As a french press user I put the beans in the press vessel, start the water kettle (double checking that water is in), forget about it all so water will have to be reheated, pour water over beans, forget about it all for 15-83 minutes and then finally get to enjoy my coffee.

Will drink it all. And wish I had made more.

What OS for me?

My take is that it is reaction that American society will be stable going forward, no election riots etc. Just business as usual.

Gonna do the same. Wake up, hit snooze, check SVT and Dagens Nyheter, and then onwards to /c/political memes. Possibly an excursion to BBC and CBC.

With a set up to 80 (assuming lbs) you can go a long way. 160lb in dumbbells is a fair bit and can go quite a bit of the way. For the rest of the way single leg focused exercises such as lunges, Bulgarian squats, SL Romanian deadlift, staggered stances, dragon squat etc will do the trick.

This is the silliness that is desired. Our heir apparent have yet to take up her father’s penchant for silly hats. One day I hope.

For me the lack of voice acting isn’t a detriment. Far from it. I much prefer the walls of text to cinematic stuffs.

Always be looking for a new job, you never know when a new boss arrives and makes it horrible.

Pottery class. You are a dirty mess, every one is a dirty mess and y’all have something in common. Plus it is an artistic expression and as long as you are willing to talk about artistic struggles being “bad” isn’t detriment at all. And worst comes to show you now have a new coffee cup.

Replace Pottery with whatever is offered locally.

Home (subscribed) and Local set to Hot

All set to Top Six Hours. When doomscrolling I on occasion set it to either Scaled or Active

To add with another cast iron tip. If you have cleaned with water (its simple and quick) dry it off roughly and put it back on the hot stove. This drives off the last moisture.

Last camp of the year is always special. I may have had my last last weekend but if the weather hold I can probably squeeze in another. Where I am (southern Sweden) night temperatures are still well above 5C so for me very much camping weather.

Have yet to play it but Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous does have some similar themes. If you haven’t looked at it already give it a glance.

Tomato sauce, thinly sliced garlic, red onion

Sauce, (button?) mushrooms, garlic, black pepper

Sauce spiced with harissa, red onion and served with hummus

Sauce, pesto

Walks around town

Bike ride

Gym

Walk along the stream looking at the mallards

Trail running (as soon as I get started with it…)

Park/square bench, filled thermos and something to read

My guess would be that it is much easier to report on some metric and compare that to other metrics compared to content critique.

Or that industry cares more about metrics about profitability than anything else.

And someone will have to go on an Orphic journey to bring back his lost lover.

Not OP but also a Swede. I mainly use two stores as I can get them to weigh up all my specialty malts in custom weights. If I want 2kg of one, .5kg of another and .25kg of a third they do it. For an extra fee. They are MaltMagnus and BryggNisse. Humlegårdens Ekolager is the “fancy” store I browse from time to time, seldom purchase.

I have a brick-and-mortar store “nearby” but out of the way that I should buy more from. But I so seldom pass by.

Great writeup!

A few comments/additions.

a) if you are hesitant at brewing a whopping 10L with all the mess that entails (my first was horrendous) go for a smaller batch. 5L is great for experimentation. In fact i often brew smaller batches when I want to try something out. But I find it is almost the same amount of work brewing 10L as 5L.

b) mashing can cheaply be done in an extra fermentation bucket you have drilled a whole bunch of holes in. Or any other large container that fits inside your pot. 1.5-2mm large holes I have in mine. This way when mashing is done lautering can be done by just lifting the bucket out of the pot and put a grate between it and the pot. Now it can sit there and just drain off. And do insulate the mash. Old foam sleeping mat, blanket or whatever all works well.

c) yes you can use baker’s yeast. Have done it and it gives a very fruity-yeasty taste and smell. Does ferment much faster, 2-54 days is often enough. Some traditional beers (the Finnish Sahti for example) is made with baker’s yeast.

d) before bottling I highly recommend you transfer the beer from the fermentation bucket to another vessel because of all the gunk at the bottom. I have a bucket with a tap that connects to the tapper for this purpose and only this purpose. But you can just use the pot you mashed/boiled it in.

dd) a word about oxygen. It destroys beer. The more oxygen the finished beer is exposed to the shorter its shelf life. Doesn’t matter much if you drink it within a month or two after bottling but beyond that oxidization will start to be noticeable. May not matter much for the first batch but beyond that I highly recommend investing in a bottling setup. Rough calculations put me at 50€ for this (bucket 16L, tap, tapper, siphon, 1m silicon tube).

e) on cooling. If you boil and while boiling put on a good lid you have a pretty sanitary environment for the wort to cool in. I have seen some use plastic cans they pour the hot wort in and seal with a screw cap. If you have one laying around that could be an option.

f) yes you can use plastic bottles for bottling. But do be careful as they cannot handle as high pressures as glass ones. Great for green (unaged) beers, kombucha, kvass etc. Just be ready to release the pressure in the every now and then. Look up kombucha bomb" for what can happen.

I think that may be all my comments. Again. Great writeup.

Europe’s free speech is far more free than the US

But not Europes FREEZEPEACH™! And freezepeach is all that matters

Yes.