u/ProfessorAllenRitard

You can look at my past comment and post history and know I support Israel as an American.

That said, I don't understand the Israeli settler issue that seems to generate quite a bit of strife and vitriol. It also provides ammunition for people claiming Israel is invading neighboring land such as Gaza and Lebanon for land grabs.

What is the common Israeli perspective on this issue in general? What are the settlers doing, why are they doing it, and how is it viewed in Israel?

Thanks. 🇺🇲🇮🇱🍻

I really started this journey as an experiment after fermenting pickles ​and milk into yogurt for the first time. I'll cut to the chase.

1.) You can brew in a 64oz bottle with a knife slit in the lid ​as an air lock. You don't need a balloon air seal, you don't need an airlock, and ​you don't need saran ​wrap. You need a small hole that will allow air to escape during fermentation​. A very small cut in the plastic lid ​will do. Or just twist the seal gently so air just barely escapes and nothing can enter.

2.) Yeast matters. If you want a surefire banger, i​t's ec1118 right from Amazon. I tried DADY distillers yeast which stalled, and Fleischmans ​which gave me an unfinished product. Get a proper wine or champagne yeast.

Disclaimer: I'm ​still gonna mess with DADY.​ It's not looking good though. It didn't ferment well, but it might be a bad batch.

3.) Cranberry and ​Lemonade based products do not ferment. They stall right out of the gate. Avoid. Especially from Amazon. There is too much acidity in some products.

4.) Grape Juice ferments 100%. The Amazon basics variety is a surefire masterpiece.

5.) Kilju, or sugar wins, is tough to homebrew without any extra additives. The yeast ​gets no nutrients so it's prone to stalls. Simply combining water, sugar, and yeast is not adequate.

6.) 100% my biggest finding thus far is fermaid nutrient. I use fermaid K but I hear fermaid O works great as well. I'm not that technical so I don't know the difference.

I tried to be cheap and boil bread yeast as nutrient but it didn't work. Fermaid K is like an injection of pure testosterone meth into my hooch. Boiled bread yeast is bullshit.

My perfect brew for a newb?

1. 64 fl oz Amazon Basics Grape Juice. Slit the top and pour off 4 fl oz.

2.) Add 1 cup granulated white sugar.

3. ) Add 1/4 tsp fermaid k.

4. ) Mix sugar, grape juice, fermaid ​together for 1 minute to aerate.

5.) Then add 1/4 tsp ec1118 yeast activated for 10 minutes with a few grains of sugar and warm water.

Mix everything gently for 20 seconds.

6.) Place in a cabinet or dark space.

6.) At day 4 add another 1/4 tsp fermaid k. Shake gently for 20s.

7. ) Keep at approximately 75F for 14 days. Give or take the temperature you'd be comfortable in a tshirt. No sunlight.

If you follow these steps, you have created completely acceptable merlot tasting table wine for ungodly cheap.

That's it. Cheaper than dirt.

If I'm wrong someone correct. 🤟

I recently saw a video of a captured detainee crucified to a wall. Pretty sure it was ASE.

What's your best story of brutal sacrifice or humiliation?

About a month ago I was in Montana visiting friends and ate some raw bear meat that had been frozen since winter. We were drinking and talking about crazy stuff we had eaten and I brought up eating raw venison. My buddy suggested i eat raw black bear.

I ate probably a hamburger patty worth. Since Monday I've had horrible cramps, diarrhea, and nausea. I've also been having some pains in my chest although I don't know if they're related or just anxiety.

Could this be a tapeworm from the meat?

So I started 3 gallons on 6/16 using cranberry juice and lemonade from Amazon. I selected both after making sure they didn't have any listed preservatives. They came in 64 oz bottles.

I added 1.5 cups of sugar to each, a reasonable amount of boiled bread yeast for nutrient, and 1/2 tsp DADY distillers yeast. I aerated prior to adding yeast and everything was room temp. It's about 75 degrees in my apartment and there was no sunlight exposure.

It's now July 6th and virtually nothing is fizzing. I tested the yeast with sugar water and it moderately fizzed after 20 minutes.

I tasted two different bottles and it's still sweet as hell. Like sugar water with only mild alcohol mouth feel.

All I can think is the yeast is bad or going bad, although I just got it. I ordered some Champaign yeast (EC-118?) - the one often talked about here - and it arrives tomorrow. I'm planning on just adding some of that to each bottle.

I also started Kilju yesterday with the same yeast too see if it was a ph issue. Zero fizz as of today.

As I write this the more I think bad yeast. Thoughts?

Hello all. I have a quest 3 running on a 3070ti and Ryzen 5800. I have windows 10. I also use steam link to connect.

I can play virtually any game on high settings without issue. My Issue is that I'm currently unable to view the majority of media on Heresphere. It either will not play and offers an error that I need to update Media Foundation, or it lags horribly. It will play certain files without lag using Directshow, but lags even with this option.

The interesting thing is using default settings SkyBox runs every single media file perfect with zero stuttering​ or error messages. NNothing ​phases it. Perfect video every time.

Things I've tried this far:

1.) I've installed and reinstalled k-lite codec pack.

2.) I've updated my nvidea divers to current build.

3.) I've restarted the computer.

4.) I've played around with codec tweak tool but don't really know what I'm looking for.

It's like the codecs aren't being applied to Heresphere, but are being applied to other programs such as Skybox. Why would this be? There's no way it's a hardware issue as I can play everything just fine on a different app.

DeoVR has the same problem, but I don't care as much because I didn't pay for a copy.

u/Heresphere

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Storage 932 GB SSD Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD ZP1000GM30002

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (8 GB)

Device ID DE84A902-4903-4CD6-928A-882E4B5F459E

Product ID 00326-10000-00000-AA905

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

First ever batch of pineapple tepache in a 64 oz jar. Its bubbling like crazy after 36 hours but I've read tepache is only 2-3 ABV without going higher or it turns to vinegar.

My question is what would happen if I added an additional 400g of sugar and some wine yeast? Would it turn to pineapple wine or just accelerate the vinegar process?

New at this so thanks in advance.