Brewing Beer with Elixir

Our equipament

Brewing Beer with Elixir, Nerves & Raspberry Pi 🍺💻

One of the most exciting and fun ways I got deeper into Elixir was when I started experimenting with Nerves and Raspberry Pi to automate the beer brewing process — all thanks to a weekend project with my brother-in-law!

We were curious: Could we automate temperature control while brewing beer using Elixir? Turns out the answer was yes — and a perfect excuse to hack on hardware and enjoy a cold one afterward.

Lab 1

We Found Brewberry Pi

We started exploring and quickly discovered an amazing open-source project:
👉 Brewberry Pi — an Elixir/Nerves-based beer brewing controller.

This project gave us a solid foundation to begin with. It used Nerves to run on a Raspberry Pi and came with support for temperature sensors, GPIO, and real-time control via a web interface.