This is sooo weird to me. I know lot of people (brewmasters, owners...) and it is usually about cooperation.
Like on local food festival we coordinate with other brewery what beer to bring, who will take portable taps so we all can be sold out at the end and don't need to bring everything.
Dobrovský a Šídlo, epizoda vyšla před 14 ti dny. Války neprohrávají vojáci ale zbabělý politici.
On one Czech podcast the host summed it up nicely: EU and Czech Republic politicians should pull their heads out of ass and realize that Russia is in full blown hybrid war with us. Disinformation campaigns, cyber attacks and sabotage of ammunition depots.
I love that half is in metric and other half has pounds, foots and quarts.
My metric wired brain just don't understand it.
When I see this meme I always remember the glass rod I stuck in my thumb when we learned to do some basic lab glassmaking.
I have belt drive ready frame. But I have GRX on it.
I may put belt on it sometime in future, what puts me off for now is grip-shift and no options for drop bar shifting.
For me it was network card and underpowered POS laptop. For light office work and web it is enough computing power with Linux but with Windows it was unusable.
Tldr of this measurement is that density is affected only negligibly (with low concentration of alcohol). Refractive index changes a lot.
These numbers were "discovered" by trying, maybe from some 15 yo Czech seminar my dad attended when he started. I just know that it works.
For sugar I am adding the least amount possible- it has some already ~3.5 °Bx and I don't want bombs.
I use hydrometer it gives you real gravity but you need more beer.
But when you calculate real gravity from refractometer you can use it.
The window for this method is from 4-4.5°Bx and I only used hydrometer so it may need little bit of trying to not get bombs.
Now I work in brewery and we use basically the same method, but because the tank caps work as regulated pressure relief valves, they are cooled... It is just more regulated and done before packaging (bottling and kegging).
I brewed in about the same style but mainly with S-185. If you measure gravity during fermentation you can put it in bottles with ~4,5°Bx and skipp adding sugar.
It is enough to pressurize it and fermentation isn't completely stopped (it is just slowing down). After week in 10 - 12°C it should be pressurized.
When I miss this window I add only about 3.5 g of sugar per bottle and 30g per 30l keg.
Lager styles usually take longer in secondary leave it at least week to pressurize.
Which yeasts did you use?
Mosquito nets and DEET. You have few options- physical barrier and chemical deterent.
As someone in alcohol industry. I see a shift in my country from drinking loads of cheap beer to finding craft brewerys and better alcohol in general.
Going to pub for 10 beers and few shots of cheapest vodka/rum is no longer a thing.
Still we top some of these charts. (CZ)
The sigma has lots of weird quirks that the phone solves. Like you need their app to put routes in it, you need wifi to generate it, sometimes it makes weird spaghetti route...
I just don't want my phone connected to it on multi-day biketour.
I just cross-post it to bikepacking community.
I just looked at few of these bikes and they look good. I would like to see them in person.
I use it with ROX 4.0, I have full maps in phone and when I see that the pre-planned route is bad I check it on the phone.
With this use it can do 2 - 3 days of riding. But with navigation battery is dead in 3-4 hours.
Still this setup is about 4x cheaper than basic Garmin.
In my last job I worked with electroplating power supplys. When the 40 series come out I joked with my boss that it is matter of time when we will need something like this in our PCs.
I use my Galaxy S6 as dedicated GPS/maps head unit for my bike (Garmin is too expensive).
To get newer maps I had to reflash the rom to some hacked together Lineageos. With Odin/heimdal tool it was basically foolproof.
You can get to bootloader so it will be easy. Worse is bricked phone without access to it.
Does anyone want any toast?
Which are you using?
For most things (day trips, few km after work...) I use multiple of them.
Mapy.cz
- online and offline mobile app
- trip planner works pretty well
- you can check out places (photos, reviews...) when online
- well maped whole Europe
- not enough information about roads (asphalt, paved, gravel...)
- basically interactive version of KČT maps
Cykloserver.cz
- can't find app
- basic planner, but better for drawing your route
- much more helpful info about roads
- it is just automatically scaled paper map, so you have to know how to read it
Osm clients - I tried multiple of them.
Paper maps - from the same company that makes the Cycloserver maps. You can get set of them for about 100€ (CZ not sure about SK). There is just something special about planning trip on paper maps.
Which are you using? For most things (day trips, few km after work…) I use multiple of them. Mapy.cz [http://Mapy.cz] - online and offline mobile app - trip planner works pretty well - you can check out places (photos, reviews…) when online - well maped whole Europe - not enough information about ro...
Crosspost. I got good recommendations on another community and I am interested in your picks.
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Which are you using?
For most things (day trips, few km after work...) I use multiple of them.
Mapy.cz
- online and offline mobile app
- trip planner works pretty well
- you can check out places (photos, reviews...) when online
- well maped whole Europe
- not enough information about roads (asphalt, paved, gravel...)
- basically interactive version of KČT maps
Cykloserver.cz
- can't find app
- basic planner, but better for drawing your route
- much more helpful info about roads
- it is just automatically scaled paper map, so you have to know how to read it
Osm clients - I tried multiple of them.
Paper maps - from the same company that makes the Cycloserver maps. You can get set of them for about 100€ (CZ not sure about SK). There is just something special about planning trip on paper maps.
So I comute by bike and this week I ride through fast changing snow condition. It got from completly covered cycle route, to badly cleaned roads, to mushy brown sludge, and today there were loads of frozen bits of snow and ice patches.
I managed to fell only twice - inertia is your best friend and worse enemy at the same time. And I hope that these conditions will be over soon. Most annoying part is that I dont know what to expect and how to prepare because conditions vary from day to day.
What is on your wishlist this year? I have loads of camping stuff but started biketouring recently so big thing for me are bags and few stuff to complete my bike (bottlecages).
I am looking for some other things to complete my list (so other family members can give me something).
So my friend has some vineyards and this is the part of the year.
We picked about 600 l of white grapes, 100l of red and about 50l of some sweeter white variety. He will have another group to pick the rest of it (about the same amount).
If you think that this is too much for homebrewing, it isn't. There is legal to make up to 2000l of it per year and lots of people make it to that limit.
If someone have good pick sharing site I can link few images I managed to take.
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
So this morning at 5 am when I was leaving to work I had this conversation with my dad:
D:"So when will you drink the KEG? I need it empty."
Me:"But it is your beer"
D: " ... "
Me: " Nevermind, bye "
So week ago I and my friends brew beer, had BBQ and ecologicaly liquidated my beer/cider stockpile.
Let's just say that all of us has some murky memory of it.
I just know that everything got according to plan and the beer is good.
So do you drink when you are brewing?
So I played with natural yeasts and cultivation. Had few strains isolated and kept in fridge. But recently one extremely resistant strain contaminated all of it.
Had some good brews, some bad, some meh. So what is yours experience, did you tryed it or want to?