/lounge/ - sushi social

>>20327
Very noice

>>21653
I didn't add yeast. The recipie doesn't call for it. Just raisins and honey.

Ginger beer was the best so far for the Lauders. As long as you don't overdo it with the pour it's actually better than the ginger beer on its own. Success!

Did make that "sazerac" with pastis, brandy and bäska droppar. Not horrible. Not good.
Mixing some bäska droppar into the Lauders makes it tastes like some kind of paint remover. An interesting experience.
Supposedly bäska droppar is the same type of liquor as Jeppsons Malört, but more intense, maybe not the best substitute for cocktail bitters.

Had an idea to make a poor mans negroni with the Rosita, since it already tastes like wine and Campari, just add some gin. Picked up some of the cheapest available, first time I buy liquor in a plastic bottle. Surprisingly decent stuff. Kind of works, I think? Never had an actual negroni except for a non-alcoholic one from a can.

Found pic related while on the Rosita bottle search earlier. Either a funny coincidence or the one in charge to name the product really hates Rosita. Both are made in the same country. Literal drain pour.

>>21654
Is it even wine if it's not fermented? I remember something about grapes having yeast on their skin, allowing natural fermentation without adding any. Maybe it's supposed to work with natural yeast, if it's still viable after the raisinification?
Seems to be lots of raisin wine video recipes on youtube if the book is a bit too vague and you wanna have another go.

Made some orgeat, for the purpose of making mauresques. Just the simplest possible, equal parts unsweetened almond milk and sugar heated until dissolved. Never had orgeat before so I have no idea if it tastes like it should, but it is tasty.

A mauresque really is a step up from plain pastis and water, adds some body and depth of flavour. Hopefully I can get ahold of some orange blossom water and almond extract to make a fancier orgeat next batch.

Finally got to cooking with that brandy as well. Fried some mushrooms and onions, deglazed with it, added cream and reduced a bit. Ate with some pasta. Actually the best mushroom dish I've ever had. Really happy that I took the gamble on an unfamiliar bottle, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to eat something so delicious.

Was lucky! My usual store had orange blossom water.
Tbh orgeat isn't really better with it included, just different. Does okay in a mauresque but also makes it so you don't really want to have more than one. Something you'd have to be in the mood for, would probably prefer the plain version most of the time. Might be a better idea to mix in when you're making the drink rather than having it in the orgeat itself.

Actually really tasty to mix in just a lil bit in orange juice though. Might make for an interesting screwdriver variation.

Also have a lil something in the works.

So uh, I tried lotsa different booze & mixer combos, 29 according to my notes. For science. First time I've had so many different kinds of spirits at once, had to seize the opportunity.

Booze: Light rum, pastis, akvavit, gin, (bad blended) whiskey for some.
Then for mixers: lemon soda, ginger beer, cola, Dr Pepper, sparkling lemonade (one tangerine, one blood orange)

Both blood orange lemonade and Dr Pepper made for bad mixers, only worked with the pastis. Which actually was the only booze that worked with every option, such a strong flavour that it overpowers everything though. Best mixer for the pastis was probably the lemon soda.

Best option for the ginger beer was actually the gin, somehow made the ginger even more gingery and complex. Might be even better with both whiskey and gin, add some barrel notes in there. Only the akvavit didn't fit very well, still not bad at all though. The light rum gets a bit lost in it, needs a dark one with more oomph I guess.
The tangerine lemonade worked with everything, versatile mixer. Best with gin IIRC.
Best booze for the cola was actually the akvavit, surprisingly. Shared second place for the rum and whiskey. Not good with gin, tastes like floor cleaner.
Lemon soda also worked with everything. Best option of mixer for the rum, really highlighting the best parts without getting in the way.

Favourite combo of them all was actually akvavit and lemon soda, just really pleasant and refreshing.

>>21869
nope, hope people who were fine with general state of discussion on 4chan are not coming here

>>21871
very much agreed meow

I miss the Mokou poster

>>21896
you could become that

>>21896
I'll post cute mokous in his honor

>>18711
Sir Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye. Epic Rap Battles of History

>>4917
>what is even happening?
The divisor is on the left, the dividend on the right and the quotient above everything. You're probally just like me who is used to see it sideways like this.

There are 18 groups in the periodic table
There are 18 infinite families of finite simple groups
Coincidence? Most probably, but it's a very intriguing coincidence

>>21899
I don't know what any of this means

>>21900
Groups are mathematical objects that encode and describe the concept of symmetry in a more general and abstract sense where we understand "symmetry" to mean "invariant under transformation", like when we say that polygons are symmetric it is because they can be rotated and reflected in ways that don't change their appearance. To be more precise a group consists of all transformations that preserve some property of an object/space/whatever the transformation acts on. ( To be even more precise, a group is a set G equipped with an associative binary operation satisfying two properties. The first property is that there exists an element called the identity in G such that the identity composed with any other element x in G is x. The second property is that for any element x in G there exists an element y in G such that x compose y and y compose x is the identity. The equivalence of this definition and the concept of symmetry can be derived from cayley's theorem and the concept of group action. )
A very important result in group theory is the jordan holder theorem, which in an indirect way, states that all FINITE (the condition of it being finite is important) groups can be decomposed into other smaller and simpler finite groups and the groups that can not be decomposed any further are called the finite simple groups.
All finite groups can be constructed by re-combining or "binding" these finite simple groups together analogous to how compounds and molecules can be constructed by binding together atoms. These finite simple groups can be very neatly classified into 18 families with 26 special groups, called the sporadic groups, left out of the 18 families because they don't fit.
My post and image is simply pointing out the coincidental similarity between finite simple groups and the periodic table of elements.

>>21693
king -> ingot

>>21793
ingot ->
gothic

>>21847
ichor

>>21880
ichor ->horses

>>21884
horses -> cestus

I’ve been learning more about Tsetse flies. These are nasty little parasites that are known for their aggression and painful bite. They are infamous for carrying parasitic trypanosomes which cause African sleeping sickness. These get transferred over through fly bites invade the central nervous system.100% fatal if not treated. Tsetse isn’t one species but an entire family. Despite the bad reputation they probably play an important role in the local ecology.

cute isopod I found with pretty colors and pattern :>
I think it's Philoscia Muscorum but they're usually gray or yellowish, this guy was red!

>>21630
Oh I've heard the name before, that's horrifying >_<
parasites are kinda scary but halteres are really cool so I appreciate flies

I'm excited for spring to come so I can look for Monarch caterpillars again

>>21885
How do they taste?

>>21784
Love can be plugged into a mathematical formula.

>>21785
>Love can be plugged into a mathematical formula.
it's one of those weird self feeding ones where the result is chaotic

Where do I get started with Marx?

i always think that in order to be a good leader you should be another one of the group who understands the people, the culture and the world they have

>>21755
just curious
can you give at least two real life examples of exactly this happening in the same order of causes?

I normally just bottle myself up until I have a vacation to release it all.

>>12433
this actually sounds quite comfy. I will start trying this once the weather cools down.

Washing the dishes calms my mind, especially when I do it late in the evening and try to not make too much noise.

>>7434
Pressurised Water Washing

Kafe!

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