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akrennmair

@akrennmair@mastodon.beer

🇦🇹 living in 🇩🇪. Software developer. I like, brew and write about beer.

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wannabemystiker, to beer Danish
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A beer style question:

In Charlie Papazian's The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, he describes an Irish beer style, "Foreign (Export) Stout," with an ABV range of 5.7 to 9.3%. I'm used to seeing regular dry stouts (3.5 to 5% ABV) and imperial stouts (9 to 12% ABV) but not much in between. Are there any commercially-brewed "Foreign (Export) Stout"-style beers that are available in the western part of the USA? I'd like to try one and see if this might be the next style of beer I brew.


akrennmair,
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@wannabemystiker Guinness Foreign Extra Stout would be a classic stout that falls exactly in that band with 7.5% ABV. Can you maybe get that? The Nigerian version of it is also pretty famous, made from a sorghum base beer blended with Guinness Flavour Extract.

akrennmair,
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@wannabemystiker it packs quite the punch. It's a bit acidic, quite toasty, and I always get a hint of sour cherry. It's a very viscous beer, entirely different from the draught stout or even the bottled export stout.

akrennmair,
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@wannabemystiker basically all the beers outside of Bavaria were top-fermented. So yes, lots of top-fermented beers in that book, the yeast strains are mostly guesses though as there were probably lots of yeast strains around that have simply been lost since then.

akrennmair,
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@wannabemystiker thanks a lot, and enjoy the book!

akrennmair, to beer
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Why Augustiner's new alcohol-free Helles is a big deal.

https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/why-augustiners-new-alcohol-free-helles-is-a-big-deal/

#beer

akrennmair,
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@jyrgenn I don't know for sure, but I'd guess it has all the properties of a dealcoholized beer. The high bitterness of Jever probably also hides other unpleasant flavours. But I'm not aware about anything special about Jever Fun.

As soon as I see it somewhere in Berlin, I'll let you know and we can try it together.

akrennmair,
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@yrlaNor I have not, but I will seek it out. Thanks for the tip!

zuck, to random

First post in the fediverse! 👋

akrennmair,
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@zuck only likes? What about replies from the Fediverse (like this one)?

akrennmair,
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@darwinwoodka I don't care about the Zuck, but I really can't wait for Threads to be able to fully interact with the rest of the Fediverse.

akrennmair,
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@TwodpadsDown @Maeve @darwinwoodka exactly this. Threads adopting and integrating ActivityPub to connect to the wider Fediverse is just an indicator it has "won" as a protocol. I get to interact with friends on Threads w/o having to create a separate account there, and everyone on the Fediverse who hates Meta and Threads and wants nothing to do with them is still free to block the whole domain, or move to an instance that blocks it on a global level.

akrennmair,
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@Maeve just learn to use the block function instead of complaining here.

akrennmair,
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@Maeve no, blocking is exactly the point: you can choose to completely keep away any perceived toxicity not just on an individual (account) level, but on an instance level. That is a different level of resilience against toxicity compared to entirely centralized systems.

akrennmair,
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@Maeve see my other reply. Just use the tools available to you. Parts of the Fediverse will certainly treat threads.net as a toxic dumpster fire and block the whole instance, and that's fine. That's the great thing about the Fediverse, that it has the tools available for this kind of self-regulation.

akrennmair, to beer
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In a bit of a change of tone, here's me lamenting about my recent frustrations about liquid yeast and what consequences I'm drawing from it. https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/liquid-yeast-why-do-i-even-bother/

akrennmair,
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@Mutedog I‘ve seen this mentioned before, that lager yeast in the grand scheme has very little genetic diversity. One thing to worry less about, I suppose.

As for Saaz-type yeast, I‘m also fairly sure that it‘s basically commercially unavailable to home-brewers. I‘ve spoken to two yeast producers, one of them said their bottom-fermented yeasts are all Frohberg, no exception, while the other one said that Saaz-type yeast just has no commercial relevance anymore b/c of reasons.

akrennmair,
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@Mutedog the reasons are apparently poor attenuation and poor diacetyl reduction, even though it ferments otherwise cleaner than Frohberg and can deal better with lower temperatures.

akrennmair,
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@Mutedog hmm, that now makes me wonder whether Wyeast 2001, which I remember as a very distinct diacetyl producer, is actually a Saaz-type yeast. Somebody should ask Wyeast.

akrennmair,
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@Liam Gozdawa, a Polish manufacturer, has a dry Altbier yeast strain, but I‘ve never tried it. From the strains I know, I‘d most likely choose LalBrew Köln. I used it for a Wiess, and it came out incredibly clean even at 20°C fermentation temperature.

akrennmair, to homebrewing
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Here's my write-up of how to brew Mönchsambacher Weihnachts-Bock, according to brewmaster Stefan Zehendner (and what I managed to take notes of).
https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/how-to-brew-monchsambacher-weihnachts-bock-according-to-the-brewmaster/

#homebrewing #franconianbeer

publicvoit, to berlin German
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Ich habe den Donnerstag für mich in .

Ich war bereits schon öfters dort, die Standardsachen dürfte ich vermutlich bereits gesehen haben.

Gibt's Tipps, was ich mir diesmal ansehen sollte? Gerne auch Ausgefallenes!

Möchte sich gar jemand mit mir wo treffen?

akrennmair,
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@publicvoit das Alliierten-Museum in der Clayallee finde ich ganz gut, Eintritt ist frei und man kann sogar den richtigen Checkpoint Charlie dort sehen.

Für ein Treffen hab ich leider keine Zeit, dafür ist bei mir beruflich zuviel los. 😕

akrennmair, to random
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I wrote about the diversity of beer styles, or lack thereof ("everybody's just brewing IPAs"), how this is not a new phenomenon, and how it affected Germany's beer landscape. https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/the-diversity-of-beer-200-years-ago-and-now/

publicvoit, to random German
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Um Papier zu sparen: Sparkasse Bremen verschickt 15.000 USB-Sticks mit AGB
https://www.heise.de/news/Um-Papier-zu-sparen-Sparkasse-Bremen-verschickt-15-000-USB-Sticks-mit-AGB-9641628.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag

Ich bin mir sicher, die Verantwortlichen werden ihren Fehler einsehen und das nächste Mal stattdessen Faxgeräte verschicken.

in 🤷

akrennmair,
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@publicvoit Goodhart's Law in action.

akrennmair,
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@publicvoit ich fand den aktuellen XKCD dazu ja ganz knackig und nicht ganz so ökonomiezentriert. https://xkcd.com/2899/

publicvoit, to random German
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Leserbrief beim : https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9b23750c

Wenn die bei einem Zug zu viel Verspätung bekommt, wird der ursprüngliche Zug als Ausfall deklariert und gleichzeitig als sein eigener Ersatzzug wieder eingesetzt. Das Zugpersonal bekommt davon nicht mal was mit.

Elegant, um die drohenden Zahlungen oder schlechte Statistik zu verhindern, würde ich sagen. Chapeau!

akrennmair,
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@publicvoit das klingt wie die logische Fortsetzung der Pofalla-Wende. https://www.eurailpress.de/bahn-manager/detail/news/db-puenktlichkeit-datenexperte-findet-verblueffendes-zur-pofalla-wende.html

akrennmair, to random
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The metric cup of 250ml (as used in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) implies the existence of a metric pint of 500ml and a metric gallon of 4 liters, and all the other units derived from the gallon.

akrennmair,
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@yildo there are probably very few things more Canadian than a bag of milk, and then a metric gallon of it!

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