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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The best beers in the usa (said microbreweries) are mediocre at best compared to the low standard European ones. Sorry to say this, but there are very, very few acceptable beers in usa. Mexicans and Canadian are better.

    No hate, but they all lack a flavourful taste.

    German, belgium and czech beers are great, Irish stouts are wonderful, and so on. You can grab a random (best: local) beer and it will be a good one.

    You have to really look out for an acceptable one in usa. If you are lucky, a microbrewery in your area will produce a good one, but you have to have a good portion of luck here. Most of those good ones are brewed by an „imported“ german brewer who got a formal education on this. You can actually study this in the city nearby me and some students think of opening a brewery in the usa. So naturally i got in touch with some of them. One factor is the hops you can get in the us. The quality and taste is very different to the one we produce. You almost cannot reproduce the conditions you have here in the holledau. Even if you get very good hops the malting and the grain is different (mexicans use corn, which actually tastes very good). Barley doesn’t equal barley, so you have the differences here.

    Long story short: the ingrediens are different due to locally available products, the methods are slightly different, so you have a different product. Unfortunately the circumstances in the us are what they are, so you need very experienced personell to produce a good beer.






  • How to adult.

    Basically how to choose your internet and phone provider, compare the contracts etc. Same with power supplier. How to choose from the different suppliers and the impact of base price with the price per unit (and when it makes sense to choose a higher line price when the power price per unit is cheaper).

    Insurance. Regulations for the driving license (like if you study and still are registered at home, you might have a hard time to make your license at your study place).

    And all nitty picky things you have to remember when you grow up and rent your own place.

    As well as learning and working contracts. Like how many vacation days are mandatory and what is usual.

    Edit: If and how you do taxes. When they are mandatory and when they are optional.

    Well, i guess you get the point. All those nasty responsibilities nobody explains you before being confronted with.



  • It really took me a while to experience the perfect newspaper for me. It comes daily with actual news and background stories as well as investigative reports from time to time. It is public owned, so if you have shares you actually have a say what they report.

    It is a very left daily newspaper, which suits me well. Taz, if you ever heard of it.

    Though, daily news aren’t too good for your mental health, especially bad ones. So, who is deciding that you „have to keep up“? I think no one expect yourself. So if you decide to just not read for a week or even a month, it is just on you. You can catch up by reading some headlines and decide, what catches your interest later on.