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SykomantiS said:
Thought I'd start by playing around with Fermentrack on a raspbian vm, just to see what's what with the installation and interface, but this thing just refuses to install correctly/fully. Can't get it to run. I'm not usre if it's due to the image I'm using for the vm, or the installed dependencies or their versions but this thing is just not having any of it. I don't have an extra memory card to do a clean install on my actual pi, and I'm not ready yet to nuke what's currently on the pi. So far, this has not been fun.
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Weird, I had exactly the opposite experience with installing it, just ran that command and it did everything.
Did it give you unmet dependencies or something like that?
I do know that Thorrak who wrote the code has his implementation running on a Ubuntu VM so it should be fairly universal.

If you run the install as root then you would need to remove the sudo from the command.
 
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After the smokey porter which was a massive success I tried to clone the coffee and condensed milk stout - 24 X440ml bottles bottled. Did a half batch not sure what to expect. Initial tastes are amazing this thing is def a pastry stout. Not sure I nailed the clone but def a great beer. Will crack first one saturday

Its around 5.5%

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Rocket-Boy said:
Weird, I had exactly the opposite experience with installing it, just ran that command and it did everything.
Did it give you unmet dependencies or something like that?
I do know that Thorrak who wrote the code has his implementation running on a Ubuntu VM so it should be fairly universal.

If you run the install as root then you would need to remove the sudo from the command.
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Last step that fails (there might be other issues prior that also fails) is redis. Says can't find redis / redis not installed. But it is, I've even run the pip install redis command manually, when that didn't work, I also installed redis3 (seems python 2.x and python 3.x is installed by default) just to rule out a python version conflict. I suppose I'll have to see about uninstalling python (all versions) and manually installing one version. Just not sure if that should be 2.7 or some version of 3.x


Edit: to clarify, this all is when running the install.sh script manually. When running the curl command as per your post, no errors are reported- it install 'successfully' - simply doesn't work
 
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SykomantiS said:
Last step that fails (there might be other issues prior that also fails) is redis. Says can't find redis / redis not installed. But it is, I've even run the pip install redis command manually, when that didn't work, I also installed redis3 (seems python 2.x and python 3.x is installed by default) just to rule out a python version conflict. I suppose I'll have to see about uninstalling python (all versions) and manually installing one version. Just not sure if that should be 2.7 or some version of 3.x


Edit: to clarify, this all is when running the install.sh script manually. When running the curl command as per your post, no errors are reported- it install 'successfully' - simply doesn't work
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Hmm that is strange, I think its a python 3.x implementation and often there are pathing issues involved with 2.7 vs 3.x
I will try spin up a Raspian VM and see if I get similar issues.
 
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Snyper564 said:
haha i almost lost my first one last week and thought of this incident :p
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When I read his post I still had a hydrometer and never broken that or alcohol meter yet.
That changed the next day when my hydrometer committed suicide.

Replaced it with a refractometer.
 
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Snyper564 said:
I dont use kits -cant comment :) but remember thats just to clarify doesnt impact taste at all
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That's correct, I wouldnt mind clearing some of the murkiness in a Coopers just to make it look more appealing to strangers coz they all ask if i brewed the stuff in a dam.
Maybe i will give it a try on my next Coopers batch and see what happens
 
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I'm not sure how effective (if at all) Irish Moss will be if not added to a boil.
I use it but that's for all grain brewing, so not really relevant to the question.
 
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Papa Smurf said:
That's correct, I wouldnt mind clearing some of the murkiness in a Coopers just to make it look more appealing to strangers coz they all ask if i brewed the stuff in a dam.
Maybe i will give it a try on my next Coopers batch and see what happens
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Time also clarifies a lot beers to be honest. I use irish moss now but my beers after 2 months are clear even without it
 
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I'm not sure how effective (if at all) Irish Moss will be if not added to a boil.
I use it but that's for all grain brewing, so not really relevant to the question.
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Yeah i also do bre in a bag and thats fine for that part.
Was just curious if it would work in a Coopers batch at 25 degrees celcius
 
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Snyper564 said:
Time also clarifies a lot beers to be honest. I use irish moss now but my beers after 2 months are clear even without it
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Yes my Coopers are pretty clear in my opinion. But my friends who drink SAB stuff are astonished at the dam water i brew. I think it looks great but they clearly see some murkiness. Anyways, not a big deal at all. I was just curious
 
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Papa Smurf said:
Yeah i also do bre in a bag and thats fine for that part.
Was just curious if it would work in a Coopers batch at 25 degrees celcius
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You can also use gelatine to clear beer in the fermenter after fermentation has been completed, along with a cold crash.

Fining Your Beer With Gelatin

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Papa Smurf said:
Yes my Coopers are pretty clear in my opinion. But my friends who drink SAB stuff are astonished at the dam water i brew. I think it looks great but they clearly see some murkiness. Anyways, not a big deal at all. I was just curious
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craft ipas/neipas always look like this due to the hops and thats commercial craft not homebrew

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