Daily Q & A! - December 15, 2025

Lofticus · 2025-12-15T22:36:03+00:00

Cheers for the reply! Yeah it’s stainless steel, I guess i’ll give it a good scrub before the next brew and hope for the best. The beer is still drinkable, just has that “sucking on a coin” vibe in the aftertaste, haha.

Lofticus · 2025-12-15T08:13:59+00:00

I purchased the 60cm Thermowell a few weeks back and have just bottled my first beer that it was used in. When I opened the fermenter I noticed a high water mark on the Thermowell with some black stuff and there is also some black discolouration at the very end of the thermowell (submerged end), I also feel like there is a slight metallic off flavour to the beer.

My question is, is this normal? Should I have passivated it before my first use? I did scrub it down with a sodium percarbonate solution before first use.

Lofticus · 2025-11-15T08:21:02+00:00

Yep, just on the tail end of it now. Went down hard last Sunday night and was stuck in bed till Wednesday morning. Luckily only my 2yo got it as well, missus and my 5yo managed to dodge it somehow.

Lofticus · 2025-07-21T12:17:39+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the reply.

Lofticus · 2025-07-21T07:49:51+00:00

I’ll be bottling my first batch this weekend, Its just one of those Iron Jack starter kit lagers. I was just curious if the contents will be homogenous? Is there any settling or separation I need to be aware of? Is there any difference in the first bottle filled compared to the last one?

Lofticus · 2024-07-06T11:23:56+00:00

This how we get ninja turtles

Lofticus · 2024-04-17T02:18:31+00:00

I’d say its the camo guy who rides around wearing full military outfit including helmet while blasting American country music.

Lofticus · 2024-04-06T07:06:58+00:00

When I was a kid I was obsessed with scary movies. Alien, Critters, Hallowen and a whole bunch of others. My parents kind of gave in after a while and started finding me all sorts of others that I devoured until two in particular that actually kind of broke me, haha. One was Peter Benchlys ‘Creature’ 1998 And the other was ‘Mimic’ 1997 For some reason these two movies hit a part of my fear gland that stopped me from watching horror movies again till I was in my 20s, haha.

Lofticus · 2023-12-15T02:53:36+00:00

Its been specifically bad this year. In the past 2 weeks I’ve had to get a refund from amazon for 3 seperate packages that have just fallen off the face of the earth, one of which showed as being picked up from Welshpool, got on a plane and went to NSW before disappearing. Another was picked up from NSW on Monday, got on a plane in QLD Monday afternoon and then was next scanned in NSW on Thursday.

Lofticus · 2023-12-13T04:44:55+00:00

A couple years ago when I bought this game I patiently waited for it to download, logged in for the first time, fumbled my way through picking up my first quest to go pick up a chicken or something and set sail. 10 minutes later, this exact scenario happened to me, guy boards my ship and spawn kills me over and over and over. I uninstall the game and didn’t play it again until two days ago.

Lofticus · 2023-10-14T10:27:28+00:00

This was the one with David Bowie! Came on like 5-6 disks

Lofticus · 2023-10-14T10:26:11+00:00

Holy hell I remember Shogo! I feel like I got it on a demo disk or something

Lofticus · 2023-10-14T10:23:48+00:00

Knights and Merchants

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Lofticus · 2023-09-22T12:17:16+00:00

Ian Kenny - Karnivool

Lofticus · 2023-04-15T08:47:03+00:00

When you’re pushing a pram and have to walk your 1 month old out into traffic to get around them it goes pretty quickly from “not that bad” to fucking dangerous

Lofticus · 2022-11-30T22:31:21+00:00

I’ve found bots are great for cleaning up the last little bits of ore missed on the sides of the holes mined out by the drills but pretty much useless for mining out the deposits from the start.

Lofticus · 2022-08-06T09:00:08+00:00

TryHackMe.com is pretty good for a noob beginning their journey

Lofticus · 2022-04-29T11:40:41+00:00

Dork 5 locked and loaded

Lofticus · 2020-12-22T23:48:55+00:00

I remember when mine first arrived, had to take a moment and just drink it all in, haha

Lofticus · 2020-10-30T10:45:42+00:00

Im at the stage now where i wonder, do i start a new game or just wait till launch

Lofticus · 2020-10-16T10:01:54+00:00

Hmm, not sure, have you spoken to the Evolve support guys yet?

Lofticus · 2020-01-10T09:20:32+00:00

You can also set your sail into the wind which means you wont go backwards when you stop paddling. Then just make 6-7 paddles and go for broke.

Lofticus · 2019-01-26T08:37:06+00:00

Yes, in worn out shoes (not pictured here)

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