There is few theories about it. The most interesting to me is that it makes some evolutionary advantage for living in groups and raising children. There is a study that more older brothers you have the larger chance you will be gay. But sometimes it is just some gene mishap, because our sexuality is somehow hard coded.

Yeah I know the days when anything that could go wrong goes wrong. In my case it is usually my attempts to correct my mistakes that makes it even worse. And I am still genuinely surprised that I made something good.

In our case it is issue of quantity, we have 40l batches and it is too much for one person to pull the bag/manipulate with pots.

We have false bottom pot on lift and it isn’t ideal but still much better than BIAB. It needs some work/ new pot for heating (we got the induction heater for free) and because the bottom valve is bad.

After trying/helping some friends with their systems I think that our setup is maybe the best you can have.

When it’s apple season, loads of people reach me and my friend if we want some. This year we had to stop taking new apples because we didn’t had the capacity to process them all.

Now I have about 40l of archive worthy cider (some was consumed/given away already).

I tried to use wood chips and it turned out amazing.

I will start.

Last month I helped my dad with converting his settup to BIAB. It didn’t go too well, he thought it would be simpler and less work. Tldr it is simpler but it requires more work. So he will probably stay on current settup. We have to upgrade the pots for induction (it is needed after 15 years some valves are falling apart).

Not only Germans but all sides. They were used as scout units and for delivery.

That’s maybe a better question.

Divorced but still friends

You probably didn’t checked recent politics of our countries. Still could be worse (looks south).

Some mastodon instance has it covered already. https://eigenmagic.net/@daedalus/113519360107067092

Probably, shimano has 3 hub types.

• 7,8,9 speed hub
• 9,10 speed
• 11, 12 speed (you can add shim to get it to 10)

If you have access to some 9 speed cassette, try to fit it (ask friends or lbs). I think that the 10 speed won’t fit but the 9 might be OK.

Man, more I looked in to it the more I ask if it would be better to use decathlon buy back program and buy another bike (like GRVL 120).

But if I would suggest to look in to Microshift Advent X or sword shifters/derailleurs. They are cheaper, only 10 speed (that’s good enough) and you can get decent gear range also if you go 2x it gets to even larger. It is compatible with shimano and fully mechanical.

I bikepack with 34/46 front and 11-42 back 10 speed and it is just barely enough gears.

Jep

Lol, mainly documentation and cad work. Dealing with architects if it is for trams or trolleybus lines, politicians and bureaucrats that makes the public orders and stuff like that.

For 10€, go for it! (If only they had trolleybus I would buy one for my brother).

This one is legendary, 14 000 units produced and still in use today (I rode one 30 min ago). Maybe the most produced tram to this day.

My brother started working for company that makes these things and now he points every little detail on them.

“Look at this insulator” “Look these anchor points are made at factory I visited last week” …

I will try catch one in my city. Unfortunately they didn’t allowed to add fireplace inside (too much hassle to put chimney there).

If you do it right, you don’t need to use those. In my experience straining it through something like this bag (I use bag for dry hopping or diaper) is enough. You just have to let it drain slowly to not disturb the “hop cake”.

You don’t need to stir it continuously!

Use hand stirrer (I have big wooden spoon for commercial kitchens), stir it for a minute (unti you see vortex forming), let it sit for ~5 minutes and then open the tap (at this point it wouldn’t be whirling around that much). You really need to let it sit to make the “hop cake” at the bottom of your kettle.

It works the same in commercial brewing settups. Just the times are longer and it is stirred by some pump.

So you don’t need anything special, I have basically the same settup as you and do it that way for 5+ years and it doesn’t need to be “hands-free solution”.

Our community !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz has for now everything beer, wine, cider… it didn’t reach the point of creating another specific, niche community. So I totally get the niche interests aren’t represented here yet and the number of homebrewers is big.

Still we get good engagement for lemmy and there are active people from industry, so I wouldn’t call it exactly small.

Accepting or requiring?