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I have Simpsons Best which I like alot. I also have some Warminster Maris Otter which is floor malted.

Well, I have a whole thing with hops. The hops we’re buying and using now are last year‘s harvest, right? Harvested when, packaged when, shipped how, stored how? Even if they’re 6 months in the package they’ve most likely lost some. So when you’re getting hops that say 8%, are they really...

The last one I did was: 5 gal OG: 1.034 IBU: 29 SRM: 10 6 lbs British Pale malt (I have Simpson’s) 6 oz Crystal 65 (Fawcett) 6 oz Special Roast (Breiss) First Gold 8% .6 oz 60 min Kent Goldings 5.6% 1 oz 20 min Kent Goldings 5.6% 1 oz 5 min Wyeast 1099 My water numbers were similar: Ca: 57...

Got this in email today

And this is good info how to attach a beer engine using John Guest fittings. This is how I did mine. https://realaleamerica.com/?page_id=2083

I put it above in #8. No I don’t have a real cask. I have it set up to use a corny keg. I have to vent the pressure release. Leave the pressure release open. Work the hand pump. Close the pressure release and re-pressurize when I’m done. Store the keg in my kegerator. I don’t have any way to...

Thanks. Total Wine helps. We have one that is about a 40 min drive. And there’s another discount beer place here. I just got that 30 pack of Strohs for $10. And 2 cases of Ultra in bottles also $10 each. Hard to pass for about .33 a can/bottle

Was a work in progress for awhile. Took years to get to this. And I know its not as nice as what some others here have. After we finished this basement I found a 5 foot wood bar with a footrail and mirror back bar at a consignment shop. Then I found the buffet server at another consignment...

Little cigar (Gran Habano) and a couple ounces of rum

She turned me into a newt, Well, I got better.

Found this on sale at our beer distributor. 16oz cans. Northern Germany. I don’t recall ever having this before. Tasty.

I haven’t had any issues with mine. But I never had beer in it for months or a decade. Its a half gallon of beer. 4 pints or a little over 5 x 12 oz beers. I mostly use it to take my beer to homebrew club meetings or if I get a growler from a brewpub its in there 3 or 4 days at the most.

That one looks really cool and I’m looking at that wondering if it could be adapted for a beer engine. If you didn’t use a cartridge and could somehow connect the engine to where the faucet goes on.

I have one like this. I use it mostly to take beer to homebrew club meetings. Its made by Ukeg. Called Ukeg Go. It comes in 64oz and 128 oz sizes and different colors. The cartridges are not threaded. https://perfectwerks.com/collections/ukeg-go-carbonated-growlers

I took a run at having a store in the Philadelphia area from late 2000 and it lasted not quite 4 years to 2004. Many issues, some of which have only gotten worse. I’m going to say it was never really profitable. I could not afford to have any employees. Many weeks I couldn’t pay myself. I...