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finished the lagering process and quite some sediment settled out of the liquid
decanting the beer to not have any sediment in your drink makes it have a very mild (read: underwhelming) flavor, mixing it with the sediment gives it a nice flavor but that also gives it an off-taste, mixing it with the sediment, then letting it sit for a little to let some of the sediment settle out again however makes it so that it gets the nice flavors from the sediment but only minimal off-taste
id say for my very first beer thats not bad, but next time around ill have to do something about the sediment and that off-taste which might come from the hops but dunno, decanting it more carefully when bottling is probably the way to go since i dont have some big, expensive filtering system and im not going to get one

i still much prefer distilling and winemaking but making some beer from time to time is a nice change of pace

and on the topic of winemaking:
the pear wine has had some time to age, there is a somewhat powdery mouthfeel which definitely is the result from harvesting the pears before they had fully ripened (had no other choice since i was going on vacation after that) and its still a bit sour, but its getting noticeably better every week
ive been experimenting with putting some wood chips in, so far the wood toasted to give a sweet flavor is faring much better than the wood toasted for vanilla flavor, but i have to be careful not to add too much wood since it can easily overpower the flavor of the wine and throw it off balance

this is how i live