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Cartridges are 100% Nitro from what I've researched. So beer would need to be pre-carbonated.

Drinking Rye by itself (with one large cube) I prefer Angel's Envy Rye and High West Double Rye. For a rye old-fashioned I will go with Whistlepig or the go-to Bulleitt rye.

I think BA has a place on their site that lists bars/pubs/breweries by city. You may check there. The Rathskeller is an interesting place but I haven't been there in years. Try to track down 3 Floyd's while you are in Indiana. Great beers and not widely distributed at all.

Nice giveaway! Sweet gear.

5 months on the yeast cake is worrying but I'd pull a sample and taste it. If it tastes alright, then get it off the yeast cake and either bottle or drop the temps and lager some more.

Cold crash it and fine it with gelatin to help with clarity.

Is it still in primary sitting on yeast cake?

How high did you overheat the mash? What were you targeting and what did you mash at?

Any old cooler bulkhead kit will do. I prefer to reuse the silicone washers that seal the cooler's spigot than the ones in the kits though.

I did my first decoction mash a couple months back (a Marzen also). So I am by no means an expert, but here is how I did it and judging by my hydrometer samples, it turned out fantastic. I doughed in thick at protein rest temps and did an infusion to reach the maltose rest ~144. Because of...

Have I been living under a rock? How did I not know these existed? Seems like a great idea if they work well. Has anybody bought one?

To proceed: Let fermentation finish and allow the yeast to cleanup after themselves...2 weeks or more. Everything will settle to the bottom and you can carefully rack the clear beer to keg or bottling bucket.

Looks like cold break material from that photo. Normal trub.

7 hours?! On your secondary no less. How long did it take to clean your primary, A week? I don't use a secondary so my primary has krausen, dry hop debris, yeast, finings, and God only knows what all else stuck to it. I dump in a scoop of oxyclean and fill it with water. It's clean the next...

I like how it's already rigged for dynamite in case you need to bug out in a hurry. :D