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Carbonate before you travel - if you're getting married on a mountain top then beware the altitude change and under-carbonate at home. Vice versa if you live on a mountain and are getting hitched on the beach. Pour off a couple of pints before you go and any other sediment should have settled...

Just checking you are also sanitizing your crown caps at bottling time? If not, this could be a source of infection.

I have one of these at home: Shakespeare Hand Pull It essentially dispenses under CO2 pressure but the hand pull does something clever to dispense it as though it has come from a cask. Beer does not oxidize as it would do in a cask and there is no additional wastage from beer sitting in a...

Maybe try using new bottles and just sanitise them rather than bleach / dishwasher process. Split your next batch between new and old bottles (and mark the bottles). If the new bottles are ok and the old ones show signs of infection it would give you a clue as to where the problem lies. Keep...

Rauchbier with bacon, "Italian wheat" with spaghetti, tomatoes, basil & black pepper, Kentucky Common with popcorn....

This sounds just like a problem one of our brew club members was having recently. Changed water, changed equipment, problem still there across multiple beer styles. Eventually tracked down to the fact that fermentation was incomplete every time - our brewer was not checking FG's and giving the...