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My experience reading King is The Stand, It, and the audiobooks of the Dark Tower series. It was decent, if really sketchy at points (gratuitous pre-teen sex, f'rinstance). The Stand and the Dark Tower series didn't grab me. I still want to give The Shining a try, but I suspect that the...

That's how the news media responds to everything though, to be fair. Sells more adspace. Hope that's all there is to the predictions that this virus isn't going away (globally) any time soon...

Depends what you've heard. Most of Wuhan is more-or-less sequestered within their communities right now, with little to no permission to leave the compound. Food and goods are delivered in, often through groups organized by community members or the community management office (the...

Apocalypse and Rapture themes have gone through my mind. The fact that there's an HBO show called The Leftovers that is about the Rapture (AFAIK) seems like fertile ground since this is a leftovers brew, but I'm not sure if I can make anything of it since I haven't seen the show.

My family and I are quarantined in Wuhan and have been for about 40 days now. You'd think I'd have nothing but time, but with a three year-old son and a one year-old daughter, that's just not the case. However, I finally got around to brewing a beer. It's a bit of a leftovers brew - I've got...

Yeah, we're not at the epicenter as Wuhan goes, but when our city is the origin and accounts for more than half of cases worldwide, we're right in the thick of it. Stuck indoors 24/7 with my wife, three year-old son, and one year-old daughter. We've got lots of food and a bunch of homebrew (none...

Must be why I'm still safe, though some of my neighbors are apparently claimants to some throne or another...

Welcome from Wuhan!

I'm currently under lockdown with the rest of the city of Wuhan, and I figure it's time to finally brew another beer after five or six months without brewing (kids and 60+ hour weeks). I'm going to go with a pretty basic APA (with S33 since that's all I have aside from bread yeast and a sketchy...

https://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything/dp/0143120530 Really interesting book on memory competitions and memory palaces. I was introduced to the concept by The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence, but while the memory palace concept and the...

After skimming this thread: Your OG wasn't 1.090. Since that's what you measured before topping off with 9L water, the OG is probably closer to 1.060. We'd have to know more details to give exact values, but don't expect a 10% ABV beer like most of the people posting here seem to assume...

I did a 5 lb corned beef in a gallon of brine a few weeks ago - a gallon was the suggested volume from pretty much every recipe I saw - and it was a big hit. I'm going to brine two 5.5 lb cuts this week. It would be easy to immerse them both in a single gallon of brine since I brine in a big...

The kimchi soak and rinse method made a great sauerkraut. I'll add some tasty whole spices next time, but it's a solid technique.

Online, yeah. Brick and mortar? Not really. There may be an isolated few, but the only one I know of is a wealthy expat's basement in a gated community in Shanghai - if it still exists (it's been six years since I was there). My recent activity on the forum here has been about as scarce as my...

Spec. B and Caramunich steeped should add some gravity (since they're already converted so they don't need to be mashed) but they won't be very fermentable, so they'll likely increase the FG. Extract is notorious for finishing a bit high compared to most all-grain brews. How much of a "shot" of...

I don't know if there's anyone on this site I'd ask before you if I were trying to refine my process to make the absolute best beer possible. But triage, my friend. When the OP is pouring unmilled malt in boiled water, adding hops, and then tossing the whole thing in a bucket (assuming it's not...

The reason many people here consider Heineken and the like to be crappy beer is because we have access to endless varieties of beer. Heineken is very low in flavor compared to many of the beers we can buy or make. There's nothing wrong with a beer like that stylistically, but it's not very...

Aside from quads, big sours, big brett beers, and other big versions of yeast-driven styles (hello extra-imperial saisons and weizens, f'rinstance), yeast can still affect other things in a beer that big, such as FG (either by apparent attenuation characteristics or maxing out alcohol...

I tossed a few blow-off tubes a few months ago for that exact reason. They sat in starsan for a few months and cracked like a cheap plastic toy that's been sitting in the sun all summer.

I've tried to make Sauerkraut a dozen or so times in the past, and while I've generally made something edible - particularly if fried in bacon fat - it's never been all that good. If I recall, I've basically added non-iodized salt (I think 1.6% of the weight of the cabbage? I don't recall the...