08-30-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Blending Beers
Matt Brynildson of Firestone Walker gives us advice on blending beers to create new brews and explains his brewery's system of oak aging.
Aug 30, 2007•51 min
Basic Brewing Radio
Basic Brewing Radio is a weekly chat about homebrewing - brewing the best beer and mead in the world in your own home.
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Episodes
08-23-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing with Coffee
Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine gives us some tips on brewing beer with another brewed beverage - coffee.
Aug 23, 2007•41 min
08-16-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewer Thomas Larsen
Thomas Larsen of Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver gives us his take on making wonderful beers with interesting ingredients.
Aug 16, 2007•34 min
08-09-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewer John Legnard
John Legnard of The Sandlot at Coors Field gives us brewing tips and lets us in on what it's like to brew at a small brewery owned by one of the big guys.
Aug 09, 2007•33 min
08-02-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Meadmaker Mike Lozano
We sample delicious meads and mead-based experiments with home meadmaker Mike Lozano of Aurora, Colorado.
Aug 02, 2007•52 min
07-26-07 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Grab Bag
This week, we have an assortment of sound from the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver. We talk to David Myers of Redstone Meadery, Tony Simmons of Pagosa Brewing and Vinnie Cilurzo from Russian River.
Jul 26, 2007•42 min
07-19-07 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC: Tips and Tasting
Our coverage of the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver continues with brewing tips from David Houseman and tasting tips from Lauren Salazar of New Belgium.
Jul 19, 2007•39 min
07-12-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Water Alkalinity and Beer Styles
John Palmer, Rick Bobbitt and Scott Jackson talk about their experiment at the National Homebrewers Conference pairing beer styles with appropriate water chemistry.
Jul 12, 2007•36 min
07-05-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Measuring and Predicting IBUs
Two chemistry professors, Bradley Sturgeon and Paul Charlesworth, join BBR veterans James Spencer, Andy Sparks, Steve Wilkes and Mark Smith to share the results of an experiment putting IBU prediction formulas through their paces.
Jul 05, 2007•58 min
06-28-07 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Keynote: Peter Bouckaert
Peter Bouckaert, brewmaster of New Belgium Brewery, addresses the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver and takes Charlie Papazian to task on beer styles.
Jun 28, 2007•48 min
05-31-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Same Yeast, Different Flavor
Neva Parker, laboratory manager for White Labs yeast, explains her experiment putting three yeast strains through various temperatures and gravities.
May 31, 2007•42 min
05-24-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Designing Brewing Experiments
Chris Colby from Brew Your Own magazine walks us through the process of designing experiments in brewing to get accurate, useful results.
May 24, 2007•54 min
05-17-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Conical Fermenters
We talk with members of Fayetteville Lovers of Pure Suds about their fancy fermenters and why they moved up from carboys.
May 17, 2007•58 min
05-10-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Aging with Oak
Dan Carey, Brewmaster of New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, shares his tips on aging beer in oak chips and in oak barrels.
May 10, 2007•54 min
05-03-07 Basic Brewing Radio - AHA Events
Gary Glass, Director of the American Homebrewers Association, joins us to talk about Big Brew, National Competition and National Conference.
May 03, 2007•47 min
04-26-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Software
We read listener reviews of brewing software, and Andy Sparks talks about the Boulder Strong Ale Festival.
Apr 26, 2007•57 min
04-19-07 Basic Brewing Radio - A Tale of Two IPAs
Chris Colby from Brew Your Own Magazine takes us behind the scenes with the two personalities of one of our favorite styles: English and American IPAs.
Apr 19, 2007•58 min
04-12-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Batch Sparging with Denny Conn
Noted batch sparging advocate Denny Conn gives us his side of the batch/fly-sparging debate and answers listener questions and concerns about the process.
Apr 12, 2007•52 min
04-05-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Yeast Life Cycle
David Logsdon from Wyeast takes us through the life cycle of our favorite micoorganism and lets know how we can help our yeast thrive and make great beer.
Apr 05, 2007•42 min
03-29-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Sanitizing with Bleach and Star San
Charlie Talley of Five Star Chemicals tells us best practices in using household bleach and Star San in sanitizing equipment.
Mar 29, 2007•48 min
03-22-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Sanitizing with Iodophor
Murl Landman of National Chemicals talks to us about sanitization in general and using Iodophor specifically.
Mar 22, 2007•51 min
03-15-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Steven Pauwels of Boulevard
Steven Pauwels of Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri lets us in on home brewing tips as he talks about some adventurous brews he has planned.
Mar 15, 2007•47 min
03-08-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Long Shot Winner Ken Smith
Ken Smith of the Boston Beer Company tells us about how he came up with his winning Boysenberry Wheat, which has been included in the Samuael Adams Long Shot six pack.
Mar 08, 2007•37 min
03-01-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Home Malting
Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine tells how we can turn seed into malt in our own kitchens.
Mar 01, 2007•45 min
02-22-07 Basic Brewing Radio - KC Club Competition
We travel to Kansas City, Missouri (actually Olathe, Kansas) to attend the 24th annual homebrew competition of the Kansas City Biermeisters.
Feb 22, 2007•31 min
02-15-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Collaboration with Adam Avery
Adam Avery from Avery Brewing in Boulder, Colorado lets us in on some of the behind-the-scenes details of brewing "Collaboration not Litigation Ale" with Vinnie Cilurzo of Russion River Brewing.
Feb 15, 2007•48 min
02-08-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Organic
Amelia Slayton from Seven Bridges Cooperative joins us to tell us about brewing with organic ingredients and why we should consider it.
Feb 08, 2007•41 min
02-01-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Mead Festival and Experiment Tips
David Myers from Redstone Meadery gives us a preview of the upcoming International Mead Festival in Denver. David also has some advice for our upcoming multi-batch mead experiment.
Feb 01, 2007•43 min
01-25-07 Basic Brewing Radio - How to Smell Better
Researcher Dr. Jay Gottfried explains how the sense of smell works and how a study he's conducting may help us to improve our brews by being able to smell more accurately.
Jan 25, 2007•42 min
01-18-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Gluten Free Brewing
Connie Rieper-Estes and Leigh Nogy from Dark Hills Brewery talk with us about brewing gluten free beer at home and their dream of founding a commercial gluten free brewery.
Jan 18, 2007•44 min
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