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Just an idea: do the infusion in some strong neutral alcohol (vodka or food grade 80% alcohol) and add it afterwards to your liking.

I don’t have experience with using chilly peppers but someone asked about it few months or so ago so maybe you can look there if they get some more advice.

As I have more time I will try to get this place bit more active. For now it averages around post per week and if you have some questions you get answers pretty quickly.

My kind of brewing is bit different. Usually I brew lagers under 6% ABV. Tbh I was now looking at the fermzila fermenter and decided that for my use it isn’t probably worth it but will upgrade different stuff.

Winemakers use flocculants and other means to bind that kind of impurities. Look in to it - bentonite clay comes to my mind right now.

You want to make the filtering step as easy as possible so use this, let it sit, decant only the clear liquid from top and than use filter on it.

Just this week someone brought keg of beer that was fermented with some fruit puree. We got it for free because it was just the bottom of the tank where everything sunk. I wouldn’t say I prefere it but it wasn’t at all bad - pretty much alcoholic food than drink.

Maybe if you want to land somewhere in between you can try to backsweeten with fruit puree the clear batch?

I love your description of Switzerland, as I was there last year I can tell it is true (but worth it at least once to get there).

Little cloudy is good. Today brew was cloudy a lot. We used some flocculant for the last 10 min of boil but it didn’t help that much, it helped a bit but not enough.

The photo in the post is from this brew and because of the cloudy residue it foamed a lot. So yeah I get that cloudiness is sometimes bit of nuance but the difference is “I don’t like how it looks in glass” and “it makes a lot of mess and I don’t know how to keep it in the pot”.

Good luck on your mead I hope it turns out well and only problem will be the cloudiness.

For me it is still quite hard to find specific product or something which doesn’t exist yet - for example last year I brewed beer with wine grape juice and because I doubled it as school project I found out it is quite hard to tax it so nobody is making it.

So yes I get the point but for me it still offers some added bonus compared to commercial beer.

I brew not because the price but because I want to try stuff and do some bit wild stuff that just isn’t available here.

I also worked in a professional craft brewery so I know a bit about the pricing and stuff like that. But I don’t think you need that much advanced brew equipment to make something bit more demanding.

That is really confusing even for me. For that money you can buy pretty large second hand brewing setup. Like 200-300l everything included.

Yeah as a Czech guy it is quite a bit different here.

It looks great but for me it is missing the beer tap.

Yeah “Who needs a hole” kinda guys…

My biology teacher then commented about all the features other animals evolved - bones, spiral shape, detaching one for long distance use in octopuses…

Yeah ours are kinda boring guys.

For older bikes there is dutchbikebits.com

It’s not that expensive, decathlon is cheaper but you can find there parts for old POS bikes with good price.

My biology teacher commented about it when we had the lesson about reproduction: “You know the human penis is quite boring compared to other animals”

I used multiple types of tapes, longest lasting and most comfortable was some long tape from SQlabs.

Right now I am looking at Grepp cloth tapes, they are bit more pricey but should last pretty much forever, you just have to wash them sometimes.

Just a tip for using WD-40 on bikes for regular maintenance it is good to know what for it was developed - protective oil coating for steel/stainless steel plates.

So it can be used to give nice shine to the frame paint after cleaning or it is excellent for coating cassette and chain before longer storage (it leaves the oil coat and protect it from rust).

The side effect of needing to cover every craves of the surface means that it is penetrating quite deep so people started using it everywhere - stuck bolts, hard to oil parts…

As others said it isn’t the best or even good product for what you want to use it for.

That said there are options for touring, for example last year I started my tour with waxed chain. It isn’t the best solution either, it doesn’t like wet conditions without bit more maintenance than oil (if you don’t do it it starts to rust).

I switched to oil and bit more cleaning after a while, but because I use spirit stove I had already some alcohol with me so in the end it was quite a breeze to deal with it. Also when you use drip on oil and apply it correctly (just enough on rollers and wipe the excess) it last quite a bit longer and doesn’t muck that much.

For one product I would take something for wet conditions in drip on package. I have something from motorex.

But if the condition of the trip is right the wax is better option.

Don’t let reality ruin a good joke ;-)

I am looking for some trips in Asia. But the plain tickets are pricy so it will have to wait until I have a good plan and probably some friend to do it with me.

For now I stick to countries where I don’t have to deal with stuff like visa… So EU and European economic area.

So I am interested in your trip as well.