tasankovasara

@tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to try birch sap sparkly wine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s not going to be strong. However, having tasted birch sap before I’ve got a feeling there will still be a distinct taste there after the sugars have been fermented, and that’s why I wanted to try this. I have a forest industry book about all the things in trees apart from fiber and lignin, and from there I know that the sap has got all kinds of interesting constituents, so this could turn out to be a health cava :D Concentrating the sap would surely boost the taste, but that’s not in my interest for this experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to try birch sap sparkly wine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great idea, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First ever homebrew!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice looking brew! Congratulations and welcome to the slippery slope XD

• Going to try birch sap sparkly winesopuli.xyz ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨using regular agricultural barley for making malt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be interesting to experiment with how long one lets the germination to go on before roasting. And of course DIYing the malt opens up opportunities for smoking and such. So a lot of opportunity there, but certainly no savings to be made, since roasting is energy intensive and best done in large batches.

• Beer with lemon, take 2sopuli.xyz ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that with all that killing of single cell life forms, no beer could ever be vegan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to do a second attempt at a lemon infused beer next. Last one had a single lemon in 22 L of beer and the taste didn’t come through at all. How many limes per how much beverage did you go with?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How your Christmas specials turned out?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoying the sahti-stout here alongside the usual Christmas nutritional overload. Pretty soon I’ll run the rest into bottles and free the Kegmenter for next run. For that one I’m looking to adopt some yeast pups from @alexander 's selection :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making sure I have some sahti this Christmas, because nobody sells it near me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same same! Yesterday was brew day for a Guinness-dark sahti x stout. It was my first beer recipe and this run is the fifth time making it.

  Traditional sahti is very well available in my area (not the case for all of Finland) so my stuff can be a bit less trad: 1300 EBC black malt and some Simpsons caramalt backed with a hint of rye malt and standard issue Viking sahti-malt. A particular fresh yeast is the only required ingredient according to EU authentic produce guidelines, that’s what’s bubbling mine. Cheers & merry Xmas!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crafty ideas to spin a 'whirlpool' needed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment right here, Santa Claus :D

  Thanks a ton! Makes perfect sense, this is what I will be doing from here on.

  To pay it back a bit - I have a trick that reduces the hops gunk a great deal already. Couldn’t find a pic of the product itself, but I put hop pellets in large tea infusion bags. The pic there at least shows the size. Clip the end shut with something, maybe put a glass or steel ball in there for weight if you need them to sink. I just let them float, the boil will roll them around. One bag takes only 15 - 20 g of hop pellets due to swelling, so there will be several bags in the kettle.

• Crafty ideas to spin a 'whirlpool' needed
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've made a yeast lab in Finland⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finn & a hobbyist brewer & chem engineering person working IT because cash here :) Advertising is the right thing to do, I’ll certainly be placing an order or two now that I’m in the know. I’m in a sahtipitäjä and know some smaller and bigger brewers. Let’s see where this goes :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your setup. no matter how uggo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t but join in the fun. Meet the Egg Mini. Does all sorts of humble servitude, but the coolest thing is a webserver only accessible via Wireguard through HAproxy running on a Digital Ocean droplet.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished my ‘try and see’ cider batch. Three kinds of apples from the yard, juiced at the juicers, plus a homeopathic 22 g/L pale ale malt. Fermented to fully dry in 17 days at 14 C and 1,8 bar. After that a couple days at 2,5 C to clear it out. Plenty of forced carbonation. Came out a bit mild, like a dry white wine, but that made it easy to drink. Gave most of it away in 3 L bags, because I want to get the vessel empty and get a beer going.

  Lesson learned: much more acidic apples next time, and the malt wort needs to be as concentrated as possible so it doesn’t dilute the apple juice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now is proper.