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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hope they put them in more temperate zones as global warming is causing so much fluctuation.

Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also, Asian markets here do carry dried yeast balls for making a drink called Jiu. It’s called nigorizake in Japan and is a sweet rice wine. It’s a fast ferment at room temps using the yeast ball as your starter which has both A. oryzae and S. cervisciae in it. Jiu is very tropical for a house wine.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes. Traditional sake making is a multi step process alternating between koji rice feedings and yeast feedings. Warm it up for kome koji rice for a few days, then feed with yeast and chill back down to lager temps.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thank you. Your procedures for trapping yeasts is similar to mine. I use homemade sanitized jelly jars with agar plates up in fruit tree canopies for an overnight exposure. That, or use a still air box to roll fruit skins (plum, persimmon, citrus, pine needles, etc.) or material on the jar plates.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My bees love the nettle during dearth months.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sake uses kome koji (Aspergillus oryzae) to break down long chain carbs in rice into short chain carbs for yeasts to eat. Primary ferment is a multi step process of warming to feed with koji rice and cooling to lager temps to feed yeast.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve sourced A. oryzae from koji rice to make homemade sake, alternating between Aspergillus and Servomyces cervisciae var. bayanus during primary at lager temps. It turned out well. Mineral water and cantaloupe flavors with a pale straw yellow color using Calirose sushi rice. Following.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@seamus.bsky.social any primers or tips for catching wild yeasts? Love to compare techniques. Living vicariously through your travels.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Aliens? Holy shit, the Epstein evidence must be out of this world

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Trump comes down with a terrible chronic case of Epstein-itis.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

RIP John Michael Osbourne. Give my love to Randy Rhodes.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

They’re eating the lists. They’re eating the files.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Not all superheroes wear capes.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When you only love the 2nd amendment and consider the rest of the document garbage.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Finda da Pope inna da pizza. Some are easy, while others are hard.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Steve Malkmus is a great songwriter. Face The Truth is often in rotation around these parts.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Apparently, ChatGPT is sick of our jokes.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Scrotum cod? Fried codpiece? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Generational slang. Frfr. No cap.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Retromeme circa 1555. Pfso phrefsh.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Need a few more of these on DC buildings.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

She’d had a liver transplant which often causes diabetes. She could’ve been undiagnosed as well. Diabetes is just one complication of a liver transplant so I wouldn’t necessarily panic. I’m type 2 btw.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Planktons prices are up at the chum bucket.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Nummy. #1 reason to get rid of plastic utensils and cutting boards.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Why did he back down? They threatened to call in our national debt by dumping treasury bonds.

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Optimistic Johnny @opjohn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My cats preserve and defend my sanity.

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