plactagonic

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What are you brewing? in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@homebrewing this months photo is from tour of local brewery I was on last week. It is the bottom of the primary fermentation tanks - cylindrical-conical tanks. They are 8m in diameter and 26m high. If I recall correctly they can take about 4 batches which is what they brew per day (in 24 hours, in season they brew 24/7 5days per week).

From outside they look like this:

Outside of the CK tanks.

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What are you brewing? (f.cz)
 

What are you brewing?

How did your special beers for Easter turned up? Do you have something ready to drink or are you waiting for it to be ready?

Let's share what is fermenting, some good tasting #beer you made, something that didn't end up how you liked, happy little accidents that ended up well... Just everything homebrewing, #wine making, #cider , #mead ...

After last month post when I tried to post it through Mastodon, I would like to remind everyone here to leave the @homebrewing in the replie so everyone can see it on Lemmy.

#beer

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I have few thoughts about bikepacking on recumbent bike. (f.cz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by plactagonic@f.cz to c/bicycle_touring@lemmy.world
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I have few thoughts about bikepacking on recumbent bike.

Because of the weight distribution I don't see any difference in the ridability and handling. The issue with flexing bike when loaded with bags isn't noticeable when riding only when you need to push it.

But the hills are killing me it isn't ideal without the bags but with them it is brutal.

#bikepacking #biketouring #bikeTooter #regel17 @bicycle_touring

What are you brewing? in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 2 months ago

During this week I got to know this quite odd brewery at my university - the picture above. It has lot of weird quirks because it is just ~150l setup with same technology as 1000l+ setup. It sometimes doesn't make much sense but you can brew pretty much anything in it.

Yeah I will probably be down there quite a lot during my studies ;-)

@homebrewing

What are you brewing? in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 2 months ago

@ascentale @homebrewing my cider usually don't have time to age - I drink it too quickly. Maybe it will get better with age I am usually quite surprised when I find some forgotten 1+ year bottle.

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What are you brewing? (f.cz)
 

What are you brewing?

Easter is in few weeks maybe you have some special beer prepared or just your normal #homebrewing experiments. Let's share what is fermenting, some good tasting #beer you made, something that didn't end up how you liked, happy little accidents that ended up well... Just everything homebrewing, #wine making, #cider , #mead ...

I used to make these posts once per month but didn't make them for about a year, let me know if I should start again with them.

@homebrewing

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So this year Christmas celebration was pleasantly interrupted by #bikepacker from Japan. (f.cz)
 

So this year Christmas celebration was pleasantly interrupted by #bikepacker from Japan.

I was half watching new fairy tale from our national TV (which wasn't that good they didn't managed to make good one in some time) and got warmshowers notification.

I didn't told him much but when he just got in the middle of our family gathering he was bit surprised. I think it is the highlight of this year's Christmas for me and my family too.

#bikepacking #biketouring #biketooter @bicycle_touring

After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free). in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 7 months ago (8 children)

@finitebanjo there is bunch of misconception about methanol. If I remember correctly it is created by partial fermentation of cellulose, so pits and seeds left in fermenter in making of fruit distillates. But the yeast just likes sugars more so it is just really small quantity and you just discard the "head" part (that is distilled first) and take only the part with mostly ethanol.

Lighter alcohol is basically made from sugar water, no cellulose is there so no methanol is created.

Also methanol poisoning is bit weird - methanol is harmless in the body but metabolites are dangerous. Basically ethanol is broken down to acetaldehyde that is useful for other metabolic processes, but methanol is broken down to formaldehyde that is dangerous and for some reason likes to damage optical nerves.

Fortunately enzyme that breaks down ethanol don't like methanol that much, so when you drink some small amount of methanol mixed with ethanol you pee out the methanol and process the ethanol. Antidote for methanol is literally keeping you drunk until you pee out all the methanol.

I hope this info will at least clear out some of the misconceptions that you got.

After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free). in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 7 months ago (10 children)

@finitebanjo methanol is dangerous only in high concentration, so distillates. This will be just OK. Beer, wine, mead, cider... just doesn't have the problem there.

Also with distillation it is bad technology or somebody is just an idiot who doesn't know what fractional distillation is.

After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free). in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 7 months ago (12 children)

@finitebanjo yes it is stainless steel.

But it's not fermenter so only starch and sugars (and bunch of other compounds like enzymes but it's not that important for your worries) are present at this stage.

As for methanol it is made by fermentation of more complex compounds that just aren't in beer. Even in commercial brewing context stainless is heavily used for nearly everything, at 5% ABV it just isn't issue.

After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free). in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 7 months ago

@GuloGulo @homebrewing
to snad NEE!

Pivní pálenka je fakt nic moc. Myslím že jsme to udělali jen jednou když se něco fakt hodně nepovedlo a pak jsme to používali na mytí oken.

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After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free). (f.cz)
 

After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free).

It is really experimental brew. I put 3,5l of grape juice (I think it is Veltlín variety) and will add some cherries there too. So let's see how it will end up.

#homebrewing @homebrewing

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[meta] I applied to make new #Fedigroups group for #homebrewing because some of you used #gupe group. (f.cz)
 

[meta] I applied to make new #Fedigroups group for #homebrewing because some of you used #gupe group.

But I think that there is maybe better option with the same functionality - Lemmy.

Just have in mind that it isn't that well interconnected as other fedi servers, it breaks pictures if there are multiple of them and tries to cram everything in the title.

Other small problem is comments federating, sometimes it takes few hours or some of them didn't show up at all (mostly one way mastodon looks ok Lemmy missing comments).

So if you mention @homebrewing in your post anywhere it will also show on Lemmy.

My last post (https://f.cz/users/plactagonic/statuses/115174820652357991) is visible there if you want to check it (also the pictures below)

I will let it federate and pin it if someone from Lemmy has some objections to this. Also if something will look horrible/really off topic I can delete it only from Lemmy and Mastodon visibility is unaffected.

#beer #cider #wine #mead

I am thinking about brewing some Belgian #beer for Christmas and have frozen cherries and cherries in rum. in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@MuteDog sweet ones, that's just what I have. I was asking more about the usage - where to put it in the process in fermenter, to the boil (as I found someone do it with concentrate)

I am thinking about brewing some Belgian #beer for Christmas and have frozen cherries and cherries in rum. in c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
[–] plactagonic@f.cz 0 points 8 months ago

@AndiPopp @homebrewing I know, few months ago I was in Belgium and visited brewery that makes lambics.

Tbh I really don't like this style I was thinking about some dubbel or some different strong style.

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I am thinking about brewing some Belgian #beer for Christmas and have frozen cherries and cherries in rum. (f.cz)
 

I am thinking about brewing some Belgian #beer for Christmas and have frozen cherries and cherries in rum.

Do anyone here from the #homebrewing fedi bubble have any good recipe or suggestions how to use it?

@homebrewing

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The last 2 days in #Spain were mixed, I rode from El Rocío which has this wild west feel to it but I foolishly decided to rode through it on bike. It was bad idea all roads are this fine sand and lots (f.cz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@f.cz to c/bicycle_touring@lemmy.world
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The last 2 days in #Spain were mixed, I rode from El Rocío which has this wild west feel to it but I foolishly decided to rode through it on bike. It was bad idea all roads are this fine sand and lots of potholes, probably good for the horses but nearly unrideable on my bike.

From there I got on the coastal route, that was nice separated or with little to no car traffic. That quickly changed before Huelva where the EV route goes through oil refinery and then suddenly change to highway with pretty nasty intersection.

After Huelva the few km I had to camp was really nice on bike line along the highway.

#bikepacking #biketouring #BikeTooter #europebybike @bicycle_touring

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Tak jsem si trochu hrál s federací různých služeb v #feddiverse , konkrétně s #lemmy (takový reddit). Takže jste si asi všimli že občas boostuju divně vypadající příspěvky. (f.cz)
 

Tak jsem si trochu hrál s federací různých služeb v #feddiverse , konkrétně s #lemmy (takový reddit). Takže jste si asi všimli že občas boostuju divně vypadající příspěvky.

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