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Ok, so about 6-8 months ago I did a recipe for a Mirror Pond porter clone and all seemed to go ok. I bottled this batch and let it age. I cracked one open about a month after bottling and it had very little carbonation. I let it sit longer. 2 months - same thing, 3 months same... It tastes...

I usually soak my bottles in a bleach solution then blast them with hot water using a bottle washer and finally run them through the sanitize setting on my dishwasher (without soap of course) right before bottling. Is this a little overkill? When using fliptops, I take off the wire fliptop and...

I'm going to be adding valves to my brew pots and am wondering if there is a real need to go with stainless steel components (I'm doing this the "no weld" method). Brass components are very easy to come by and are cheaper - is there a compelling reason to go with SS?

San Jose to be exact. I got into home brewing about a year ago and all I can say is that it is totally addicting. I went from a basic brew kit to a kegging system, culturing yeast and will soon be brewing all grain. Thanks to the folks at my local home brew shop out in Mountain View, CA and...