diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/tap.rb b/Library/Homebrew/tap.rb
index 52e6136b6cc96ca71c109517b37b7c23718819f6..62721985bf710835b722b6e07e2f7296efba70d0 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/tap.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/tap.rb
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ class Tap
     end
   end
 
+  # The default remote path to this {Tap}.
+  def default_remote
+    "https://github.com/#{user}/homebrew-#{repo}"
+  end
+
   # True if this {Tap} is a git repository.
   def git?
     (path/".git").exist?
@@ -185,7 +190,7 @@ class Tap
 
     full_clone = options.fetch(:full_clone, false)
     quiet = options.fetch(:quiet, false)
-    requested_remote = options[:clone_target] || "https://github.com/#{user}/homebrew-#{repo}"
+    requested_remote = options[:clone_target] || default_remote
 
     if installed?
       raise TapAlreadyTappedError, name unless full_clone
@@ -293,7 +298,7 @@ class Tap
   # True if the {#remote} of {Tap} is customized.
   def custom_remote?
     return true unless remote
-    remote.casecmp("https://github.com/#{user}/homebrew-#{repo}") != 0
+    remote.casecmp(default_remote) != 0
   end
 
   # path to the directory of all {Formula} files for this {Tap}.
@@ -500,9 +505,13 @@ end
 # A specialized {Tap} class for the core formulae
 class CoreTap < Tap
   if OS.mac?
-    OFFICIAL_REMOTE = "https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core"
+    def default_remote
+      "https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core"
+    end
   else
-    OFFICIAL_REMOTE = "https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core"
+    def default_remote
+      "https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core"
+    end
   end
 
   # @private
@@ -521,11 +530,6 @@ class CoreTap < Tap
     safe_system HOMEBREW_BREW_FILE, *args
   end
 
-  def install(options = {})
-    options[:clone_target] ||= OFFICIAL_REMOTE
-    super options
-  end
-
   # @private
   def uninstall
     raise "Tap#uninstall is not available for CoreTap"
@@ -546,11 +550,6 @@ class CoreTap < Tap
     false
   end
 
-  # @private
-  def custom_remote?
-    remote != OFFICIAL_REMOTE
-  end
-
   # @private
   def core_tap?
     true