alzymologist
@alzymologist@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on DIY Retained Heat Stockpots for efficient slow cooking? 3 days 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 2 weeks 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) 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 4 weeks ago:
Make melomels!
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 5 weeks ago:
If you have a brewer supply locally, totally just invade them. The job is usually quite boring, they LOVE initiating neophytes.
- Comment on Are portobello mushrooms cancerous? 5 weeks ago:
There might have been some context where he stated that? I haven’t seen this in his works, not that I’m sure I’ve seen all of them.
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 5 weeks ago:
Another way that prevents bottles from exploding is corking with wine corks slightly slices across to hold a thick thread that wraps around the neck to hold the cork against pressure. It’s quite weak seal that should pop before the glass.
My friend once had some bottles of sparkling hard cider bottled like that (naturally explosive), left for a trip in winter (Texas), temperature went below freezing, so his landlord (old redneck lady with confederate flags and deer skulls on her house) went into his place and turned on gas stove. Sure she forgot to turn it off when weather normalized to regular +10C, so when he came back, it was hot sauna with apple flavor, but no broken glass at least!
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 5 weeks ago:
Actually, I remember how I started: I’ve got a kit and waited for a while with it. Then dumped all of it and just bought fullgrain ingredients, no regrets at all. Starting with a kit seems like harder path with less sure result from my current experience. Maybe it’s a way you should consider too?
- Comment on Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit 5 weeks ago:
On top of what other said, there is a trick to plum: they usually ferment quite nicely (I recommend Lalvin RC212 yeast) but the trick is to bottle condition them for 5 years minimum. It is absolutely worth it.
Don’t go for lambics though, they are tricky and until you understand exactly why, I don’t recommend it. They are totally not newbie stuff. But aim for plum christmas ale, that’s very easy and just in time to try!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Refractometers start to be really off once you have fruit juice and ongoing fermentation. I use mine only to see if reading is changing over time, absolute value is easily off by 20-30 g/L
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Nice setup!
My neighbour just got too large grapes crop this year and I took some (about a month ago). Juiced them (never tried this before), the juice was 1040, bumped it with honey to 1120 or so, pitched mead yeast, thus now I’m running a similar experiment!
- Comment on World's most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves 1 month ago:
Didn’t know it has any effect now! Thank you!
As for content, I guess our knowledge groups strayed too far apart, which is totally fine. I still would think that if people posting these links added a few words of their own that would be awesome.
- Comment on World's most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves 1 month ago:
What is reader mode and how do I turn it on for these websites? I got so many invites into some scammy mmorpg websites and dating apps like I haven’t seen in last month.
- Comment on World's most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves 1 month ago:
this particular “popular” write-up of research is exquisitely long and non-informative, hardly a piece of information in many screens long article filled with ads. Maybe this place deserves original research links with a few poster’s comments?
- Comment on Test Batch Setup with Wet Hops 1 month ago:
Those beautoful cones! I wish I got some, but my vines did not flower this year at all.
Is that sous videt device? How simple is it to clean actually?
- Comment on two sides 1 month ago:
Baroque cycle is quite a book about that.
- Comment on two sides 1 month ago:
That’s intellectual property, copying is no theft when credit is given, and sure he did give all the due credit to God and them some more.
- Comment on two sides 1 month ago:
Actually it’s the other way round: mostly nigredo in alchemy, as it’s by far largest part, and in physics he literally invented the rainbow.
- Comment on Rock crushers 1 month ago:
Well…
Finnish word for bolete is kivitatti - “rock mushroom”
Russian word for this group of similarly looking boletes is “моховик” (“moss thing”)
Which particular variety is this I am not sure, I understand they mix with each other somewhat, but probably Samettitatti which translates pretty much same as Russian word for the whole group.
- Comment on Cool Project? 1 month ago:
I’ve been watching this project for like 10 years now probably. Keep returning there for blueprints of something relevant, but it’s either too immature or something that does not fit my setup. I think they are too unified and their scope is unrealistically broad for the group, while contributing remotely is not realistic. Their house would not work in my climate, their tractor is worse than random assembly from junk you can randomly find. Their aluminium electroliser is soft sci fi.
But it is certainly cool project.
I just think we need more specialised open hw projects and keep exchanging links to them.
- Comment on Rock crushers 1 month ago:
They just grow from some 2by old crack probably, still look awesome.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on Pseudohyndnum gelatinosum 1 month ago:
Any advice on setting up home barcoding setup? Been thinking about it for a while and will hopefully have some time to mess with it soon.
- Comment on Probably n00b Question - Mead Brewing 1 month ago:
Right, “professionals” care about autolisis, they filter the stuff afterwards anyway or sell musty immature stuff. Neither is cool for mead - but waiting is not cool for business.
- Comment on Probably n00b Question - Mead Brewing 1 month ago:
I don’t rack clear mead. It settles perfectly after a year or so, wait till laser beam goes through without any scattering, don’t agitate the bottle and give it time, mead really gets better on the long run.
Also, the more yeast you have, better is precipitation. Any rush makes imperfectly clear mead that would seem clear but would just settle in bottle later. This is a bad shortcut, don’t rake it.
- Comment on Raspberry witbier 1 month ago:
There is no chance anything would survive with fresh vigorous yeast and at high alcohol levels/low oxygen on secondary. I used to sanitize berries in my first attempts, but later found it to be unnecessary. I even boiled my first mead!
Sometimes I freeze berries though, but only to save them till beer is ready, or to promote conversion in cranberries or rowan.
- Comment on Raspberry witbier 1 month ago:
Yes, it was fermented for a week or two before addition of berries, and about same time again on secondary. I do not use kegs at all, those are just glass jars with locks. Most simple gear. This gorgeous foam comes from just a bit of sugar priming on bottling.
Putting berries in primary is imo not very good approach: mostly because most of the flavor would bubble away, but also because there is somewhat higher contamination chance.
- Submitted 1 month ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on Whizzing up some Centennial Incognito 1 month ago:
some of the compounds we like best in hops are not water soluble and depend on the alcohol to pull them out of the dry hopping. I wonder if this product changes that calculus
Even if they are extracted into this fluid (for example, with polyalcohols, maybe just sugars), they still might crash on “fermentation” of nonalcoholic beer, whatever process is used. Maybe if these are strictly nonfermentable polyalcohols and at the same time highly soluble in various conditions (maybe even at 0C fermentation, as one of possible production ways), this might work indeed.
