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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Absolutely! According to my notes:

    Mashing with 19 L water, for 60 minutes, strike temp 71 °C, manual turning every 15 minutes:

    3500 g Simpsons Maris Otter Pale Ale

    2000 g Viking Malt Munich Light

    500 g Simpsons Premium English Caramalt

    1 L additional water at 68 °C for rinsing the malt bag, i.e. having the malt bag in a stainless steel bucket with holes in the bottom, pouring on the water and letting it run through.

    Infusion with 3 L boiled water, for 70+ minutes:

    4 Large lemons sliced thin

    1 Large ginger root sliced thin (unfortunately I don’t have the weight for this… palm sized :)

    45 g Saaz hops

    45 g Amarillo hops

    I boil the water, take it off the hob, add infusables in the kettle in a filter bag and let it sit with a lid on top.

    Boiling the wort for 50 minutes and adding hops:

    60 g 45 min Challenger

    30 g 45 min Saaz

    The 3 L infusion is added to the boil when there’s 10 minutes of boil left and flame turned to max to bring it all back to boil for the remaining few minutes.

    Yeast starter with 1 L water, 1 dL dark syrup and a pinch of yeast nutrient. Yeast used was the traditional Sahti style fresh yeast. I just can’t let it go :)







  • Re Microsoft in general. I had to install Powershell on Linux recently to get a work related task done. It was packaged on the Arch User Repository, so easily done.

    Got the task done and went to uninstall Powershell and realised there that the installed size was 186 MB. Checked the installed size of Linux-zen kernel and modules: 143 MB. So this tiny MS command-line utility was heftier than the kernel and drivers for all supported hardware. How do they even manage that?


  • I’ve had to learn heavy duty bashing for work, and happily did take the plunge. However, they also had me learn PHP and I’ll drop this as a hook and line for OP: you can do shell-script duties with PHP also, and once you hit your head on sed enough times, I hope you remember me telling this. All that string manipulation is much nicer with PHP functions, and for running shell commands there is shell_exec(). :)