@homebrewing this months photo is from tour of local brewery I was on last week. It is the bottom of the primary fermentation tanks - cylindrical-conical tanks. They are 8m in diameter and 26m high. If I recall correctly they can take about 4 batches which is what they brew per day (in 24 hours, in season they brew 24/7 5days per week).

From outside they look like this:

@finitebanjo methanol is dangerous only in high concentration, so distillates. This will be just OK. Beer, wine, mead, cider... just doesn't have the problem there.

Also with distillation it is bad technology or somebody is just an idiot who doesn't know what fractional distillation is.

@finitebanjo yes it is stainless steel.

But it's not fermenter so only starch and sugars (and bunch of other compounds like enzymes but it's not that important for your worries) are present at this stage.

As for methanol it is made by fermentation of more complex compounds that just aren't in beer. Even in commercial brewing context stainless is heavily used for nearly everything, at 5% ABV it just isn't issue.

So all juiced, it could be better it has 11% sugars (2% less then last time we did it). Still better than last year when we didn't have any apples.

#cider #homebrewing @homebrewing@sopuli.xyz @homebrewing@a.gup.pe

During this week I got to know this quite odd brewery at my university - the picture above. It has lot of weird quirks because it is just ~150l setup with same technology as 1000l+ setup. It sometimes doesn't make much sense but you can brew pretty much anything in it.

Yeah I will probably be down there quite a lot during my studies ;-)

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@CorneliusTalmadge problem is that 10kg is good for like 8000l or so (depends on the beer style, it is guesstimate from big batches I made when I worked in brewery) so still bit too much for stuff like that. It is more than lifetime supply for my homebrewing and as you said not good for serious brews.

I put some in freezer (~1year for me) and some for other people to use. In total ~5kg set aside and I can get another 20kg of this stuff.

So if someone has any ideas what to do with shitload of hops I'm all in for some nefarious experiments.

@GuloGulo @homebrewing
to snad NEE!

Pivní pálenka je fakt nic moc. Myslím že jsme to udělali jen jednou když se něco fakt hodně nepovedlo a pak jsme to používali na mytí oken.

@finitebanjo there is bunch of misconception about methanol. If I remember correctly it is created by partial fermentation of cellulose, so pits and seeds left in fermenter in making of fruit distillates. But the yeast just likes sugars more so it is just really small quantity and you just discard the "head" part (that is distilled first) and take only the part with mostly ethanol.

Lighter alcohol is basically made from sugar water, no cellulose is there so no methanol is created.

Also methanol poisoning is bit weird - methanol is harmless in the body but metabolites are dangerous. Basically ethanol is broken down to acetaldehyde that is useful for other metabolic processes, but methanol is broken down to formaldehyde that is dangerous and for some reason likes to damage optical nerves.

Fortunately enzyme that breaks down ethanol don't like methanol that much, so when you drink some small amount of methanol mixed with ethanol you pee out the methanol and process the ethanol. Antidote for methanol is literally keeping you drunk until you pee out all the methanol.

I hope this info will at least clear out some of the misconceptions that you got.

@homebrewing do you have some ideas what I can do with some hops?

It is bit older, probably not too bitter but still nice aroma. Only thing I know it is T90 Sládek from 2017.

@AchtungDrempels I am glad you saw it, my instance went down after I posted it. So now I have to use mastodon (my alt account instance doesn't federate with world)

@AchtungDrempels I hope you get well soon. And thanks for adding to my post, unfortunately I can't see your response on my instance.

@Anibyl @mariusor @bicycle_touring @number6 @schmaker

Just to clarify for all of you. Recumbent bike balance only in some speed, for me it is ~6 kph. So on normal bike I can spin my legs go slowly, still balance and gradually push through the hill. But on this I have to keep some tempo even uphill and can't help myself by standing up.

@jeena yes, if you want to know more: https://mstdn.dk/@EvilCartyen/113198511530283716

It is much better resource than what I wrote on Lemmy year ago. He also writes about what you can add. In my case I make cider from whatever apples I can get my hands on.

@ascentale @homebrewing my cider usually don't have time to age - I drink it too quickly. Maybe it will get better with age I am usually quite surprised when I find some forgotten 1+ year bottle.

@ikidd I should probably write the posts when I am sober...

@Tehdastehdas @DivingPinguin

I would like to exchange pedaling hard for more cadence because it is quite hard with long cranks on my knees. With short cranks it is easier and I want to change them. Also lot of other stuff because it is quite old and it shows (mostly regular stuff like bearings, pedals, cables...) so I will be taking it apart after the season and doing all of that.

@AndiPopp @homebrewing I know, few months ago I was in Belgium and visited brewery that makes lambics.

Tbh I really don't like this style I was thinking about some dubbel or some different strong style.

@MuteDog sweet ones, that's just what I have. I was asking more about the usage - where to put it in the process in fermenter, to the boil (as I found someone do it with concentrate)