plactagonic
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- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 4 days ago:
Non lethal munitions/weapons are not so non lethal as people think.
Crowd control or demonstration control is another complex problem that can’t be solved by some magic bullet. It is more psychology game when the police tries to look threatening in place where people can easily overpower them.
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 1 week ago:
Yes, it is just lots of different kind of fruit thrown in 80% ethanol.
It is fun to do it on small scale, like one jar is enough, you will probably need to process it differently on that scale.
Here most people with that amount of trees just distill it to make “slivovice” but I heard that people try different things.
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 1 week ago:
Depends on a kit, the malt sirup is shelf stable but hops and yeast is definitely bad. Just try something, follow the instructions for start and you will see if you like it.
I don’t know much about plums other than distillat so can’t suggest much on that.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I know, it is really handy for checking OG then it gets skewed by alcohol. For bottling I use my hydrometer to be sure, I just don’t want bombs.
When you measure often you can correct it, but for me it isn’t worth it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This brew is only about the fruit. The beer is just simple decoction with Pilsen and Münich malts (~50/50) and just SAAZ hops, I call it leftover ALE just what was left from other brews. After I added the juice it got to 1045 OG so it isn’t even that strong.
It is bit strange right now for me because I got new hydrometer that is calibrated to density, but until now I mainly used °Bx/°P units and even got portable refractometer with both units so something I measured in one and some with other… The juice was ~15°Bx
- Comment on Wild yeast kernza saison 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking a bit about the issue with the enzyme activity - it is a problem with rye malts. But with 85% of pils malt it just isn’t an issue.
I think that with rye ~50% is the ratio that is possible to achieve quite easy.
- Comment on Raspberry witbier 3 weeks ago:
So you just throw some berries in to secondary?
I will finally make my cherry beer next week (had a issue with strong ale so I didn’t had free fermenter), so I am interested in the use of berries.
My plan is to put some in primary and then put few in each bottle, because I don’t have the setup to bottle from keg.
- Comment on Oktoberfest! 4 weeks ago:
I will brew this Friday. After deciding what I will do bit wild experiment with grape juice, cherries and some classic leftover ale. I will add only basic hops so the fruits came out bit stronger (SAAZ for flavour and some leftover bitter ones).
Tbh I never tried intentionally age beer that long usually it is some forgotten bottle found and I am bit surprised if it’s good.
- Comment on Chicha 🇸🇻 1 month ago:
It’s quite easy and microscope is unnecessary for this. Basically you spread it on petri dish and each dot (colony) originated from one cell.
This yt playlist goes quite deep in to it, you can follow it as instructions for yeast home lab.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Also I will probably delete it from here in a week.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah it looks bad, two pictures attached, one showed here on Lemmy and covers all my screen space. Maybe I won’t pin it…
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 1 month ago:
And single berries macerates are good too, I did few years back something with currants and this year cherries in rum (simpler than canning them).
I didn’t look that much at the Belgian beers but I thought that they go in fresh. Maybe I can try some Belgian style with cherries (in rum).
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 1 month ago:
My garden, granddad’s garden, what neighbors gave us…
When you have a tree or berry bush you get lots of fruit to deal with it. So it is the stuff that we got tired to make jams from or the harvest was so small that it didn’t make much sense to use it otherwise.
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 1 month ago:
Yes but I am still bit surprised that even the oranges we throw there just for fun got red.
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- Comment on Lemon, ginger and lemon balm beer 2 months ago:
Also for beer you have some unfermentable sugars, so you can’t achieve driness by just fermenting, you have to use enzymes to break them down completely to fermentable ones.
So scientifically speaking it is dependent on the “substrate” (what you ferment) and yeasts.
- Comment on I wanted to do this for few years... 3 months ago:
This is maceration not fermentation but I unintentionally did something similar with red currants and wine. I don’t know how I made it but it was partly fermented with sugar wine and vodka (or some other clear distillate) to add more alcohol to be stable.
Found bottle few weeks ago and it was amazing, I forgot about it after I tasted it and don’t liked it few years ago.
I don’t like distillates that much, bit too strong for me, but basically fruit+bit of sugar+time+still and you have some eastern Europe pálenka/slivovice (from plums) or other “moonshine”.
- Submitted 3 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on Where's your towel? 5 months ago:
Sorry dangling from the outside of my bike panniers…
- Comment on I made a killer wort :( 5 months ago:
Btw this can be found by just using iodine solution to test it. I think that it can be found at pharmacy. Your wort is quite dark but it is doable to test it.
Put few drops of wort on plate, on side the iodine and look for colour change on the border where it mixes.
- Comment on What's brewing? April 2025 5 months ago:
Really nice experience - 9 completely different beers, it was more local so I was bit of curiosity but I had really good chat with few people there.
Yes some stout with bourbon, beer brewed with spruce, tripels and more. Every beer just tasted completely different.
- Comment on What's brewing? April 2025 6 months ago:
Yesterday I crossed the border, tooted on mastodon and someone told me about local craft beer fest…
I think that the first day in Belgium was really great.
- Comment on What's brewing? April 2025 6 months ago:
Yeah, I changed my plans again few weeks ago.
I met someone that I promised to show her the beer culture in CZ, so I am taking train from Brussels to Czech to meet her there in few weeks. I will skip the German/Netherlands part.
But the craft beer scene is, according to people I talked to, biggest around Barcelona. Sometimes you just randomly find some place like NASA brewery in Pontevedra (I liked it, really nice place).
- Comment on What's brewing? April 2025 6 months ago:
I live in CZ and beer is mostly water so it doesn’t make much sense to ship it that far and we have lot of small brewerys. They usually experiment somehow but not much of them got to Belgian styles.
I had few Belgian beers, one pub have sometimes few bottles, but not that much. That’s why I am going to Belgium…
- Comment on What's brewing? April 2025 6 months ago:
For me obviously nothing much in the brewing sense but I will be in the next few days in Belgium so at least some good beer after these few months.
Didn’t like that much Spanish beer, but the craft beer scene here starts to pick up and they have some nice refreshing IPAs and other ale styles (the commercial beer was nearly undrinkable). Similar in Portugal, but the craft scene isn’t that big.
I didn’t had single beer that I would consider talking that much about in France, the blonde just isn’t for me.
- Comment on Hi I just started testing home fermenting to expand the hom cookbook. I have a few questions. 6 months ago:
Now that there is a thread about your bomb, I just want to add that for most things you don’t exactly need fermentation cap (the bubbler). Some cloth over the top is enough.
If it doesn’t stink I would just taste it.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Both of them? They made game for each election.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
If you are interested in foreign politics:
You had to get our former president and ruzzian asset to vote.
- Comment on Mead - what type of bottles 8 months ago:
Just to add I don’t brew mead I want to try it sometime but didn’t hot to it yet.
- Comment on Mead - what type of bottles 8 months ago:
I like bottles that don’t need special tools to close. So swingtop or even pet (if it is something I will drink soon).
