*attempts to fathom terrors* *suddenly gets urge to put on a maid outfit and dust the place* You're not wrong...
I have a sony as well, and you can use it as dumb TV, by not agreeing to their privacy policy. If you want to connect it to wifi afterwards, it points you to the privacy policy again, so it seems like the TV follows that. But I've also purchased it 4 years ago, so not sure what the status is now.
So far, I've seen no ads. I mostly use it mostly via HDMI and sometimes for watching freely available TV via antenna.
In retrospect, I should have saved it, but it was my second beer ever and went for an overly complex recipe also. Knowing what I know now, it would have probably aged nicely.
I've discovered boiling is not fully necessary to get a good brew and that heather tips make it awesome. I've just added maybe 1-2 handfuls now to the mash. Next autumn I plan to go nuts on collecting the thing and will try to fit maybe half a kilo in there, see how it comes out.
Honorable mention to red yeast rice, I have this notion of doing a rice mash for maybe a week with it and then plopping that into a raw ale mash to get enzymes and flavour of red yeast rice wine in a beer, as I've noticed that its enzymes also work up to 70ish Celsius.
Did a raw ale with heather tips foraged from the forest that turned out pretty good.
And now fermenting a raw pumpkin ale. Added around 3 kg pumpkin mash to the mash. A bit difficult to work with and had an OG of around 1.055, bit on the low end there. Fingers crossed it'll be drinkable. Assuming it's going to come in at session strength.
Loving the goblin fermentation vibes you re giving off there. Never stop.
Mostly beer brewer here, so dumb things I've done were mostly process related. Fermenting beer with unsanitized wood chips - turned sour. Adding too much rye or pumpkin - took me 12 hours to get the damn thing made - stuck mash.
Fermentation wise, not brewing, messed around with some koji with varying degrees of success.
If you're doing things like spam alcohol, have you also considered miso as an ingredient?
that link returns a 404 error for me
taking this opportunity to not double post and comment on your post as well
don't remember where I heard this from, was a long time ago (perhaps during some sort of botany class or another) but hop compounds should exhibit some surface tension action (like what soap does to water), so that might be the explanation for the foam
christmas-y cider sounds awesome.
edit - ninja'd on 404 comment - ignore that part
Oh brother, where art thou?
Man of constant sorrow. Nuff said
Gout. Big toe on fire, throbbing with pain, joint swollen until there are no discernable features. Even a feather touching the area is enough to generate hot searing pain. The constant urge to 'pop' the big toe joint set against the impossibility to actually wriggle the toe without passing out.
Should drink lots of water to flush out the uric acid, but every trip to the bathroom has to be carefully considered because walking there takes 2-3 minutes of grabbing on to nearby things/people while stepping awkwardly on the outside edge of the foot, instead of 20 seconds of normal walking.
I've had severe tooth pain for a couple of weeks (a cyst - the pain killed the nerves in some of my teeth), and 3 days of gout until the meds worked well enough to walk less painfully were worse.
No Man's Sky. Pretty sweet deal, I think.
I'd just start mining random stuff to put together to make better mining gear to mine better and more stuff.
Then just get on my dinghy and explore the 'verse while looking out for a better dinghy. Maybe plop down a few bases on nice planets, rinse and repeat.
In addition to everything else suggested here already, I would say maybe cloves or tonka beans, if they suit your palate. Careful though, they might be overpowering. Maybe a vanilla pod or two, depending on the quantity.
Planning on trying my very first raw ale. So far, was thinking of doing a 3ish hour mash, finishing for about 30 minutes at 80 C, and adding something like 60g Simcoe (14.4%) to the mash. For laziness reasons I'd like to avoid doing a hop tea. Has anyone tried this before?
Sweet. Are you planning on using any spices or just the apple juice?
legend goes that Greta made the guy mad on xitter and he posted a response that also included a picture of himself with a pizza box, and cops knew where to find him because of the brand on the box, but not sure if it was proven true or not
I'd say we could probably remove the sticky from the intro posts around this time, to clear up the landing when coming here from 'subscribed'.
I would also be pro a periodic general discussion like what have you brewed / tasted / whatever related to homebrewing.
slightly off-topic - sorry to hear the job's bumming your lust for brewing. have you considered doing funky stuff like raw ales or using weird ingredients at home?
I mean, you already have 12 phalanges on one hand (3 each, from 4 fingers) and you can use your thumb as an indicator.
Why are you heating your strike water to 71C? is it enough when adding room temp grain to cool down to your target mash (I wonder if you're not accidentally destroying some enzymes)? What about the age of the grain? Enzymatic activity drops the longer grain is stored. Maybe you got a very old batch?
Using and AIO system, it should have the ability to control temp during the mash. I use one myself and a general all rounder mash program would be this: add the grain at around 45-54 C, then let it ramp up to 63. Hold for about an hour, ramp to 72, hold 10-30 minutes and then mash out at 78. Sparge at 78. I'd rather start too cold than too hot. Plus, there's some other enzymes in there that work at low temps but get denatured at 63+ (like proteases and beta-glucanases).
Freighter base bug?
Does anyone else get the annoying bug wherein when warping to the freighter, you end up in the module that contains the portal, but somehow that entire place (which in my case contains a planetary scanner, some fleet command posts and a galactic trade terminal) becomes offset by a little bit in relation to the rest of the base, which means corridors no longer link and it's just a wall inside the module, and doors become just a tiny bit separated so that you to jump over a handrail to exit unto the external walkway?
Has anyone been able to track this to some cause? I've had it happen almost every warp while being in a certain system, while for others I've gone 2 weeks without any such incident.
I think the full phrase is De gustibus non disputandum in contradictorium (declinations might be off somewhere)
In large cities, sure, but mostly out of necessity. Historically, the communist regimes there sort of forced industrialization on people. Workforce was needed so they moved people from the countryside into flats, close to the workplace. As the change was mostly sudden, it was a bit of a culture shock due to people suddenly moving from their own house with a yard into a wee matchbox and not really adjusting behaviour to the new circumstances. So the apartment building culture in such places is quite different from the western one (in terms, for instance, of being respectful of your neighbour - like not drilling on Sunday at 8 am because that's when the quiet time - according to the law - ends).
So the drive there is to get your own house away from hundreds of neighbours as soon as you have the means, even if it implies commuting in hellish traffic.
Coincidentally, also why you might see some pushback from those places when people suggest walkable cities with apartment blocks. Because when suggesting that, everyone thinks Sweden or Denmark, not Eastern Europe.
Yes, please. We need more Mazda MX-5s, less SUVs on the road and in terms of offers from car manufacturers. I know, technically not a track car, but you can still have lots of fun with it on the track without spending several peoples' kidneys worth.
Quantized model issues
Hey, so first off, this is my first time dabbling with LLMs and most of the information I found myself by rummaging through githubs.
I have a fairly modest set-up, an older gaming laptop with a RTX3060 video card with 6 GB VRAM. I run inside WSL2.
I have had some success running fastchat with the vicuna 7B model, but it's extremely slow, at roughly 1 word every 2-3 seconds output, with --load-8bit, lest I get a CUDA OOM error. Starts faster at 1-2 words per second but slows to a crawl later on (I suspect it's because it also uses a bit of the 'Shared video RAM' according to the task manager). So I heard about quantization which is supposed to compress models at the cost of some accuracy. Tried ready-quantized models (compatible with the fastchat implementation) from hugginface.co, but I ran into an issue - whenever I'd ask something, the output would be repeated quite a lot. Say I'd say 'hello' and I'd get 200 'Hello!' in response. Tried quantizing a model myself with exllamav2 (using some .parquet wikitext files also from hugginface for calibration) and then using fastchat but the problem persists. Endless repeated output. It does work faster, though at the actual generation, so at least that part is going well.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
More mods needed
Hey, folks.
So, we're up to 1.6k subscribers now (yay!). Thank you to everyone for making this possible!
So, it's probably time to add a couple more moderators.
We seem to be a pretty chill bunch so far, so do reach out if this is something that you're interested in.
85 kr - Wee heavy ish
A 7.5% ABV malt-forward beer, fermented with a kveik blend. Notes of bread crust, sugar plum, pear, nutmeg shine through on a malty base.
Malt: > Maris Otter 1 kg
> Light Munich 4 kg
> Chocolate Rye 0.2 kg
> Cara Rye 0.3 kg
> Crystal 150 0.3 kg
> Oak smoked wheat 0.2 kg
> extra: Table sugar 0.4 kg
Mash: > in @ 42 C
> 60' @ 63 C
> 20' @ 72 C
> out @ 78 C
Hops: > Northern Brewer 30g @ 60'
> Saaz 15g @ 10'
> H. Mittelfrüh 15g @ 10'
Yeast: Eitrheim Kveik
OG: 1.075 FG: 1.019
Boil volume - 23L. Bottled & kegged - 17.5L ( 1L trub loss). Kegged and bottled half and half. Bottled beer is rounder somehow (probably residual yeast activity?).
Edit: Light Munich, not dark. Notes just said 'Munich' - d'oh.
Anybody toying with Koji?
A while ago I managed to find a webshop selling koji spores and figured 'hell, why not?'.
I've seeded some rice successfully and made 2 batches of miso - one with chickpeas and another with plain old beans. Loved the results.
Then I was inspired by the veggie charcuterie I've seen Sandor Katz's book (I think it was there?) and thought I could maybe use it to make fake dry-sausages out of slabs of cooked seitan seeded with the koji spores. Success was limited since I did not get a full cover on the bits before the thing started sporulating, so I placed it in a dehydrator. Nevertheless, it was a fairly tasty addition to stir-fries, albeit a bit tough.
Anybody ever done funky things with koji? Looking for some weird new ideas to try out.
Intro to Beer Brewing
Greetings! Here's my attempt at creating an introduction to beer brewing. Please feel free to point out errors, inaccuracies, missing info, or anything you feel should be different.
Disclaimer: written under the influence of homebrew
Ingredients
- Yeast
In its most basic form, alcoholic fermentation is just yeasts chomping away at sugars to generate alcohol and carbon dioxide, giving our favourite beverage the buzz and fizz we enjoy. Depending on yeast strain and conditions (temperature, OG - that is initial or original gravity of the wort, nutrient availability), it may be more or less potent (in terms of alcohol tolerance) or yield more or less flavour compounds. Yeast suppliers usually give datasheets with temperature ranges and alcohol tolerances for yeasts.
- Malt
Malt is just grain that has been coerced into sprouting then dried. This unlocks enzymes within the grain that cut up complex sugars (starch) stored inside the grain into simpler sugars that the seedling would use as its initial energy stores. The drying conditions of the malt are what give us the large selection we have today. Do note, however, that the darker the malt, the less enzymatic activity it has.
- Hops
The main preservative in beer - hops inhibit lactobacilli that turn beer sour and give it the aroma we all know and love. Hops are defined by their alpha-acid content, which turn into beta-acids (that give beer its hop bitter taste) during boiling. The time of addition for hops is key for this, as longer boiling yields more beta-acids but loses flavour from the hops - hence, bittering hops are boiled for longer, aroma hops are boiled for less or not at all - added at whirlpool or used to dry-hop. Hops are also sensitive to oxidation, so they're stored in the freezer and sold in vacuum-sealed bags. There is a plethora of hops available from any self-respecting homebrew store and hop pellets (ground up and compressed hop flowers) are by far the most common form.
- Water
Without going into much detail, brewing water should not be overlooked. The ionic content of water does influence your beer quite a lot (for instance due to pH or presence / absence of magnesium ions that may bring out hop bitterness). Historically, brewing water has been tied to specific styles (like dry irish stout in Dublin, IPAs in Burton-on-trent or pilsners in Pilsen). Water used for brewing must, however, be chlorine-free, in order to avoid unpleasant flavours. This can be accomplished by using 1-2 campden tablets to 20L (~5 gal) water or filtering your water throught activated charcoal before use.
Process
- Sanitizing
The most important step in brewing - sanitizing stuff. Everything that does not get heated to at least pasteurization temperatures (~71 C or 161 F) needs to be sanitized. Everything that touches the wort after it's cooled or fermented beer needs to be sanitized. This cannot be stressed enough. Using StarSan diluted to its specification for about 30 seconds usually does the job. If something was sanitized and it touches something that was not, it needs to be sanitized again. Seriously, don't take this step lightly.
- Mashing
Involves keeping your mash (the mixture of crushed, malted grains and water) at a specific temperature for a specific amount of time in order to transform the starch in the grains into simpler sugars that yeasts can digest. Some usual conditions would be 63-66 C (145-150 F) for one hour - these give a good balance of body and fermentability. More advanced brewers (or those posessing more advanced equipment) may do step mashes. The temperatures are selected in order to favour different enzymes present in the malt. A mash-out step is usually just heating the mash to 78 C (172 F) - this preserves just a bit of enzymatic activity - alpha-amylase (the one responsible for body) stops working around this temperature.
Regarding water:grain ratio, I personally use around 6 kg (12 lbs) to 23 L water (6 gal).
At the end of mashing, the liquid has to be separated from the solids by either transferring through a sieve (mash tun to boil kettle) or removing the solids (like the case for brew-in-a-bag or all-in-one systems - Braumeister, Grainfather).
- Sparging
Sparging involves pouring water heated to the mash-out temperature over the spent grain in order to extract any lingering bit of sweetness that did not make it to the boil kettle. (I have no idea how you would do this when using brew-in-a-bag, though - edit: apparently you don't, problem solved :) ).
(Extract brewers will usually skip the steps above and just dissolve the extract in water then proceed to the boil)
- Boiling
The purpose of boiling is two-fold. First, to remove dimethylsulfide, or DMS, a compound obtained during mashing that has a vegetable-like flavour usually undesireable in beer. The other purpose is to extract compounds from hops and convert them from alpha- (aromatic) to beta-acids (bitter) to provide bitterness, aroma, and preservative qualities to the beer. (It also concentrates the wort.)
Boiling usually takes 1 hour (as that is the amount of time that usually removes all the DMS). The boil can be longer if one wishes to concentrate the wort further.
Timing and quantities of hop additions are very important to the final hop flavour profile of the beer. The more hops are boiled, the more aroma they lose and the more they impart bitterness to your beer.
- Chilling, transfer to fermenter and pitching yeast
Once the wort is done boiling, it is cooled (usually by applying cold water through a cooling implement - jacket or wort chiller), transferred to the fermenter and the yeast is added (or pitched). The simplest way of doing this is to add the dry yeast directly over the wort. Everything that touches wort after chilling must be sanitized (refer to step 0) - this includes the outside of the yeast packet before opening it.
Gravity readings (OG, original gravity) are taken of the cooled wort using a densimeter or refractometer.
- Fermentation
The fermenter is placed in conditions adequate for the beer style being prepared and the yeast being used (lagers in cold conditions, ales a bit warmer, saisons or kveik yeasts in even warmer conditions) - check the yeast for information on temperatures, fitted with an airlock. When the airlock no longer significantly bubbles (or better yet, the gravity of the wort is where one would expect it to be based on recipe), fermentation is done. I just eyeball it and when I get 1-2 air bubbles / minute in the airlock, I declare it done. YMMV.
- Bottling or kegging
Refer to step 0. Yes, sanitize all bottles. Sanitize that keg. Sanitize your hands and the racking cane. Then sanitize your hands again. Are your hands sanitary? Better do it again, just to make sure.
In order to get carbonation in the finished product, table sugar can be added based on style and carbonation preferences to the finished beer before bottling. The yeast left over in the solution will take care of the rest. A good starting point would be 4-5 g/L of table sugar (or 0.5 to 0.66 oz/gal). I usually add it as syrup made by dissolving the sugar in water, boiling, cooling (covered - refer to step 0) and mixing the whole sugar with the whole batch of beer. Then transfer to bottles or keg, and wait 1-2 weeks. Chill, and serve.
If kegging, you can also force carbonate by adding beer and pressurizing with carbon dioxide for about a week or so.
- Cleaning
Cleaning and sanitizing are the most important steps in brewing. Clean equipment is easier to sanitize. Sanitized equipment is less likely to give you any contamination. While contamination can just sour your beer, it may also cause exploding bottles. ____
Some great advice from the comments:
____ Feedback is welcome, and will edit this post as required. Cheers!
Games optimized because of Steam Deck
I got my steamdeck at the end of Q3 2022.
Then I tried different games on it that were not necessarily advertised as working.
One of these was x4. Now, x4 in september 2022 was a really tough thing to play on the deck. even at the lowest settings, I would get around 10 fps. (A couple of months later I tried Elite:Dangerous and it ran surprisingly smooth.)
Fast forward to last month, a new patch for x4 and surprise! The devs put in some elbow grease and the game is playable on my steam deck. Sure, no max level detail eyecandy but it runs acceptable and loads fairly well. I think this is a very nice example of how this piece of kit stimulated a company to look at some optimizations.
Anybody got any other examples of games seemingly optimized during their lifecycle for or because of the steam deck?
PSA for language_not_allowed error
Just came across this. If you get a language not allowed error in the app when trying to post, it could be a mismatch between the language in the user profile and the community language. I discovered this while trying to comment on a community I am a mod in and kept getting denied (my profile language remains 'undefined' and the community had English selected only - guess I got overzealous).
My takeaway from this is to keep the 'undefined' language tag in communities just to be on the safe side.
Rice wine with red yeast rice
Hey all. I live near Boston, so we have a banging Chinatown. I went there to try and find some Koji rice or Koji-kin... I was going to make Sake. Here's where my adventure begins... Wandering through aisle after aisle of things, no English, even the workers can't understand you... But you know...
So a while ago I stumbled upon some red yeast rice at my local asian store and fell down a rabbit hole started by the linked post (there is another - 159 page - post on those forums dedicated to rice wine - enter at your own peril).
I've managed to create about 2 very small batches of rice wine.
For the first batch I used red yeast rice for saccharification and some brewer's yeast for fermentation - results were good, out of about 3.5 kg cooked rice I got maybe 1 L of wine, slightly cloudy.
Second time I got the same quantities roughly but used red yeast rice for saccharification plus chinese yeast balls for saccharification plus fermentation. Wine was a bit tastier this time and I think the aspect was a bit better - clearer.
For both batches I filled a Kilner jar (3L) fitted with an airlock on a silicone cap and topped up with rice as it liquified (couldn't get the whole amount in there to start with). Mostly eyeballed the quantities. Straining out the solids proved to be very difficult as it turns into a slurry - think stuck mash, but worse.
Finished them off by pasteurizing - I stored them in roughly 300 mL jars - in a pot of water and heating to 70 C. I did notice that the liquid becomes a bit clearer after pasteurization (possibly residual enzymatic activity?).
Overall the drink was very pleasant, slightly fruity but also bread-crust-y. The process however, especially the straining, is very labor intensive and I would love to hear some ideas on improvement.
Greetings and brew brag
Hey, everyone! Figured I'd fire up a homebrewing community and see if there's any takers.
I know you're out there, just as I was out there lurking on other similar sites. :D
Come here and brag with your latest creation. I'll start, just brewed an unexpected wee heavy using Eitrhem kveik.
Cheers!
edit: typo