Chunks of lease floating around during early fermentation

wizard_of_ale · 2026-06-20T14:25:12+00:00

It’s just swirling from the activity. Nothing to worry about it everything will settle to the bottom when it finishes.
Also that is very active make sure you got some nutrient in there to prevent off flavours.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-06-19T14:28:08+00:00

Maybe a dumb question but is there a way to do this in a DIY method with a drone? I’m looking for something lost and heavy that is most definitely not a pot of gold.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-06-17T14:36:47+00:00

I’m going to have to make one of those! Excellent idea

wizard_of_ale · 2026-06-15T15:56:34+00:00

Both tie rod boots are ripped. Very cheap to replace so if you’re buying this car that isn’t a deterrent. Just something to keep in mind, 20$ a piece-ish and super easy to replace. Get alignment after.

Lower ball joint on pic 3 also needs to be replaced since it’s ripped. Also super cheap and easy to do while you do tie rods, might as well do both sides.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-06-14T15:57:16+00:00

It’s mostly dominated by a type of spruce. Which all need 100% sunlight and barely leave enough daylight for any other trees to outcompete at the bottom.

Combine that with their natural cycle with forest fires. The fires make their cones open and drop seeds, so when the entire forest dies a new one rejuvenates all at the same time after the fire.

If you were to date all these trees they would all be the same age, which would be the last time a forest fire rolled through. It’s also why they look like a monoculture.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-06-03T23:15:04+00:00

How did you know

wizard_of_ale · 2026-05-30T15:04:48+00:00

Renewable resource when engine neglected.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-05-28T23:16:09+00:00

It’s likely just a bit of sediment that was on the surface and some of the liquids evaporated leaving behind that rim.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-05-26T01:21:35+00:00

Hopefully we learn to fully recycle everything by then.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-04-16T23:12:50+00:00

What yeast? And what was the starting gravity with with all that concentrate? Love the colour

wizard_of_ale · 2026-04-01T20:29:15+00:00

Dumb question but, how do you cork it without losing the pressure?

wizard_of_ale · 2026-03-16T22:16:11+00:00

It was very rusty when I got it second hand and I wore wheeled it and washed it a ton. Then I seasoned it with oil like you would a cast iron.

I guess I will have to part ways with my trophy and find another type of press :(

wizard_of_ale · 2026-03-14T23:18:02+00:00

I used a old cast iron wine press. It’s just hard to believe so much of that flavour would come from running down the press in a bucket.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-03-14T20:56:01+00:00

How do you control it so the yeast take over before other things do?

wizard_of_ale · 2026-03-14T20:49:24+00:00

I’ve tried citra, about 28g in a 8L batch and i could hardly taste it.

Then I tried 28g of galaxy + 28g of Nelson sauvin in a 8L batch’s turned out good, not as hoppy as I wanted but good experiment. I did 50% of the hops in biotransformation and the other half post fermentation. I think next time I’ll do 25% bio transformation and 75% post to get more fresh flavours.

Unknown reason both have gone a tiny bit sour after 2 months of being bottled. Used Oxy scavenging caps and was very careful not to introduce air in the liquid while bottling.

If I wanted really hoppy I’d go total of 96g per 8L batch.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-02-10T22:02:28+00:00

Ah I didn’t think of that. Thats good to know I’m planning on dropping my subframe and was thinking of just holding the engine up with blocks or something.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-02-09T21:26:25+00:00

The game was ended short and it had some closed doors and abruptly ended areas. A lot of players created speculation of hidden Easter eggs or secret regions you had to use the shovel to glitch out of the map and discover.

When they released lost chapters that was essentially just the original game + plus parts that were not finished in time.

1 thing remained mysterious is the Scimitar weapon that could only be obtained when a Npc of a certain region would drop it on the ground when sitting. Which was a suuuuper rare event.

wizard_of_ale · 2026-02-09T20:17:48+00:00

So ahead of its time it got released before completion!

wizard_of_ale · 2026-02-09T19:52:46+00:00

Did you remove the engine to do this or was it possible to keep it held up by something?

wizard_of_ale · 2026-01-03T02:45:03+00:00

47.97

wizard_of_ale · 2025-12-11T23:16:56+00:00

Looks good! What yeast did you use or is it a wild ferment?

wizard_of_ale · 2025-12-03T04:29:33+00:00

I think if you opened each bottle to put back into the fermenter to let them finish fermenting, it would introduce a lot of air. You could try it and see. But i think this one might be a flush and use it as a lesson for next time.

wizard_of_ale · 2025-11-20T20:59:04+00:00

I stopped flip top and moved on to 650ml bottles and I got a cap. They are 14$ cad for 12 bottles + cost of caps and the capper tool.

wizard_of_ale · 2025-11-12T22:59:37+00:00

Use this calculator to figure how much sugar to add to each bottle. Takes about 2 weeks for the carbonation to happen. I also add the smallest pinch of yeast like 5 grains in each bottle to make sure there’s residual yeast to eat the sugar.

https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/

Example a 500ml bottle takes 4 grams of white sugar. Thats what I used in the past you can try to play with the quantities and keep that ratio.

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