Black Beer Tragedy

To start, the current EKA is the best. The soft water is the way to do this in the future. The lower temp and the starter helped generate fewer esters. I'd bet next week it will clean up more and taste even better. I think the next time I brew, I will brew even colder, with more yeast, and a starter. That should make it as clean as possible. Then we can add in some crystal malt and a little amarillo and then I think I've got my beer.

Some things I learned recently.
- You can make beer fizzy by shaking it up but you will also put all the yeast in suspension and the blonde beer will be yeasty for a week or more until it settles out.
- Beer lines need to be small in ID, large in OD, and long. I saw a way on the internets to use that really tiny fridge water lines. I'm going to try that. http://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/1te7c8/how_to_14_icemaker_tubing_beerlines_great_pour/

Ok now for the reason of this post. The temp control box has died. I believe it happened during a brown out a couple of days ago. It appears that the brown out caused the file system to become corrupted. The pi is unable to be booted at this point. It makes me sad. I have backed up the code so that's good. But not the temp data or the logs. I may be able to mount the drive on a linux box and extract some of those pieces of data. I'll try that later. They are not a huge loss. The worst part is configuring the box to execute the code I wrote. Permissions needed to be set up. Configurations to make the serial port behave a certain way at power up and so on. Those will take a while to remember. What I think I need to do is figure out a way to clone the drive so that I will be able to quickly recover from this issue in the future.

Worse yet is the potential status of the beer. It is a lager and I wanted it to be kept at 52F for a few weeks. It has warmed to the garage temp for the past few days. I sampled it and it is finished fermenting. The FG is 1.010 and it tastes good. So I think I will leave it at the current temp until I keg it.