral here! [nyud.net]
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With blackjack, and hookers...
In fact, forget the mirror!
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With blackjack, and hookers...
In fact, forget the mirror!
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Suck my.. (Score:5, Funny)
Gives new meaning to a head of beer.
Wow! (Score:1)
Yeah? well (Score:5, Funny)
Great (Score:1, Offtopic)
Unlikely to run Linux... (Score:1)
"Anyway, Linux didn't last long
Maybe a few opinions of his supergeekdom will change based on that line alone!
PS New Zealand is the greatest country in the world.
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Woohoo! (Score:1, Funny)
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Bender OS (Score:3)
I'm just guessing here, but wouldn't Benders preferred OS is Olde Fortran.
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It is pretty safe
Misread the summary... (Score:1)
Aside from welcoming our new shiny-metal-ass-and-overpowered-brain-overlords I was rather stunned how you could cram that amount of chips into something less than the size of a small home...
With apologies to Pimpbot (Score:4, Funny)
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Smut on Page 2 (Score:5, Funny)
Here's another link (Score:1)
I thought Bender consumed alchohol, not made it. (Score:5, Funny)
Fry,"Whatcha doin Bender?" Bender,"Drinkin my own fluids."
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6502? (Score:2)
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T800? (Score:2)
I always thought that the T800 was a Transputer [wikipedia.org].
The 6502 sucks. The Z80 blows it away any day!
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cool bot, poor beer (Score:4, Informative)
I used to brew some beer myself and the home kit the guy is using makes for pisspoor beer. And also beer from plastic bottles!!! blasphemy
You want to be using real ingredients not the beersyrup this guy uses. Real barley and hops. Most small breweries also sell to individuals.
Heat the barley in a pan with sufficient water (as in how much beer you want) and look up a schematic for the heating. Essentially this means heating your mixture to a designated temperature and keeping it there for a period of time. Different temperatures make the barley release different sugars. there are different temperature schemes. Experiment with a few you can really see the difference.
Add half your hops at the beginning and the other half halfway trough the heating process
Then strain your beer a few times until it has the desired clarity (can be influenced by the type of barley)and cool the mixture down so the yeast survives when you add it. It is good practice to activate your yeast before adding
The beerbender does use a handy fermenting vat. These are actually quite cheap. Keep the beer for at least 1 week at around 24 degrees celsius
The botteling is next. If you like beer you surely have some glass beer bottles. Buy a bottlecapper and some caps. Again really cheap.
You can use sugar drops to get the CO2 in the bottle but about 2-4 grams of plain sugar also works. I like using some honey as it can be tasted later.But an absolute winner is the brown caster sugar
cap the bottles with the sugar and again wait for minimally 2 weeks at 24 degrees before consuming
this way you can vary your beer way more than using some kit. You can experiment with different barley,hops,heating schemes,yeasts,storing times,straining and sugars.
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And to rinse off the NaClO solution, just use DI H2O or mild ethanol.
And I guess we're crazy in that we use the dregs off of beers we like, obtain 2 samples in which one is for yeasts and 2nd is for both yeast and bacteria, and proceed to use "commercial" beer.
Our harvesting of Grand Cru and Gulden Drahk have proved very successful thus far.
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Even the local brewery (Bloomington IN) uses pressed caps.
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I am a homebrewer, and the method you described is just one of many different ways. The temperature for boiling the mash, the times for addition of the hops, the types of barley and hops used, even the type of yeast will all affect the quality and flavor of your beer.
If someone on Slashdot is interested in starting a homebrew project the best place to start is with this book [howtobrew.com]. It gives basic instructions
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I doubt it will be awesome, but there's a reasonable chance it won't be disgusting. It's clear that he is using hopped (pre-bittered) LME. [homebrewtalk.com] He's not adding any finishing hops for taste/aroma, but I bet the malt/bitter balance is going to be about right -- I've used hopped LME a couple times, and it contributed an even balance. I wouldn't use it in some kind of hop-showcase APA or IPA, but for a gener
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For those wanting to get into homebrewing (Score:2)
Midwest Supplies will sell you kits ranging from the basics, doing your fermentation in a plastic buc
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Here's my $0.02 of Things I've Learned Homebrewing. Doing this will make sure you get a nice drinkable brew, and not a container full of Septic System Helper:
Aside from the rack-over tubing and bottling wand, the beer should touch only stainless steel during the boiling process. I use a plastic funnel to assist in transferring the wort from the pot to the carboy, and haven't had any i
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I am in no way, shape or form affiliated with the following company, but have used them for years in my own home brewing adventures. They're based in Arizona, but ship all over the place and have some pretty decent prices. They sell kits (basically pre-packaged recipes) or individual bags of barley, hops, yeast, etc.
Check out http://www.brewyourownbrew.com/ [brewyourownbrew.com]
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First of all, you're absolutely right that his beer is probably gonna taste like crap (or "sparkling pond water" as John Palmer puts it). That said, there's nothing wrong with using extract, or "beersyrup" as you call it (though admittedly the pre-hopped stuff is worthy of derision). A lot of award-winning beers have been made from extracts with steeping grains. M
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Yeah I know my post is flawed
I typed it up in half a minute and forgot the boiling of the wort (thanks for the word wasn't sure it was the same in English). I also didn't mention the cleaning and sterilizing part. I even forgot to include the formulas for the amount of the ingredients.
Sorry about that but the links everybody else gave seem good enough.
As for the extra work of grain brewing. It only costs you an hour and a half or so more. In my opinion worth it.
And again seek out a local brewer. They don't
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Just stay away from the prehopped crap and don't try to make a lighter lagers. Use some crystal and darker malts, with real hops and good yeast cultures, and you can make some award winning beers.
Not so impressed... (Score:1)
The king of geek cool (Score:1)
Now that Bender can brew... (Score:1)
- America's favorite suicide booth since 2008
An old /. favourite... (Score:3, Informative)
While his server hasn't become a smoking ruin, check out his TARDIS MAME console [asciimation.co.nz].
Which makes me a biger geek? (Score:1)
Do they know yet??? (Score:2)
I hope it's a lager so I can take it to a ball game.
Yeah but... (Score:2)
New Zealanders (Score:1)
Another such project
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ [asciimation.co.nz] (I see now on the same website)
LOVE this comment... (Score:2)
"It was about this time I was out with a girl I knew having a drink in a little bar in town. I was staring out the window and thinking about how I could make my own cabinet."
Yep, the guy is a true-blue, 100% signed up member of the geek community! Fair play.
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