Got to play it for a bit, got my PPL in career mode and did one of the first flight missions. It was fun! Wanted to do a free flight in a helicopter and it crashed to desktop and now I’m back in the queue. Over all, as someone that mainly flies in DCS, I like it. Msfs20 got boring for me fairly quickly but with the missions and progression I like ‘24 so far, feel like it’s just the thing I’ll crave when I want a relaxed experience flying. Just wish the servers were less crappy right now lol

Oh I’m aware, I’ve been brewing beer for 8 years or so, the pasteurization is just something I wanna try for fun lol

It depends! If your yeast is at its max alcohol tolerance you should be able to just use sugar without anything. If it’s not, just like a beer it will referment. As someone that hasn’t done many wines (unless I turn them into brandy Ala half my posts on this community), you can use different stabilizing chemicals before back sweetening (they’ll also work on beer too). Personally I’ve wanted to try very low temp pasteurization on beers or wines I make for my significant other to try back sweetening, any method should work! (Though personally I tend to kill off my yeast with high abvs since I primarily distill these days)

Good question! Those are actually raisins. I’ve done some more reading and see they don’t add a lot of nutrients so I was going to leave them out, but I did have a fair bit left over so figured I’d toss them in

Got it, that makes sense here’s to hoping it turns out well! And ooh, that sounds like a fantastic time, enjoy your trip through Europe :)

Oooh that sounds like it’ll be a blast! A jam moonshine sounds like it would be interesting, and the pickled one sounds just weird enough that I’ll have to add it to my list. Did you get anything in particular that you’re most excited to try?

It turned out not too bad off the still! Early hearts and heads had a nice blue razz flavor, tail ends tasted just like a sugar wash. I’m curious to see how the flavors change once I cover it in cloth and let it air out for 24 hours then blend and proof it down but so far, much better than some of my past endeavors lol

After KSP2 I promised myself I would never do Early Access or preorder again. However, I made an exception for this. Love the stalker series and I’ve both preordered it and took the entire week off of work. You can say I’m definitely hyped lol

This might be the single most hilarious “you’d be fucked” statement I ever heard and I’m definitely stealing it for future use lmao

Saw the news on their YouTube. Looked it up thinking it was satire and sure as shit it’s not. Probably the fastest I’ve ever purchased merch ever. Gonna love wearing my onion shirt, always loved them but this was the point I needed to send them some money because this is hilarious.

Just signed up for proton VPN as well, my PC is on 24/7 so I’ll have it running non stop. Thanks for sharing this! Glad I can help the cause out.

This is up my alley but damn I don’t wanna do a vpn and have no idea how the US feds would feel about doing this, since technically participating in ddos is illegal. Should I bite the bullet and just get a vpn? Installed the program but don’t have it running yet.

Hell yeah! Sounds fantastic and like it’ll be a great beer to have on tap

That’s looking like a fantastic brew! Also complete side note your grain mill is absolutely adorable, the colors remind me of a watermelon lol

That sounds absolutely delicious! Never hurts to switch things up lol

Oooh whatcha making? And ahh yep, any time my friends ask about getting into home brewing I warn them they won’t have a brewing hobby, they’ll have a cleaning hobby that happens to give you beer as a bonus

Oh for sure, but where’s the fun in brewing if you’re not suffering at least a little bit lol

One way to find out, right? Thanks for the info though! Think I’ll play it by ear or maybe do the wood chips like someone else mentioned, at least until I get enough space for a nice wood barrel room lol

I’ll have to give it a shot, though, admittedly I love the idea of a barrel, just makes it seem fancy lol

I haven’t done wood aging yet, but it’s been something on the back of my mind for a while now. I’d love to get a 5 gallon wood barrel to properly age beer for a year or so, since I love barrel aged stouts. I also saw a few research papers on using ultrasonic cleaners to rapidly “age” spirits and it’s something I’m trying to justify giving a shot, albeit I don’t have a lot of space for a new gadget so that’s been the limiting factor of me not trying it yet lol