Yeah that sounds about right lol. Any time I hear someone say “you can’t ferment x and have it be drinkable” I go out of my way to try and ferment it. I heard that about watermelon and the watermelon wine I made turned out great, and distilling it to moonshine made the best watermelon brandy I’ve ever had (every commercial one I tried has the artificial watermelon taste). I’ve also made milk wine. Maybe I am a mad scientist…

It would depend on how lazy I was. For the fruits I’d heat them to 158F (70C) for 15 minutes while stirring constantly. But I’ve also been completely lazy and dumped in the blueberries without treating them in any other way besides freezing them. Since it’s in secondary and I tend to make higher abv beers I’m sure even that was most likely over kill. And it depends, my favorite is my chocolate hot pepper imperial stout, but my black berry Belgian triple was also really good. I think the only one I wasn’t a fan of was the kiwi, but I think it’s because I added too little to my beer to impart a significant taste, or I didn’t do the right base beer (I think a sour kiwi beer would be good but I haven’t made fermented beer in a while)

Over all, I recommend just playing around! I’ve made some abominations of fermented beverages (whiskey made from only hot Cheetos) sometimes it’s just more fun to experiment and see what you get!

All the time! (Back when I was doing extract brews as well) typically I would use the lighter dry malt extracts when doing so. But at the end of the day using extracts only limits some of the different grain flavors you can get (and that’s if you don’t do a small muslin bag with grains for the first bit of heating the extract)

Things I’ve added that I can remember off the top of my head. In Secondary: vanilla beans, coffee beans, peaches, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, kiwi, ginger, cinnamon sticks. Making a tincture: Cacao Nibs, habanero peppers, Carolina reaper peppers, vanilla bean

For the expensive trial and error part, what id do when I wasn’t sure what fruits I’d want to use I’d brew 5 gallons of my base beer, and split it into 5 different fermenters and add whatever I was feeling into each then compare what I like most once it’s done in secondary.

Yup. I used Libra in college but getting the formatting right took longer than writing my papers. If I had to pay for a subscription to office I wouldn’t, and I don’t, I just prefARR’ my office apps.

Definitely is. I have a picture of me looking through the little wood character that’s in the background of the OP, from the museum in Dayton OH

If you use Waze instead, they actually have a setting you can toggle for roads that are more twisty. In my experience it works great!

Yup, similar boat but with planes instead of cars. Most inputs Linux can support on a single usb device is 86 or so, my throttle alone has well over 150 buttons on it. Add in all the stuff for my sim cockpit (probably around 1000 buttons), my haptic feedback chair, and then VR… as much as I’d like to use Linux, I don’t think it’d be possible for the foreseeable future for me to switch.