Monday, April 04, 2005. It’s time to setup the brew! I’m somehow skeptical if everything works out as expected. One can make so many mistakes and Murphy’s Law knows that I will. But hey, we should start our endeavor with the required optimism. The mixture will turn into tasty beer, or – yet another soft drink… I expect to get a kind of sweet and amber beer, called “Landbier”. I used half of the concentrate to produce about 10 liters. This is what I’ve done so far:

• Pic01: The tools and ingredients: concentrate + yeast, bucket, measuring jug, manual
• Pic02: Close-up Bier-Dose – the product is called BIER KWIK
• Pic03: Around 800g sugar will be transformed into alcohol and carbonic acid

• Pic04: The tin with the concentrate is heated in order to make it liquid
• Pic05: Danish sugar, in the background the tin in the pot
• Pic06: The first view of the concentrate, after opening the tin

• Pic07: Self-portrait, after putting the concentrate into the bucket
• Pic08: Steam arises, after adding 2 liters of boiling water – Stir, baby, stir!
• Pic09: Now it’s time to add and stir 7 liters of cold water

• Pic10: 10 liters base material
• Pic11: The yeast, used to start the fermentation process
• Pic12: The mixture after adding the yeast

• Pic13: Everything done so far – now it’s time to wait
• Pic14: The depository for the swill
• Pic15: Stylish Systembolaget cover

Nun dann: Gut Ding will Weile haben…

There are three projects I would like to introduce…

First of all and for the sake of completeness, I want to mention Fabio’s Photoblog. He’s really active and uploaded a lot of pictures and added some notes. Go ahead, Fabio! It’s nice to see that Marta is not the only Brazilian who spends some time here in Umea… BTW: Thanks to Rolf for tracking this site.

Blogs are used more and more beyond the private scope. The departments of informatics, applied physics and electronics at Umea University started a blog to recruit new students. It’s called VadSkaDuBli (What will you become?) and will be run until the 15th of April, the deadline for applications for the next semester.
The entries are written (in Swedish) by regular students who tell about their student lives. I think it’s an interesting experiment, but the results are pretty hard to measure.
At least it draws some attention: I first read about VadSkaDuBli in Västerbottens-Kuriren, later on I discovered the official press release of the university. The Blog Herald and The Local also refer to the project.

The last link is primarily for German-speakers: Steffanie is a Swedish journalist living in Stockholm. She puts a lot of effort into learning German and runs her German weblog “Deutsch für Anfänger – Formulierungen in eine Fremdsprache”. She writes about Sweden + Stockholm, the German language, Blogging and more personal stuff. She also offers a German podcast. It’s really cute to read + listen to her postings. You can fully understand her, but it’s so nice to notice her marginal grammatical mistakes.
I know Steffanie’s site for a couple of months (Martin Röll did a podcast with her after participating in the BlogWalk in Umea last November), but then I lost track of it. Today I retrieved it while surfing the blogosphere. Steffanie also runs a Swedish and an English blog!