Not necessarily, because I don't separate trans from cis, though some people do. It's really a personal preference. Pan feels like a more inclusive term to me than what bi does.
I refer to myself as pan for two reasons. First, I believe that gender is a spectrum and there's more than two of them. Two, to me bisexual implies equal attraction to both the masculine and feminine, and I'm less attracted to the masculine than I am to the feminine end of the scale.
Really, pansexual is being attracted to the the person, regardless of their gender identity.
You want both weights and airlock lids as they serve different purposes. Weights keep everything submerged below the brine, and airlocks allow produced CO2 to escape without allowing oxygen in. Lacto fermentation is an anaerobic process and oxygen is the enemy.
The Belgian and German styles are largely ignored by the national breweries, but a lot of more local or regional microbreweries are crushing it when it comes to them.
You've gotten a few answers already that explain what it is, but a lot of the discussion misses the "why" of the situation. There's a strong anti-US government part to the whole situation that basically says "if you're going to ban tiktok in the US because you're afraid of China getting our data/controlling the algorithm then we'll just join a social media site whose servers are actually in China!" It's a big FU to the government.
Not necessarily, because I don't separate trans from cis, though some people do. It's really a personal preference. Pan feels like a more inclusive term to me than what bi does.