I sometimes use sweet potato for beer in a similar way as I do pumpkin. Just clean it up, shove it in the oven until it caramelizes a bit, mash it with a fork or whatever is at hand and add it to the mash - I usually use 1-2 kg (~2-4 lbs) for a 20L (5 gal?) batch. And from then on it’s brewing as usual. Gives a nice colour to the beer though I can’t say I’ve noticed any flavour.
Read about being able to mash them on their own, but I’ve yet to try that, not sure how I would go about it.
add to that that google turned to crap nowadays and just pushes meaningless bot generated content in the top pages… it’s getting almost impossible to use it to find stuff. not sure about other engines because I only started recently being search-engine-curious, so no idea how they were like before
It truly is the best hobby in the world. Nice set-up you got there! I dream one day to have a shed that I can just customize myself with piping and drains.
It may very well work out, kveik might like being underpitched (though 1 gram for a batch of mead might be too little even for it). You mqy just have some funky mixing of yeasts going on. If it works out well enough, do keep some yeast from this batch, you might be well on your way to having a house yeast.
Or it could also go very bad. Never know until you try.
For a while when I started brewing I used iodophor diluted as I had found recommended online as a sanitizer, worked pretty well to prevent infection. I just used the medical grade stuff (either iodine-povidone or tincture of iodine) diluted to about 12.5 ppm. At this level it should be no rinse.
I’d say try google for more information but it’s full of crap bot-generated articles now, so that’s gone. I mean, I found an article suggesting you use vinegar, baking soda and salt to make a sanitizer. Don’t, by the way.
I switched to starsan because it was more convenient and doesn’t smell like a hospital when using it. Starsan is basically phosphoric acid (same thing they add in coca-cola for example) with some surfactant mixed in.
If you don’t use any sanitizer your main issue will be beer tasting off due to contamination from wild yeasts, or bacteria. This becomes more of an issue when bottling, because wild critters can usually ferment more things in your beer than single-strain lab grown yeasts (except diastaticus, that thing is a beast), and over time they can eat through residual sugars in your beer and generate more alcohol and CO2 - so potential bottle bombs, worst case.
However, if you do want to go the rustic route, there are some books out there describing historical farmhouse brewing techniques, some still used today (and they didn’t have starsan).
Damn. That has always been a fear of mine and sometimes I wonder whether I should be wearing a full suit of armor when transporting bottles from carbonation fermentation to the fridge for consumption. Never happened yet, but never know. Recently got into kegging to reduce this risk.
Can you imagine how much slower the game would have been with bicycles, individual paths and subtle light coming from the camera at night? These were probably performance decisions, not gameplay (though it’s possible it was rushed and they cut out non essentials for release).
It can also lead to priapism if you somehow (through great pain, I’d imagine) manage to retract it and the tight part becomes stuck during an erection. If not treated in time the lack of circulation leads to necrosis.
It’s easier to tell people to just use a rubber when on antibiotics rathern than explain to them that it’s only for some unpronounceable substances for most of the population and have them memorize a list of substances for which it’s safe to go on as usual - azithromycin is safe, amoxicillin is not. They may sound fairly similar to a layman.
It’s because some substances (in this case, antibiotics) mess with the units in your body that process them and prepare them for excretion. They may inhibit or induce them, but these units process a whole load of other stuff. Including birth control, which can lead to less activity from the birth control pills because they’re inactivated quicker (in case of induction) or the biotransformation to the active form is slower (in case of inhibition, for prodrugs that are inactive as is, but have active metabolites, no idea if this is the case for birth control though).
A similar thing happens with alcohol, for example, which is why you should always be honest with exactly how much alcohol you drink or what other drugs you take when talking to an anaesthesiologist, or any doctor prescribing you any sort of medicine, lest you risk ineffective anaesthesia or treatment (the first one is worse imo).
Would be nice if they expanded it to all digital goods - to include music, for instance, and things like youtube videos (technically not films or series, as I’m sure somebody at google will point out).
It does appear to be more of a philosophical issue than a physical one. The beauty of it, as I see it, is that it doesn’t really matter if true or not. Even if true, pain and pleasure will still continue to be ‘real’, so will hunger or addiction, at least as real as we can tell. It won’t lead to any sort of mass detachment from existence or to any ‘there is no spoon’ moment.
I was going to say that finding out it’s a simulation would lead us to try and hack it. But then it dawned upon me that it’s what we’re already doing.
For Turkish and Hungarian, there used to be a proposed link between finno-ungric languages and turkic languages, but it seems that modern linguistics rejects that and they states that any similarities are due to contact alone.
I am also curious. On the one hand, if you tax any gains from it you should also make sure it operates within some legal framework. On the other hand, would anybody investigate a magic bean salesman for insider trading? Would they rather charge them with scamming?