After my bikepacking trip I will pitch the interrail to my parents. They are so excited about the places I visited but don’t know how or if they will be able to get there. They (me too) don’t like flying and by car it is just too stressful.
Really nice experience - 9 completely different beers, it was more local so I was bit of curiosity but I had really good chat with few people there.
Yes some stout with bourbon, beer brewed with spruce, tripels and more. Every beer just tasted completely different.
Yesterday I crossed the border, tooted on mastodon and someone told me about local craft beer fest…
I think that the first day in Belgium was really great.
This is bit misconception, pigs are really similar to us and we can get BSE or how is it called in humans (it has several names according to the animal that gets the disease).
The problem why the BSE got out of hand was because they used these parts as feed for another animals.
To be honest I understand the children here. The saving part of me just understand that it is better to use everything.
It’s pretty much the same with pigs, only part that isn’t used is brain.
Yeah, I changed my plans again few weeks ago.
I met someone that I promised to show her the beer culture in CZ, so I am taking train from Brussels to Czech to meet her there in few weeks. I will skip the German/Netherlands part.
But the craft beer scene is, according to people I talked to, biggest around Barcelona. Sometimes you just randomly find some place like NASA brewery in Pontevedra (I liked it, really nice place).
I live in CZ and beer is mostly water so it doesn’t make much sense to ship it that far and we have lot of small brewerys. They usually experiment somehow but not much of them got to Belgian styles.
I had few Belgian beers, one pub have sometimes few bottles, but not that much. That’s why I am going to Belgium…
For me obviously nothing much in the brewing sense but I will be in the next few days in Belgium so at least some good beer after these few months.
Didn’t like that much Spanish beer, but the craft beer scene here starts to pick up and they have some nice refreshing IPAs and other ale styles (the commercial beer was nearly undrinkable). Similar in Portugal, but the craft scene isn’t that big.
I didn’t had single beer that I would consider talking that much about in France, the blonde just isn’t for me.
Now that there is a thread about your bomb, I just want to add that for most things you don’t exactly need fermentation cap (the bubbler). Some cloth over the top is enough.
If it doesn’t stink I would just taste it as it is.
I was re-watching few of the Thought Emporium videos and got the urge to do it. He made GMO yeast for making bread (“golden bread”). And as one genecist told in interview I listened to long time ago - Most of the GMO techniques are so simple that you can do them in kitchen.
So picking strain of yeast that doesn’t drop out easily from the beer, commercially available DNA marker and mush them together.
It will still be some time before I brew. But I start to think about GMO yeast that can produce some fluorescent color. It would be cool to have some hazy beer under blue light…
Certainly not legal in EU but I think that it can be done pretty easily.
No, most people are pragmatic in this case and eastern countries changed from Russian ~30 years ago so another change isn’t coming any time soon.
As my parents saw the change from “it is really appreciated that you can speak English” to “it is expected that you can use it”. I can tell that it is so engrained in our multinational exchange that it won’t be even desirable.
When I think about it it may had exactly opposite effect, so much parties stayed under the 5% threshold that 1 000 000 votes didn’t mattered.
Yes you read it right 1/10 of our country’s votes fell through without making any difference. (The ratio is probably worse because not everyone is eligible to vote).
Look at last parliamentary election in CZ.
By increasing attendance by few percent we got rid of communist party which was in parliament from 1945…
Both of them? They made game for each election.
If you are interested in foreign politics:
You had to get our former president and ruzzian asset to vote.
Just to add I don’t brew mead I want to try it sometime but didn’t hot to it yet.
I like bottles that don’t need special tools to close. So swingtop or even pet (if it is something I will drink soon).
It is in my opinion too big to join now as a new user, I think there are some issues with moderation also.
Fediverse needs to scale horizontally so it is bad idea to join the largest server.
Btw this can be found by just using iodine solution to test it. I think that it can be found at pharmacy. Your wort is quite dark but it is doable to test it.
Put few drops of wort on plate, on side the iodine and look for colour change on the border where it mixes.