alzymologist
@alzymologist@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Anyone have tips for working with peppers in your brews? 2 days ago:
Christmas!
- Comment on Anyone have tips for working with peppers in your brews? 1 week ago:
I use peppers for mead a lot. Usual drill: throw them after bubbling slows down or the smell will bubble away.
A couple of good, ripe habaneros is good for 5L. Don’t use scorpions, they add sting but no other flavor, while habaneros are quite flavorful.
Capsaicin does not have any notable effect on yeast, it’s neurotoxin, after all.
- Comment on Final update on American Brown. 2 weeks ago:
Now that I think about it, do you remember how and, more importantly, why IPA style came to be?
Although modern “IPA” with less than 5% ABV is nothing like the good old one, and nothing like what I brew for that matter.
- Comment on Vesuvius 2 weeks ago:
The light finds its way. Modern lighting (especially bright stuff I use for lab lighting) is less harmful than sunlight, but still harmful and broad spectrum. Compared to foil consumption on tools sterilization, this foil is nothing.
- Comment on Final update on American Brown. 2 weeks ago:
I’m running this experiment too now.
- Comment on Final update on American Brown. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know! All I know is that those that were stored for about 5 years were still getting better.
- Comment on Final update on American Brown. 2 weeks ago:
Try saving some for aging, properly made homebrews, unlike commercial packaging, store for ages and improve marvelously. Nobody told me this when I started.
- Comment on Vesuvius 2 weeks ago:
Those are quite transparent to harmful part of sunlight unfortunately. With light blocking devices, even a metal bell is less environmentally sound than foil - detergent and water to wash it occasionally have more footprint than a few meters of a few micron thick disposable aluminium.
- Comment on A mushroom consistently causing hallucinations of around a dozen of lilliputs 2 weeks ago:
I see human faces and figures whenever hallucinating mildly, even from exhaustion. That’s the simplest thing to interpret for our social brains probably.
- Comment on Vesuvius 3 weeks ago:
Nah, shipping alcohol is a nightmare. I’ve tried that, it could get criminal quickly if you are not extremely careful.
Although, why don’t we all give it another try, together?
- Comment on Vesuvius 3 weeks ago:
Just a single layer of thinnest foil to stop the light. This beer is quite light and needs this more than most, but I just wrap every fermenter that has any hops traces.
I estimated the real ecological costs at some point and it seems that they are near zero, even recycling the foil would make things worse, unless I just burn it for hydrogen. I do sometimes.
- Comment on Vesuvius 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but sufficiently low temperature would harm the phenolic profile madness, not something I’d do at home.
If I had an industrial fermenter, I’d probably try installing a sonicator head near the exhaust pipe orifice on the inside, coupled with gas phase, and just pop the bubbles. Like they do in waste fermenters sometimes.
I’m advocating against 100+L fermentations in general, that’s where industrial moves start to infringe on artistic part imo. Besides, local population has severe drinking problem and overcompensate, whenever I share a bottle with someone, they sometimes don’t touch it for months - I could start homebrewing daily and make more than my village can drink.
I keep returning to idea of having super local brew houses, brewpubs, but local food place owners don’t want to mess with it. National anti-drinking laws force people to drink pissbeer and cheap spirits.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 11 comments
- Comment on I'm proud to say that I've joined the Homebrewing community! Brewed my first beer today, an American Brown Ale. 5 weeks ago:
Nope! Just did it a few days ago with a setup mentioned in another comment here.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 5 weeks ago:
Well it’s not like there is whole lot of stuff shipped from US to EU. The trick is, digital services sure would not be tarrifed (and if they are, users would still have no choice but to pay).
- Comment on I'm proud to say that I've joined the Homebrewing community! Brewed my first beer today, an American Brown Ale. 5 weeks ago:
Hey welcome to the club!
Cover the bottle with something, light spoils the hops flavor even in dark brews and dark rooms. Kitchen foil should be more than enough.
This setup is surprisingly enough for almost everything one might need, if you are creative. Get a hydrometer early on though if you haven’t, it’s really a helpful tool.
I find induction heaters really nice to use, after using a gas burner for years, I’ve got a few induction ones and don’t plan to go back (one is outdoors, industrial unit mounted on a wooden rack). They are often pricy, but my 1200W unit was 50 Eur at most popular local supermarket and managed to boil quite some batches (industrial one was 10x that, it’s a beast I needed for other purposes).
If you keep evaporating a lot indoors, especially in colder weather, you’ll have condensation and might end up with mold and construction materials degradation, unless you set up proper exhaust really close to the boiler (make sure it draws well and whatever gets condensed in the line goes somewhere). Well, problems might start after several years of intense brewing probably, so don’t get too stressed about this.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, he’s been doing this stuff since I first read about him in 2010 or so; yet now, thanks to Trump lol, things look differently.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 75 comments
- Comment on Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world. 1 month ago:
Hey, are these on bandcamp?
- Comment on Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes | Quanta Magazine 1 month ago:
damn I saw this content in 2007 in “scientific american”
That dude has an awesome hobby.
And I drank beer with that Natelson later. Memories of old times, different world.
- Comment on Is it mold? (More pics in body) 1 month ago:
Sanitation? Username checks out lol.
- Comment on Is it mold? (More pics in body) 1 month ago:
Funny thing is, apparently, yeast can metabolize fat - according to Dr. White, they can use available fat instead of synthesizing their own using oxygen on growth stage to build new cell walls. It’s not a lot of fat they need though, but quite measurable amount, and only on exponential growth.
- Comment on Is it mold? (More pics in body) 1 month ago:
Looks like chunks of berries, not like mold. How did you rack exactly?
Sniffing it is your best analysis available. Just scoop some and sniff, if you don’t like it, you won’t like the rest!
- Comment on Feeling brave: made a blueberry stout 2 months ago:
And what is total volume?
We had 200g/L of blueberries in mead (which is quite clean) and that was OK, but with hops and all this amount might be lost.
We’ve made belgian style witbier with bilberries from forest recently. Those are still maturing, will post about them later. It was about 150g/L, which was quite balanced against witbier.
- Comment on PhD student or imperial harem? Same thing, I guess. 2 months ago:
With or without publications, they are concubines. They get raped, and that’s the best things that happens to them.
In the west, we don’t have fancy harems, so they are just whores.
- Comment on Chemistry lab safety: gloves or no gloves 2 months ago:
Nah, you should never wear gloves blindly, but fit them to type of hazards. There are published tables, preferably, use ones from your safety authority and ones from glove manufacturer. Misusing gloves is indeed a serious violation of safety codes and a hazard.
There is also anti-industrial common sense stance, but you wouldn’t be asking this question if you respected that.
- Comment on DIY Retained Heat Stockpots for efficient slow cooking? 2 months ago:
We’ve made shitty dewars by packing vermiculite flakes scavenged from shipping containers (many retailers might have a box filled with these) between two jars and sealing the gaps with epoxy. They might degas though, but that’s manageable.
In the end though, well designed oldschool baking oven beats this in everything except footprint.
Also saw someone using just single overheated iron pot on gas stove as tandoor.
- Comment on "butter" beer 3 months ago:
lol came here to write this. No-brainer, really, you could have all the butterness in the world easily by being naughty!
- Comment on A few photos from yesterday's brew up (beer) 3 months ago:
I’d recommend dissolving the salts in water before it is added to mixture, otherwise it may not dissolve completely over mashing time and might be not homogeneously distributed.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?s 3 months ago:
Certbot complained about invalid files structure… after 18 successful updates over the years. Seriously, those guys should put a bit more care into updating stuff. Of course, the fix was trivial.
