This is maceration not fermentation but I unintentionally did something similar with red currants and wine. I don’t know how I made it but it was partly fermented with sugar wine and vodka (or some other clear distillate) to add more alcohol to be stable.

Found bottle few weeks ago and it was amazing, I forgot about it after I tasted it and don’t liked it few years ago.

I don’t like distillates that much, bit too strong for me, but basically fruit+bit of sugar+time+still and you have some eastern Europe pálenka/slivovice (from plums) or other “moonshine”.

If you look at it from the political side that this is the basic idea of liberal democracy.

Everyone votes in their best interest and especially in proportional representation you get some compromise of the interests.

Right now at least in politics people act less in their own interest but more of what they emotionally feel like their interest.

Btw this can be found by just using iodine solution to test it. I think that it can be found at pharmacy. Your wort is quite dark but it is doable to test it.

Put few drops of wort on plate, on side the iodine and look for colour change on the border where it mixes.

Really nice experience - 9 completely different beers, it was more local so I was bit of curiosity but I had really good chat with few people there.

Yes some stout with bourbon, beer brewed with spruce, tripels and more. Every beer just tasted completely different.

Yesterday I crossed the border, tooted on mastodon and someone told me about local craft beer fest…

I think that the first day in Belgium was really great.

Yeah, I changed my plans again few weeks ago.

I met someone that I promised to show her the beer culture in CZ, so I am taking train from Brussels to Czech to meet her there in few weeks. I will skip the German/Netherlands part.

But the craft beer scene is, according to people I talked to, biggest around Barcelona. Sometimes you just randomly find some place like NASA brewery in Pontevedra (I liked it, really nice place).

I live in CZ and beer is mostly water so it doesn’t make much sense to ship it that far and we have lot of small brewerys. They usually experiment somehow but not much of them got to Belgian styles.

I had few Belgian beers, one pub have sometimes few bottles, but not that much. That’s why I am going to Belgium…

For me obviously nothing much in the brewing sense but I will be in the next few days in Belgium so at least some good beer after these few months.

Didn’t like that much Spanish beer, but the craft beer scene here starts to pick up and they have some nice refreshing IPAs and other ale styles (the commercial beer was nearly undrinkable). Similar in Portugal, but the craft scene isn’t that big.

I didn’t had single beer that I would consider talking that much about in France, the blonde just isn’t for me.

Now that there is a thread about your bomb, I just want to add that for most things you don’t exactly need fermentation cap (the bubbler). Some cloth over the top is enough.

If it doesn’t stink I would just taste it as it is.

I was re-watching few of the Thought Emporium videos and got the urge to do it. He made GMO yeast for making bread (“golden bread”). And as one genecist told in interview I listened to long time ago - Most of the GMO techniques are so simple that you can do them in kitchen.

So picking strain of yeast that doesn’t drop out easily from the beer, commercially available DNA marker and mush them together.

It will still be some time before I brew. But I start to think about GMO yeast that can produce some fluorescent color. It would be cool to have some hazy beer under blue light…

Certainly not legal in EU but I think that it can be done pretty easily.

Both of them? They made game for each election.

If you are interested in foreign politics:

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You had to get our former president and ruzzian asset to vote.

Just to add I don’t brew mead I want to try it sometime but didn’t hot to it yet.

I like bottles that don’t need special tools to close. So swingtop or even pet (if it is something I will drink soon).

It is in my opinion too big to join now as a new user, I think there are some issues with moderation also.

Fediverse needs to scale horizontally so it is bad idea to join the largest server.

It will be only rough measurement, you can just take FG in °Pt (Bx) and it is %of sugar so pretty easy to calculate it.

The OP on mastodon is looking only for retrofit non returnable wine bottles.

In the post it is explained that it is meant for reusing wine bottles not buying new ones. And it mostly doesn’t matter that it can’t be used under pressure because it is for syrups and other non pressure stuff.

So these are for wine bottles, it is retrofit with the collar, it isn’t just the flip cap.