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Erwin

@erwinh.bsky.social

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👓 Nerds out hard on many topics! 🍻 beer, 🍶 sake, 🥃 spirits; drinking & home-brew 🎮 (retro) games, 🔊 music, 🎬 movies, 📖 reading 🚲 biking & 🥾 hiking holidays 💼 HR professional Talent & Performance 𖡡 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 8d

Doei!

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 8d

The Xbox game pass hike was the last drop after feeling really uneasy with Microsoft for a while. I'm out!

Not sure where to go for playing games on my sofa. I wish Steam would launch an updated Steam Machine.

Does anyone want to buy a series X?

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 13d

Saison took off like a rocket and is going brrr!

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 13d

Been a busy day!

Picked the other hop plant and brewed a beer. As is almost tradition I brew a big Saison with fresh hops.

It has a 80/20 pilsner and spelt malt base, 600 grams of green hops (Centennial), and will end up around 8.5 percent ABV.

Tomorrow I will brew a kveik-based beer.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah.. if your hands are not red and itchy have you even picked hops? Haha

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 14d

The yield for 1 plant.

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 14d

Picking my hops!

It has not been an amazing year for hops but I always look forward to this annual event.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 15d

Watched the first episode yesterday and my wife also said it was very similar to Peaky Blinders (which I didn't see). It has the same writer / creator

So far I like the idea of the show more than the actual final product. I will give it a few more episodes. the

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 15d

't Kelkje is really nice!

I did not know they served this bottle - my wife loves it.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 16d

I vote to name these 'Figgle'

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 20d

Served some of my homebrew Doburoku at Sake Sip festival yesterday!

People seemed really curious about this weird brew and I got through the 4.5 liter that I brought quite rapidly.

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 21d

't nieuwe diep is bustling! Found a seat under the trees.

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 21d

Proost!

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 22d

Splitting a bag of the rice (the 70% polished one) into two tuns so that my fellow homebrewers can more easily split it.

The rice looks beautiful!

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 22d

I went for a run after a few weeks break because of runner's knee.

Since the pain kept returning - even after some time of rest - I got some new shoes. The old ones (Brooks Adrenaline GTS) had a really insane heel drop. The new ones (Saucony Guide) seem much better in this aspect.

Fingers crossed!

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 22d

Filled my Doburoku (unpressed sake with the rice still in it - often seen as homebrew sake)

It's tart and super rice-y but not overly sweet. Hint of cloves and pear (used a white wine yeast). It's a chunky boi though.. very high rice to liquid ratio; more than commercial examples I've had.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 23d

I try to set my batch size to 10kg of overall rice, 125% water ratio.

I normally make koji for a whole batch (2.1 kg) and use a kobo jikomi method (3 step additions). The only big steaming session is the last addition step which is best done in 2 batches.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 23d

(still a lot of steaming haha)

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 23d

I'm serving a bit as a distribution hub.

I'll keep two bags (60kg), one 70% and one 50% polished. The other bags will go to other homebrewers. I'm really happy to see the Dutch homebrew scene develop.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 23d

Guess who got 180 kilograms of polished rice in his hallway?

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 25d

Smooth is definitely the one I find most difficult to decode.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 29d

In the Netherlands they released the boxes earlier this week. In our homebrew whatsapp group people have been posting which Lidl stores have them and which do not; it has become an annual event almost.

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Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 29d

I just cancelled my Spotify subscription after 15 years.

I had already switched to Tidal for quite a while but my parents on the family subscription took some easing into the idea of switching to another music subscription.

Happy to finally to turn my back on them.

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 29d

Bought the last two packs at Lidl Insulindeweg, Amsterdam on my way home from work.

Erwin @erwinh.bsky.social · 29d

I know that Walhalla had some beers contract brewed at P&K and they suffer from the same "je ne sais quoi".

Their Loki was quite good when I had it during their soft opening evening; I think that was contract brewed at Frontaal.