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[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

That's what I use with a 25 liter pot to boil about 22 liters of wort.

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 80 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's why assessment is done by professionals who can interpret your answers, not online quizzes

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

only now? With how many russian assets european countries seized around 2022/2023, I assumed Russia would've done the same years ago. Was the USA more friendly with Russia than the EU was? Wouldn't even be surprised if that were the case, seeing as how the EU likes to just shoot itself in the foot in order to lick USA's boot while the latter just keeps doing business with its literal enemies in war

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I tried and eventually succeeded, though it took ages to figure out where the configuration was wrong. It was something relatively stupid too, iirc. But I still don't actively use it because I don't have enough faith in its reliability to use for something as important as email, lol

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

You can buy dedicated trash bags. They're thinner, so the amount of plastic material per bag is a fraction of that in shopping bags.

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

None for the time being, and I don't know what I should use if I were to need one. I already use Proton for email so it wouldn't be my first choice to give even more data to one company, even if they still seem good (though their marketing is relatively aggressive, which feels offputting).

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

I literally only installed Base in order to be able to print labels on a sheet of stickers. Maybe there's an easier way to accomplish that but using LibreOffice the simplest working setup I could figure out was using Calc for the data and Writer for setting up the sheet and then for some reason you need Base in order to use the Calc data in Writer.

I've done it about once thus far so it's not a routine process yet, though I did write some notes for myself because otherwise there's no way I would remember all the necessary steps next time I go to do it. I've been thinking of using this setup to replace Microsoft Works for an org that still uses that for this same purpose.

 

Hi, I am still pretty new to brewing and have been brewing beer with a BIAB setup and a regular 25 liter steel pot. During mashing, I have a problem with the wort soaking up into the mash bag, over the edge of the pot, collecting at the edges of the bag where it will then drip down.

Because I'm brewing on my kitchen table (using a portable induction stove), it gets my tablecloth wet and smelling of malt sugars. It was even more pronounced than usual in tonight's (my 4th) brew, getting my tablecloth so wet that I had to pull it out to prevent it soaking through to the table. And of course possibly the worst part is that the stove gets all sticky, meaning I have to wipe it with a damp towel before boiling to prevent burning, requiring moving the pot full of wort around.

I can't think of a good reason as to why this would be so much worse now than before, unless the grain bill could significantly influence this effect, or maybe I just placed the bag in the pot somehow differently this time around. Has anyone else run into this problem before, and if so, how have you solved or mitigated it?

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

LOL! Thankfully I actually grew to kinda like it what with drinking most of my product myself. (Also the final yield is more like 16–17 liters).

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Update: It's done now (bottled a week ago). I haven't gotten external opinions on it yet but I think it turned out a good beer, but you probably wouldn't be able to pinpoint tea as an ingredient if you didn't know. It probably does give a bit of extra depth of flavour, but it's not distinctly tea-like. I'm saving the last bottle of my 1st batch to do a side-by-side comparison with this, ideally with someone else who would be big into beer.

Next time I do a tea beer I'll probably use 10 g/l and let it steep for longer, maybe till the end of cooling. Maybe to be on the safe side I should tone down the bittering hops to compensate. I wish I knew how to account for the tea's bitterness in the IBU calculation.

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

pay back

1. (transitive) To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
2. (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

Here I am using the 2nd meaning.

[–] fdagpigj@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

It was signed in 2024.

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