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I'm hoping to move on to Idiocracy pretty swiftly but need an overture.

It's been clearing out at 2,5 °C for over 24 hours already, so I couldn't wait any longer and took a little sampling. And it's a-lovely :D

This is pretty much a classic stout, but with Viking Malt's Sahti malt for the majority of the grist. The void-ness comes from Viking Malt's Black malt (1300 - 1500 EBC). Some leftovers of Tuoppi caramel rye malt and a calculated dose of Simpson's Premium English caramalt also went in. The rye in particular is keen to hijack the taste profile, bringing in the taste of Finnish classic 'kotikalja', a non-fermented malt beverage. That one is kept in it's place, but I do regret not using a bit more of the English caramalt.

The yeast used was the fresh yeast that's a hallmark of the sahti style. It gives a banana-like flavour, and I've found it can be controlled to a great extent by adjusting fermentation temperature. This one was set to 16,5 °C. Around 14 °C the banana aroma tends to get overpowered by fruity hops. Pressurised fermentation at 0,8 bar as always.

I made this batch to use up some leftovers, so I went with a pretty daring dosing of Moutere hop pellets for the first hop addition, followed up towards the end of the boil with Challenger. On this first tasting the Moutere is surprisingly subdued.

Plenty of time to run some xmas bottles for friends and family :) Cheers!

Hello brewies,

I'm trying to come up with a neat way to implement the whirlpool in my simple homebrew process. I do brew-in-a-bag in a large kettle that has a faucet / tap thing at the very bottom of the kettle. What happens is that I mash with the BIAB bag in the kettle, lift the bag out of the kettle into a straining contraption, get the kettle to boil, boil with hops and whatnot and after the boil is done, run the wort into the fermenter via said tap through a metal coffee filter cone.

Now if I could somehow get the wort to whirl around while running into the fermenter, the whirlpool effect would concentrate any gunk into the center of the whirlpool and the stuff coming out of the tap, located at the edge of the whirlpool, would give cleaner wort.

I could put together a bespoke stirrer, of course, but I'm looking for a crafty solution with common household items first, those are always preferred :) The solution must be hands-free and account for the fact that the level of wort in the kettle obviously goes down during the operation.

Magnetic stirrer probably wouldn't work because the kettle is stainless steel. A regular home mixer ran with one beater would tie up one hand (and having to hold it would probably mean some foreign material like cat hair off the sleeve in the wort). I'm also wary of doing it with a circulation pump like the commercial homebrew automaticksch do, because wort is hot and cleaning the pump and pipes is too much work.

But I'm sure Lemmy has the compound genius to solve this :D

You guys get along with so little. Here's what I never leave the house without, carried in a Fjällräven Greenland size S bag...:

– phone (up until recently I had a tiny Nokia dumbphone for voice calls because it sucks when someone calls on the smartphone during navigation while on motorcycle...) – wallet with home and office keys attached – a metal ring coupled to the bag strap for car / bike keys – case for glasses if I need to take them off (rarely used though) – tiny knife that masquerades as a bottle opener – bag with USB charger, power bank, assortment of short USB cables for all occasions, Arch Linux boot stick – a pen and a couple of permanent markers – travel toothbrush – lighter (I don't smoke but it makes me friends) – some lucky charms: gemstones picked by my daughter tied into a 'sausage' with some stretch fabric – T1D stuff: insulin pens in a gorgeous leather roll made by a friend - glucose meter with accessories - bag with pen needles - plastic jar with lid for used needles - pocket scale for weighing stuff to calculate carbs - glucose tablets and Skittles (great for microdosing carbs)

Not in shot: wrist watch.

Hello all groovy people –

I released my Renoise controls for the Steam Deck to Steam today as 'RenoiseDeck'. Not perfect, but pretty usable. Here's how:

– Left shoulder button = Edit on / off (Esc). Toggles entering notes. – D-pad = Arrow keys, move around. – (X) = delete. (A) = play / stop. (Y) and (B) = notes C and G for jamming, entering notes, previewing sounds etc.

– Left mousepad = 4 x 4 grid with a chromatic octave of notes starting at C on the top left. On top of of the 12 notes, there's the stopper (Caps Lock) and a couple of useful hex values. Right shoulder button shifts the grid to numbers and more hexes and effect command letters.

– Left hand back buttons: Top = F4 (Copy), Bottom = F5 (Paste). – Right hand back buttons: Top = Alt, Bottom = Ctrl. – Right shoulder button = Shift.

With these, you can: – Shift + arrows = make selection in the editor. – Alt + arrows = select instruments. – Ctrl + arrows = manipulate the pattern sequencer.

– Alt + copy / paste = Copy / paste selection in pattern. – Ctrl + copy / paste = Copy / paste pattern. – Shift + copy / paste = Copy / paste track.

One of the analog sticks acts as a slow mouse for precise control of sliders.

I was browsing for new games to enjoy on the lovely Deck. This one looked intriguing, but Steam is putting forth lots of warnings saying it's not supported on the Deck. Anybody out there having tried it?

I saw demos of Steam Input over the tubes and figured out I might be able to put together a mapping that makes Renoise the music tracker somewhat usable. I've had great success. Will be releasing the mapping on Steam as soon as I've seen it through some more iterations.