bauhauswerk

Just an ordinary economist who loves leatherworking, photography and video. Love cooking. Eating I love even more. I travel. I drink as well

Dear Coilers, New Brew! is here with the style which is the dearest to my heart, and one of the great expressions of the style will be tasted in Coil’s taproom for the subscribers. You could already learn about Scottish Ale in this series, but let me remind you...

SCOTTISH ALE vary depending on strength and flavor, but in general retain a malt-forward character with some degree of caramel-like malt flavors and a soft and chewy mouthfeel. Some examples feature a light smoked peat flavor. Hops do not play a huge role in this style. The numbers commonly associated with brands of this style (60/70/80 and others) reflect the Scottish tradition of listing the cost, in shillings, of a hogshead (large cask) of beer. Overly smoked versions would be considered specialty examples. Smoke or peat should be restrained.

Scottish Ales go through a longer boil in the kettle, allowing the wort to caramelize. The result of this process is a dark brown, full bodied ale, bursting with flavor and generally higher in alcohol. Roasted malty caramel flavors dominate in these boisterous brews, which usually have high content of alcohol, 5,5 to 10 percent ABV. A slight bitterness may be present, though the strong caramel flavors from the long boil tend to dominate over noticeable bitterness. Unsurprisingly, some Scotch Ales may have a slightly peaty flavor to them.

This brew is made to be enjoyed, not for session drinking. If you plan to have more than a couple, consider eating some cheese, dried meat and homemade bread with it.

TRAQUAIR HOUSE is Scotland’s Oldest Inhabited House. Visited by 27 Scottish Kings and Queens. Traquair dates back to 1107 and has been lived in by the Stuart family since 1491. Originally a royal hunting lodge, Traquair played host to Mary Queen of Scots and later as staunch Catholics they supported the Jacobite cause without counting the cost.

TRAQUAIR HOUSE ALE

The original ale first brewed in 1965 and now sold all over the world. Perhaps the most distinctive Scottish ale on the market and with its rich dark oakiness, this is a serious winter ale.

Awards:

Ratebeer Overall rating: 97

Beer Advocate: World Class Beer

Top 50 World Beers – International Beer Competition 2006 and 2007

“Serious alcohol and fruity malt on the nose and delicious plum pie and vanilla flavours with a little oak and amontillado sherry character”

So let’s taste it...

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#ChallengesByCin – future winner

How they scam you with the prices?!

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Dear Coilers, there is nothing as fulfilling as visiting new places, learning about new cultures and meeting new people.

Every trip makes you more rich. More empty the wallet, more rich the soul. Traveling is investing, just like education.

The experience you get during travels can’t be learnt from by watching documentaries or travel vlogs.

But COVID crisis and the lockdown suddenly made impossible, what was very easy before it.

Travel nomads are restless, a life without travel is a life in jail. So there has to be some changes in planning. Next destination has to be chosen respecting political (they say epidemiological) decisions the authorities made to imprison normal people.

Choosing the destination is a bit harder this season. Travel restrictions and border controls made travel abroad more than annoying. So staying in own country is the easiest and most comfortable way.

Luckily, I live in a country, Croatia, which is very popular tourist destination. Adriatic coast with its more than a thousand of islands and islets is a crown of the Mediterranean, with Dalmatia and its islands as the brightest of its jewels.

After some thinking, the decision was to visit the island of Mljet, the most beautiful and the most forested island in the Adriatic. I haven’t been there for a looooong time anyway.

Untouched nature, the island's mysticism, olive groves, vineyards and rich forests are ideal places to research the rich flora and fauna, and to peacefully enjoy the pristine beauty of the natural surroundings.

Its known written history goes back to 2400 years in the past. I will introduce you with it and its legends in the series of blogs and vlogs to come. BUT...

...next few days will be used for planning the itinerary and booking stuff.

Plan is to take a bus to Split and a 3 hours trip by catamaran from Split to the island. Book a car there, a kayak, a boat... as some of the most legendary attractions are reachable only (mostly) by sea.

The only hotel on the island (there is private accommodation too) is placed in the Mljet National Park. Luckily due to COVID, it is still not fully booked, just like there are still empty seats on the catamaran from Split.

Usually during the high season, it is a gamble to find a room there as well as a boat ticket to reach it. Alternative is a ferry but that trip would take additional 3-4 hours of trip plus bad bus connections to Pelješac half island, or 6-7 hours more if ferry taken from Dubrovnik...

I hope the booking will go smoothly so I won’t have to change the destination... I am really looking forward to this trip, both for the vacation and for the photos, videos and blogs to follow it.

The time will tell...

Thanks for reading,

Srdan

Dear Coilers, Brew! is back and this time I bring you the first review of a beer which is tasted from a can, as a can is the original, initial, package of that brew. I will open it in Coil’s taproom for the subscribers.

Nova Runda Craft Brewery – is The startup story. Since the first home brew in 2009, decision to fund a brewery in 2012, registration in June 21 2014 and in the years after, the brewery has changed several locations around Croatia with the crown of the work in 2017 when they were awarded “Best Brewer In Croatia” for the year 2016 by RateBeer. Finally, in April 2019, they have found their own home in the town of Zabok in the northern part of Croatia.

C4 AMERICAN IPA – was brewed to celebrate the employment of both co owners in their brewery in 2013. At that moment nobody could even think that C4 will become one of the most recognizable Croatian craft brews.

If APA was hoppy, then it's only natural to hop up IPA even more, and make it EXPLOSIVE! Which reminds us of how this beer got it's name in the first place. The second meaning of C4 IPA refers to the combination of hops that were used to make the beer. Namely, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook and Citra form the 4C quadraphony in this hoppy bomb which quickly went from seasonal to regular on the brewery’s beer menu, along with APA. If you're ready for a full-on “FeelTheHops” dominance of the American hops, C4 is the perfect choice – it's a hoppy tropical bomb!...

C4 is American India Pale Ale, the style of which we learnt – Brew famous by intensive hoppy taste. American IPA has two lines, East Coast and West Coast.

East Coast IPA is more balanced with stronger malts to match strong hops. Bitterness is present but much more rounded with sweet malt.

West Coast IPA is known by aggressive hoppy flavour with citrus and floral notes and it is bitter. Very bitter.

As the craft brewing developed, line between East and West Coast IPA smoothed and blured. What you can expect from both of them is a pure power of hops.

...So let’s taste it...

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Dear Coilers, as I constantly try to explain you, economics is simple, economy is logical.

In the same time it is logical that the “Superciuk” economy is the only which is long term sustainable.

PhD in economics wouldn’t make me know things if I haven’t understood the matter.

Economy is so logical that even little kids can understand it. To the commons it is explained as – buy for less and sell for more! And in the end it is not more complex than that.

Let me make you familiar with Superhik (Superciuk in original) and Alan Ford...

Alan Ford is an Italian comic book created by Max Bunker *(*Luciano Secchi) and Magnus *(*Roberto Raviola), in print since 1969. The comic book is a satirical take on classic secret agents laden with surreal and black humour, and sardonic references to aspects of the contemporary Italian and Western society.

Superciuk (pronounced “Superchook”, meaning “Superdrunk”), with his real name Ezechiele Bluff, is the most prominent villain of the series, sometimes being the main subject of the plot. He steals from poor people and gives to rich, like an anti-Robin Hood of sorts. His main weapon is his deadly breath, alimented with poor quality Barbera (Italian red wine) and onion and tomatoes. (In Italian “chook” sounds like “ciucco” (“very drunk”). In his normal life Superciuk is a street sweeper who is constantly vexed by his companion, Beppa Giosef.

So let’s go back to the economics...

Superhik/Supercuik economy is the economy we live. Taking from the poor to giving to the rich is what it is all about.

Superhik was a street sweeper who was angry because poor have been leaving streets full of trash and the rich were clean and never made him have to work. All the trash he had to sweep was from the poor. So he decided that he is going to take from the evil poor and give to the good rich. No matter he was the poorest of the poor. He simply hated those of his own kind.

The same is with all of the common citizens of the world. All of them who are poor, hate the fact they are poor, as well as they hate other poor people. Because others would put them in the same basket with them. Yet they (all of them) fell they are better than that.

The modern economy was designed for the poor to pay and rich to earn, and then came Bitcoin.

Designed for the unbanked and to skip the banks... thru the years, many followed, and meny new crypto were designed. Different causes and use cases, but in the end, all have the same in their core, payment and the circulation of money, always counted in FIAT, mostly United States Dollar.

Now came the news from the same United States, the authority said:

The United States’ banks can provide Cryptocurrency custody service! – Thomas Jefferson

Aaaaaand, it means that the banks will keep your coins SAFU while stealing a percentage from your bag for the service they provide.

Finally, all the coins became BANK(STER) COINS and all the postulations about the Crypto existence had drowned in a sewer of the “revolutionary minds dreams”.

I, as a dictator, love complete control and centralization. I’ve always openly wished all Crypto to become bankster’s. As a bankster’s brother, I knew they will NOT let some genius engineers and programmers steal their job.

Usually there are 3 ways to get what you want. You can ask, you can buy and you can kill.

Luckily, they’ve came to the 4th way, to regulate.

Whoever thought that the banks will die, is either too high on the cocktail of heroin, cocaine, mushrooms and LSD, or is simply stupid. And Maxis who made a fortune of seeing the future and being able to made a fortune of it, are not stupid that’s for sure.

Now back to Superciuk/Superhik – We will keep your coins SAFU just like we kept your money safe for centuries, say the banks.

NO, you are not getting any interests. You are paying. You are “thanking us for our service”.

If you can thank for their service to the people who keep your life safe, you will thank for the service to those who keep your offspring’s house and education payments safe.

Will you not?

Oh, yes you will.

Not because you want to, but because you will HAVE TO.

Superhik rides again, like he did for centuries and all will come to their bags in the end...

Thanks for reading,

Srdan

Dear Coilers, I’m sure you know who Yves Saint Laurent was, but do you know where he lived?

The Jardin Majorelle, which extends over 9,000 square meter, is one of the most enchanting and mysterious gardens in Morocco. Designed and built thru decades, it is enclosed by outer walls, and consists of a labyrinth of crisscrossing alleyways on different levels and boldly coloured buildings that blend both Art Deco and Moorish influences.

It was created by the French painter and Orientalist artist, Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years. In 1922 he began planting the garden with exotic botanical specimens from the far corners of the world. Later addition features a Cubist villa designed by the French architect, Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. The property was the residence of the artist and his wife from 1923 until their divorce in the 1950s.

The garden proved costly to run and in 1947, Majorelle opened the garden to the public with an admission fee designed to defray the cost of maintenance. At times, he sold off parcels of land to fund the growing garden. Following his divorce in the 1950s, Majorelle was forced to sell the house and land. After this, the garden was neglected and fell into disrepair.

Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, who first arrived in Morocco in 1966, have rediscovered the garden and villa and have purchased the Jardin Majorelle to save it from destruction at the hands of hotel developers. As new owners, they have decided to live in Jacques Majorelle’s villa, which they renamed the Villa Oasis.

Yves Saint Laurent enjoyed his Moroccan home and it’s colours which were his inspiration:

For many years, the Jardin Majorelle has provided me with an endless source of inspiration, and I have often dreamt of its unique colours. – Thomas Jefferson

For the Coil subscribers, here is a short video of it, enjoy...

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(Just to make it clear, in the header pic you can see ex Croatian president Kolinda Grabar Kitarović showing middle finger to you!)

Dear Coilers, a year has passed, I’m still here and not planning to leave.

A year ago, on the July 21st 2019, I’ve published my first article on Coil and since then I’ve done the same with some 170 of other articles too.

I have recived thousands of messages of thrilled readers and fellow Coilers today, but I’ll post just one, from a guy I’ve hardly ever met but is my coauthor in many articles:

Happy Coil anniversary! They are truly lucky to have such a smart, thoughtful, and talented creator like you! – Thomas Jefferson

I guess I have to post my most successful/appreciated articles here and some of those I personally think are the best or at least special.

I know that rare of you reading this will click on the links but if you decide to do it, click this one as it is the Table of Contents of my Morocco’s travelogue in words and videos which I’ve been composing and publishing each night after the day of rumbling around the country.

My most upvoted article was about Coil which is not too inspiring for me as a creator of much more interesting posts covering much more interesting topics.

OK, one of the most upvoted was my marketing move proving quality isn’t what is needed for the success. And the success it was, got many messages on Twitter with the thumbs up and congratulating me for not being afraid of posting that. Even saying I could lose boost for it, them forgetting that Coil staff aren’t pre school weepy kids but professionals who want to hear the truth, not just praising and thanking them.

So dear Coilers, if you have things to tell them, don’t be afraid to speak up. I have, few times, and will again if I see some twisted things happening on the platform...

I blog and vlog about whisky and beer too (have to mention it as this kind of self praising posts asks for it). My whisky posts are combined with Cinnamon video platform on which I publish reviews of whiskies I write about on Coil. I do some photography as well

Every now and then I publish my philosophical thoughts about the economy and the economics, posts which I enjoy writing as, in the end, economics is my trade (on paper). At least my dear parents won’t be able to say that I am a hack writer wasting all the years they’ve invested in my education on writing about alcohol. This way I am an economics analyst and the leader of the economics thoughts.

You know, when neighbours ask parents what is their son doing for living, it is not the most pleasant thing for them to say that he spends passive incomes of the investments they’ve made for him in the past. (Here, of course, I don’t talk about myself but about some random guy).

Thou, if they’ve asked me in the first place, I would never attended any school nor university, as knowledge is for the stupid, and stupidity is for the smart. More stupid you are more easily you go thru the life, at least in my dearest homeland and the world’s stupidest country, Croatia.

Now I could post dozen of articles which are so splendid that living without having them read is worse than a life in prison for every sane and free thinking human being.

I could thank to platforms and friends I’ve made thru them but I won’t. I would certainly miss someone and it wouldn’t be nice nor fair to do. But I’m sure that those who are on the list know it without me mentioning them!

In the end, I would like to congratulate myself for the milestone reached.

BTW, have I told you how awesome I am?!

YUUUUUUGE!

Thanks for reading,

Srdan

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(Lady from the header pic with her friend showing thumb up this time)

Dear Coilers, long time has passed since my last photography article here. Thou this one is more videography made using photography technique.

I have been filming some B-roll shots for a friend which I’ve made in time-lapse technique so it crossed my mind that few simple tips could be of interest for the creators on Coil and Cinnamon Video.

Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much more spread out than the frequency used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

For example, an image of a scene may be captured at 1 frame per second, but then played back at 25 frames per second; the result is an apparent 25 times speed increase. To get 1 minute long final video, you have to shoot for 25 minutes.

Time-lapse scenes are very attractive if are shot with just few things in mind:

Always use a tripod or a gimbal!

If you want to catch the moving clouds, frame the scene and shoot it static. The scene itself has enough of movement so panning should distract the viewer from what you wanted to achieve

https://www.cinnamon.video/watch?v=365810742907110798

But if you want to catch the scene which is mostly static without any objects moving, panning is highly recommended. As well, if you want to show wider area than it is framed by the lens, panning is good choice.

https://www.cinnamon.video/watch?v=365812888452990370

If you want to catch a scene which is static but some moving objects appear in the frame every now and then, you can use fixed frame. Good example is a crossroad. Cars come into the frame periodically, but as the time-lapse make the time appear go faster, there won’t be to many empty seconds in the final video.

https://www.cinnamon.video/watch?v=365811607126672792

I hope this was of help and I wish you play with the technique to make your videos more attractive.

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