Riding my bike. I am on tour (look up my older post) and I have only nature without much civilization right now so not much else to do.
But it is slow today, had a cold night and campsite is in valley so I didn’t get sunshine till 9:30 and my gear is still wet.
It will be only rough measurement, you can just take FG in °Pt (Bx) and it is %of sugar so pretty easy to calculate it.
The OP on mastodon is looking only for retrofit non returnable wine bottles.
In the post it is explained that it is meant for reusing wine bottles not buying new ones. And it mostly doesn’t matter that it can’t be used under pressure because it is for syrups and other non pressure stuff.
So these are for wine bottles, it is retrofit with the collar, it isn’t just the flip cap.
The saaz hops aren’t fancy, the noble category of hops only says how it tastes- earthy aroma, with notes of spices.
As for its usage - it doesn’t have much bitterness so it is used for aroma on the 2nd or 3rd addition, that’s it.
14? That’s a long time. My ciders usually last max 1 year - I brew consumables so I don’t archive them (at least for now it was my moto)
There are lots of short animated czechoslovakian cartoons for one of the first programs dedicated for children. It is called Večerníček and there are loads of good cartoons.
I can’t pick one but I was bit surprised that some of them aired more worldwide. For example Pat & Mat it isn’t cartoon (stop motion) but I linked it because it is silent.
If you are really tempted to try it give a watch to these two playlists.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3Z2428mCTqahdOz-tVJ-pGKfg9sTblk
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3Z2428mCTqDFK-3ZSNpZBXJfTaMtRXE
This guy goes deep in all of these methods, how to catch yeast, where to catch them, setting up home lab (if you are in to it), testing strains…
Why do you think I used few weeks old photo?
(Yeah I had too much of it and realized too late that I should take a photo also it didn’t had a photogenic foam.)
The year wait for Christmas specials is interesting idea, but it should be something that can survive the aging.
Yes, leftover brewing or whatever I can find (in case of apples for cider) is the best kind of homebrewing. I am usually pleasantly surprised what comes from them.
Yeah I know the days when anything that could go wrong goes wrong. In my case it is usually my attempts to correct my mistakes that makes it even worse. And I am still genuinely surprised that I made something good.
In our case it is issue of quantity, we have 40l batches and it is too much for one person to pull the bag/manipulate with pots.
We have false bottom pot on lift and it isn’t ideal but still much better than BIAB. It needs some work/ new pot for heating (we got the induction heater for free) and because the bottom valve is bad.
After trying/helping some friends with their systems I think that our setup is maybe the best you can have.
When it’s apple season, loads of people reach me and my friend if we want some. This year we had to stop taking new apples because we didn’t had the capacity to process them all.
Now I have about 40l of archive worthy cider (some was consumed/given away already).
I tried to use wood chips and it turned out amazing.
I will start.
Last month I helped my dad with converting his settup to BIAB. It didn’t go too well, he thought it would be simpler and less work. Tldr it is simpler but it requires more work. So he will probably stay on current settup. We have to upgrade the pots for induction (it is needed after 15 years some valves are falling apart).
It is maybe a little more assuring for me to go for yeast directly from brewery where I can directly talk to someone.
I had some issues with yeasts because the shipping was really slow and it was dry yeasts. These live ones I tried few times and always it was refrigerated on route (covered in cold packs and still cold). I really can’t imagine that it will survive in summer.
So it is maybe only mine prejudice and that I can get good yeasts more locally.
Yes, it is absolutely interesting enough for being here! Unfortunately I don’t trust shipping for live cultures (yeasts and stuff) that much. I can get yeasts from brewery or directly from local suppliers (dried) that I trust little more. So unfortunately I won’t be shopping there :-(
After giving away some juice, we decided to make 50l of simple cider and two test batches with hops (Summit) and spices (cinnamon, allspice, pepper and cloves). Because of weather we had to, fortunately, leave it in little inconvenient space so most of it will end up in bottles and nobody will bother to go there and drink it
Getting bottles ready for filling next week.
Czech (native speaker) and English, but as I am now in Spain I wish I learned some Spanish, nobody here speaks any English. Yesterday some guy told me that only phrase that he knows is “Beer, very cold.” So that’s that.