I've gotten behind in sharing recent pick ups. I've been doing a lot of Drammers Club online tastings, and I took advantage of their Drinqy discount to pick up a few things.

Tenmile Distillery doesn't have distribution in MA yet, but my friend Melissa Giges (late of Compass Box) is repping for them now, and I was impressed by their tasting, so I had to pick up a couple. They make American Single Malt Whisky, which is a relatively small category.

I picked up Little Rest First Edition, which was one of the samples in our tasting that I quite enjoyed. And, being a rye lover, I had to pick up the Double Matured Rye Cask Finish. This wasn't one of the samples, but I'm looking forward to trying this one. I do hope they get a MA distributor soon.

I also picked up the Knob Creek Bourbon X Rye. Knob Creek is a favorite, and I've really liked other bourbon/rye blends, so I figured I'd give this a shot.

And they just got High West Distillery A Midwinter Night's Dram Act 13 in, and had it on discount, so I snapped that up. I hadn't seen it pop up in MA yet. This continues my run - I have all 14 Acts (including Encore).

I also finally corrected a long time oversight on my part and joined the The Scotch Malt Whisky Society of America. I don't know what took me so long, but they were running a promo where you got membership with the purchase of a bottle. So I picked up "The Wandering" Blended Malt Scotch - which appears to be called "Wandering Alchemy" outside the US.

#Whiskey #Whiskey #AmericanSingleMalt #Bourbon #Rye #Scotch #Tenmile #KnobCreek #HighWest #ScotchMaltWhiskySociety #DrammersClub

My best sourdough ‘bunny’ yet! Multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain, 5% scalded home milled black wheat, 5% home milled scalded rye and 10% home milled scalded Atle wheat, chopped sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour and 65g mixed seeds. 
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #rye

Crumb shot of my multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain, 5% scalded home milled black wheat, 5% home milled scalded rye and 10% home milled scalded Atle wheat, chopped sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour and 65g mixed seeds. 
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #rye

Out of the oven - multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain, 5% scalded home milled black wheat, 5% home milled scalded rye and 10% home milled scalded Atle wheat, chopped sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour and 65g mixed seeds. 
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #rye

Multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 5% scalded home milled black wheat, 5% home milled scalded rye and 10% home milled scalded Atle wheat, chopped sage, 80% very strong white Canadian flour and 65g mixed seeds. 
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian #rye

A toast to the New Year. Two actually. #Rye #GoodRiddance2025 #LifeOfTheParty

Couldn't resist sampling the rye bread. The crumb is in the sweet spot – somewhat open but not holey and leaky.

Nice sour notes with the distinct rye flavour and a hint of caraway. I find it'll develop further as it rests too.

Can't wait to try with some smoked salmon or cured meat.

#rye #sourdough

I wonder if it makes sense to approach job search through hobbies and side activities rather than just by past employment history.

In my free time, I do #microbiology. I have a #biolab in the cellar with petri dishes and microscopes and all. I ferment #olives which grow in my tree and make pickles out of them, I make two kinds of #sourdough bread from a culture I extracted from quince fruit peels from my own tree, one wheat and one #rye.

I do #mycology. I have some 2,000 photos of wild #mushrooms in my Facebook photo albums.

I do a lot of software-defined radio, I have more #antennas than I care to count, and also more #SDR modules than I care to count. I stream radio data directly to my own #ElasticSearch which I can visualize in different ways in Kibana.

I do home automation, and the house has countless sensors and cameras. I use #HomeAssistant for this, with lots of modules I have implemented myself, for example for scraping data from my Huawei solar panels and graphing their historical data.

I have a home #Kubernetes cluster with many nodes and several public-facing services with some 99.9% uptime like a local Mastodon instance and also a #Matrix instance, in addition to lots of local services.

I am a data archivist and I have lots of stuff backed up locally if the internet goes down like it did during the notorious #apagon in Spain.

I play strategy games in Playstation, some of my current favorite games are #Stellaris and #Tropico6. I just like resource optimization over time.

I grow vegetables and some fruit trees. Trying to get really hot chilis growing here as they aren't readily available in stores. I have eaten the One Chip Challenge without even wincing a bit. I am a #ChiliHead.

I administrate all sorts of online communities and web pages. I read a lot of books and whenever I get into a new domain, I tend to read several definitive reference books of the topic from cover to cover. For example I now know more about #cancer biology than I ever thought I would.

I used to take a lot of #Coursera courses, also in non-technical topics such as #virology, #BrainPhysiology, #AnimalBehavior and such.

We have 3 cats, 2 siamese and 1 rescued as a kitten from the neighboring empty plot where he was born.

Ask me anything about these things!

If you need someone like this in your team to build great things, working remotely from Spain, let's chat!

#AI #AGI #OpenToWork #RemoteWorking #FediHire

Coastline near Odiorne Point, Rye NH

#photo #photography #blackandwhite #landscape #ocean #monochrome #monochromemonday #newhampshire #rye

This graffiti covered bunker in on top of a huge earth berm and would have been used to target two pairs of 16 inch guns had German ships approached the coast in WWI or WWII.

#photo #photography #military #history #graffiti #building #bunker #rye #newhampshire #nh #odiornepoint

Believe it or not they were worried about German Battleships approaching the New England coast in WWI so they built a huge earth berm at what is now Odiorne Point State Park with two tunnels under it -- that circle you can see once held a turret with two 16 inch battleship guns

#photo #photography #rye #military #history #statepark #newhampshire #nh #odiornepoint

Advent Calendar Day 9 ...

https://zenmischief.com/2025/12/advent-calendar-9-11/

#advent #photography #rye #zenmischief

Once you head north from Hampton Beach the coastline becomes a lot less busy: here's a rocky coastline near Rye, NH

#photo #photography #landscape #beach #rye #newhampshire #nh #rockybeach #monochrome #monochromemonday

Good evening, #mastoart #mastodon

This is #silentSunday #fotografie #photography

#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #potd #picoftheday #beach #rye #melbourne #naarm #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #australia #scenery #travel

@Roentare

Original

https://Roentare.zenfolio.com/p1013718648/ebbdc643d

Sirha Europain and the new focus in the French bakery and patisserie sector

Talk to Luc Dubanchet about bakery and patisserie, and he exudes enthusiasm about the sector’s future. “The French bakery market …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdesserts #artisan #baker #cereal #country #crust #crusty #desserts #francais #france #French #frenchdesserts #job #male #professional #Rye
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2412666/sirha-europain-and-the-new-focus-in-the-french-bakery-and-patisserie-sector/

Mutations in Rye (Secale cereale L.) - #ryemutantvariety #selffertilitygenes #meiotic #chlorophyllmutants #anthocyaninless #morphologicalmutations #rye #selffertility #dwarfmutants #Secalecereale #Secale - https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452725050044

I used the loaf tin for a #rye #bread. This is a hefty one: 2.3kg. #sourdough #baking