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The Funkwerks tap room goes through a fair number of those hefty 750 ml Champagne bottles, so a while back I asked if they'd save their empties for me. They ended up putting a little wooden bin just outside the brewery that says "Bottle Exchange," and you can just back your car up and take away...

This recipe is inspired by Porterhouse's fantastic Wrasslers XXXX Stout, said to be based on a recipe favored by Michael Collins himself. I've had Wrasslers on draught in Dublin and in bottles here in the US, and this is very similar, though a little drier than I remember for the original. By no...

Let's see if those aromatic microbes can stand up to the Foaming Action ®.

Here's one for you. I've been mashing in a converted 10gal Home Depot cooler for several years now. I get consistently good brewhouse efficiency (70-80%) and haven't experienced a single stuck sparge, even with large percentages of wheat, rye, or oats. I batch sparge with this lauter screen from...

I'm getting married in June, and our venue is kindly allowing us to bring homebrew. They will supply the draft system and a bartender to pour the pints, so I need to package in standard sankey kegs to make the operation as seamless as possible for their staff. I plan to chat with their bar...

I live in Fort Collins, and I've checked with Airgas and General Air about filling a Nitro cylinder with beer gas. They told me on the phone that they only do cylinder swaps, but I was hoping for a fill rather than an exchange. Anyone know of a place that fills nitro cylinders? Ideally in...

I'm pretty excited about this upcoming White Labs platinum strain for March/April. WLP860 Munich Helles This yeast helps to produce a malty, but balanced traditional Munich-style lager. Clean and strong fermentor, it's great for a variety of lager styles ranging from Helles to Rauchbier...

I've been following this thread for some time: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/howto-capture-wild-yeast-101886/ Lots of good info in there, and it inspired me to capture my own backyard yeast strain. I boiled up some water and light DME to a gravity of ~1.030, poured it into a mason jar...

Just had to give a shout out to Funkwerks, a new saison-focused tap room in Fort Collins, Colorado. SWMBO and I paid them a visit last week, and they were pouring up some mighty fine farmhouse-style ales in the little building that used to house the Fort Collins Brewery. Grand opening isn't...

I brewed a Helles lager this past weekend using Wyeast 2308 Munich Lager. I'm using a temperature controller on a chest freezer to maintain 48 deg for fermentation, and I had airlock activity 24 hours after cold pitching a 2L starter. So I feel good on this front. Once fermentation is...