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OK Ok in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Shamelessly plugging [email protected]

Do you check historic brewerys? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It was built 100 yers after lager brewing proces and ~500 years after hops usage. 200 years ago or so the brewing process became more industrialized, this brewery was modernized multiple times and was in use until 1977.

In about 200 years it basically didn't changed. But these really old technologies and history is interesting too, you just refer to something at least 100 years off of what I refer to in my post.

I hope that I will visit National museum of brewing technology this fall, they have loads of instruments, machinery and stuff from 19th and early 20th century when they really experimented with the process. In my opinion it is most interesting part of industrial brewing history.

Stuck fermentation? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It may be bad storage on distribution site or something you can't affect. You just can't recognize it if you don't do it every day, even in industrial setting you can notice it after few days so don't think about it that much. You probably got bad batch of yeasts, it happens, I do the same thing and usually it is ok.

The dropping out of beer characteristics of yeasts is attribute after they die so you could get less vital batch or something it doesn't say much.

For storing in fridge it is usually enough at about 5°C the yeasts settle down and you don't need filtration or pasteurization for getting clean long lasting beer (when you store it correctly).

So tldr of your issue is probably combination of bad measurements and bad batch of yeasts, shit happens, and good luck on next try - you probably didn't do anything wrong.

Stuck fermentation? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Congrats you made drinkable beer. At least it wasn't complete loss.

Bad yeasts is pretty easy issue to solve so good luck on your next brews.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It is standard on these regional trains here. When the weather is nice loads of people use it.

Busses don't like bikes here, but it usually isn't problem because we have dense rail network and you can ride about 5km to nearest station.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I took the photo few stops before end station, there was another bike and lot more people but for 10 minutes I had the section for myself.

Also I planed for less busy time.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

With my muscles and it isn't locked, you put front wheel on hook and rear wheel in the rack. It is secure only when you have the sweet spot of tire size- MTB doesn't fit and road bike moves too much. But I never had issues with this system.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I mean like bigger cassette, larger tires, changes in cockpit, suspension stem and seat post...

Mainly to make it more comfortable on longer rides and remedy some bad choices when I built it.

And yes hy/rd breaks are on the list.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

And I thought that linking map of brewerys in my country to my last post was unnecessary. If you will tour Czech Republic you will know where to go.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Thanks. It is "work in progress" as almost all touring/universal bikes are.

Basically it is semi custom built - I got omnium cxc v3 frameset and completed it with Shimano parts. Now after about 5500km I have a whole list of things to upgrade.

On Friday it was about 31°C and high humidity, so I opted to shorten my route. in c/bicycle_touring
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

After I saw my friend, who rode there on road bike about 100km, I knew it was good call to scratch the route.

I stopped at the pub for some radler and ice cream and when I stepped outside ice cream melted and I had warm radler. So yeah it was due to weather.

Cooking kombucha scobi pellicle in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It is so interesting to me the uses of "leftovers" or byproducts of brewing.

From our brewery ve give the yeasts away to somebody who makes cosmetic products from them (but not too often usually it ends up dumped in sewer). And used up malt ends up as animal feed loads of people want it for chickens, sheeps, goats, cows you name it.

I consume these byproducts when they go though some animal :-)

Sometimes we get some chicken (3,5 kg or so large from small farm not the 1kg ones), and few months ago I got whole lamb.

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Maps (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/bicycling
7 comments fedilink
 

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.

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Maps (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

Crosspost. I got good recommendations on another community and I am interested in your picks.

Edit (original post text)

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.

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Maps (sopuli.xyz)
 

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.

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Plans for next season. (cross post it didn't federate correctly) (sopuli.xyz)
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Plans for next season. (sopuli.xyz)
 

So I plan few trips for next season.

First one in last week of July - get to Vienna, around Danube to Linz and then back to CZ to small town Slavonice. (About 600km I plan it for 7-9 days)

Second to Hamburg - the farthest city with direct train back home. (About 900 km I think it will take me about 14 days)

Few shorter trips and 10km every day to work...

My brother said now something like "C'mon next year you will have 5000 km on bike"

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Riding in snow. (sopuli.xyz)
 

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.

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Christmas wishlist (sopuli.xyz)
 

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).

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Weekend well spent. (sopuli.xyz)
 

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.

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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
777 comments fedilink
 

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.

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Problems that only in family with shared brewery can occur. (sopuli.xyz)
 

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 "

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Do you drink beer when you brew? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink
 

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?

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Do you use/mess with wild yeasts? (sopuli.xyz)
 

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?

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