I find the comments here in the fediverse are of a higher overall quality, like Reddit once was over a decade ago.

Emissions laws there mean they can’t burn 35 million in fake bills. They’ll have to shred it.

Sounds like a good time to me

Belgian yeast likes to get a bit hot, by the way (and the beer tastes best when fermented on the warmer side of the yeast’s preferred range). That might be a decent choice for a test batch once you get an insulated space setup.

I can respect working with no power. I did that for a while too. Everything I mentioned is pretty power efficient though.

If you want no electronics in the mix at all, insulation is about your only option. Since fermentation is an exothermic process, you’ll also want to make sure you can keep it from getting too hot. Your beer will taste a lot worse from the yeast getting too hot than it will from the yeast being too cool.

You can buy inexpensive temperature controllers, and if you can do simple wiring, it’s not too hard to add a power outlet (and an enclosure). From there a fountain pump some tubing, a cooler full of water and either a heat source or a cold source can serve as a simple way to regulate your fermentor’s temperature.

The heat source could be something like an aquarium heater or a sous vide heater and will sit in the cooler (always on, not run to the temperature controller). You’ll tape the temperature controller’s sensor against the outer wall of your fermentor (with some insulation taped over it. A paper towel folded a few times works fine), put the fountain pump in the bucket of water with the fermentor, and run the tubing into the cooler. The output of the tubing should be run back into the bucket.

When the fermentor gets too cool, the temperature controller will kick the fountain pump on which will take the water from the bucket and run it through the hot water in the cooler and back into the bucket. This will slowly raise the temperature inside the fermentor - and slow is what you want with yeast.

You can replace the heater with ice or frozen water bottles if you need it to cool your beer in the warmer months. I did this for a while before moving to using a chest freezer and reptile terrarium hear mats regulated by the same temperature controllers.

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Have his years of wild hedonism finally caught up with him!?

It should also be noted that the documentary Independence Day showed us that all our satellites will be used against us when the aliens invade.

Only in Bavaria. I brewed beer for many years and am very familiar with the law which hit 500 years old in 2016.

That only applies to beer breweries in Bavaria. Not all of Germany is subject to that law.

Big culture in this comment chain

Are those the frozen Rocky Mountain oysters on a stick?

Voyager is what I use now. I tried several others first.

Well it’s high time Wendy’s switched to a Linux distro!

I could’ve agree more. I really went into this new season with optimism, but I’m pretty meh on it overall.

No, actually I didn’t make that connection. All the same, that doesn’t sever the link to Parasites Lost.

That is a valuable point though, and I thank you for bringing it up.

I’ve refrained from commenting much on previous episodes of the new season, but I have to say this one disappointed me the most. Parasites Lost was my favorite episode of the original run, and in that episode at the end the parasites warn it will be easy for them to return.

So they name this episode Parasites Regained. Naturally my expectations are that Fry regains the worms. Instead of doing that, they just used the title as a callback joke but it’s mostly unrelated to the plot. It’s not even really about the effects from the same parasites, never mind it being about the same character.

As others have commented here, the jokes are stale and slow to fire. I don’t think the writing has been strong enough to have resurrected the show again.

At best I’ve chuckled at this season. The original run - and even most of the Comedy Central episodes - were much funnier than this.

Maybe there will be some better episodes ahead, but I really don’t see Futurama getting another season based on the strength of this one.

I’m 40% right!

That’s because the DVD collections didn’t agree with the aired order either.