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My wife and I are remodeling our kitchen and when I joked about installing a couple beer taps she gave me a thumbs up (I've got a good wife). Here's the deal: The kitchen is located over a crawlspace that has about a 4 foot clearance, is insulated (spray on foam on walls, thick vapor barrier...

I tried making my own slants by making a starter then pitching only about 2/3 of the starter for my next batch, restarting the starter with some fresh wort and then freezing the slurry in a glycerin solution. See this blog post. I pulled my first slant from the freezer, defrosted it and made...

I used my new Tap-A-Draft system twice now. I love it, but it doesn't hold a charge. After the first time I was really careful to make a good seal when I screwed the tap on the bottle and when I screwed in the CO2 cartridges. My beer is good and carbed when I start. I chill it overnight...

I'm probably not using good judgment, but I want to try out a few new things at the same a time: 1) This is my second batch (after trying a couple not so great batches about 15 years ago). 2) I want to try dry hopping for the first time (because a buddy gave me some leaf hops from Oregon)...

Started brewing a winter warmer with a wyeast smack pac on 11/1. It was slow to get started because the room was too cold. but got going at a pretty steady pace once I brought in a space warmer a few days later. Its been 18 days now and its still slowly bubbling away. I know what I should...

I brewed my first batch in well over a decade, and even tried a secondary fermentation which went well. Primed and bottled three weeks ago. Popped open a bottle last night (bottles are in the basement but not in a fridge), and though it tasted much better than my few brewing attempts years...