What he came up with is a very simple yet very effective fill level sensor ... On the bottling line, the device has 99% accuracy for both red wines in dark bottles and whites in green bottles.

The solution was to build a dubiously placed, but nonetheless awesome custom bottle filler in his kitchen ... and a T to splice into the existing water line going to the fridge.

Bottle-filling lines, plant-support equipment and material-handling assets will go to auction on Jan. 28 in a food-and-beverage industry online auction by Tiger Group and M Davis Group. The assets are ...