12-14-17 Tasting Superior Bathhouse Brewery
We sip beers with Rose Schweikhart of Superior Bathhouse Brewery in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and get some tips on brewing some tasty beers.
Dec 13, 2017•56 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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12-07-17 Unusual Ingredients
Chris Colby, editor of Beer and Wine Journal and author of Methods of Modern Homebrewing, gives us advice on when and where to use interesting ingredients to bring some unique flavor to our beer.
Dec 06, 2017•44 min
11-30-17 Lost 40 Barrel Beers
Grant Chandler from Lost 40 Brewing in Little Rock shares some delicious beers aged in barrels and brewed with fun ingredients, such as honeysuckle, strawberries, and locally harvested yeast.
Nov 29, 2017•1 hr 3 min
11-16-17 Against All Hops
Butch Heilshorn, author of "Against All Hops: Techniques and Philosophy for Creating Extraordinary Botanical Beers," tells us how he brews new beers with roots to the past.
Nov 15, 2017•54 min
11-09-17 JJ's Brewing Company
We visit JJ's Brewing Company in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to talk to Jennifer "Muck" Muckerman and Andrew Porter about brewing American Lagers and other beers to convert customers to local brews.
Nov 08, 2017•49 min
11-02-17 Saison Yeast Experiment
Homebrewer Joe Covey shares his Saison experiment comparing a split wort fermented with Safbrew T-58 and Danstar Belle Saison yeasts.
Nov 01, 2017•51 min
10-26-17 Blood Beer
Homebrewer James Sandford talks about how he and his wife, Lucy, rose to the challenge to brew a beer with powdered pig's blood.
Oct 25, 2017•39 min
10-19-17 Steve's Porch Meads
James and Steve take a break after shooting videos to share some of Steve's meads and talk mead making tips.
Oct 18, 2017•53 min
10-12-17 Ancient Sumerian Happy Juice
Chris Colby, editor of Beer and Wine Journal, tells us about the wine, honey, bread and beer beverage he brews based on the Hymn to Ninkasi.
Oct 11, 2017•43 min
10-05-17 Pippin's Taproom Session Beers
We visit the taproom at High Gravity in Tulsa where Dave Knott, Amanda Schley and Tim Schley give us tips on brewing delicious beers under 4% ABV.
Oct 04, 2017•51 min
09-28-17 Arkansas Beer
Brian Sorensen, author of Arkansas Beer: An Intoxicating History, joins James on the porch for a couple of beers and a chat on the history of beer in The Natural State.
Sep 27, 2017•53 min
09-21-17 Fair State Brewing Cooperative
Evan Sallee and Matt Hauck, two of the founders of Fair State Brewing Cooperative in Minneapolis, join us to talk about hoppy and sour beers and their business model.
Sep 20, 2017•48 min
09-14-17 Session Beers with Jennifer Talley
Jennifer Talley, author of Session Beers - Brewing for Flavor and Balance, give us tips on brewing lower gravity beers that are tasty and satisfying.
Sep 13, 2017•50 min
09-07-17 Olvalde Farmhouse Ales
Joe Pond, founder of Olvalde Farmhouse Ales, talks about brewing rustic beers based on local and native ingredients on a Rollingstone, Minnesota, family farm.
Sep 06, 2017•39 min
08-31-17 Imperial Organic Yeast
Owen Lingley, Jess Caudill and Jason Stepper from Imperial Organic Yeast talk about their fairly new company and answer questions from listeners.
Aug 30, 2017•47 min
08-24-17 Ozark Beer - Berliner, Bucky, and BDCS
Ozark Beer founder, Andy Coates, and head brewer, Jesse Gagnon, talk new building, yogurt-soured Berliner Weisse, Buckminster Fuller-inspired beer, and Bourbon Double Cream Stout.
Aug 23, 2017•52 min
08-17-17 Home Lab Isolation and Propagation
Zack Taggart, lab manager at 42 North Brewing, continues his presentation on setting up a homebrew lab by talking about isolating and propagating yeast and bacteria.
Aug 16, 2017•56 min
08-10-17 Ryan Richardson Mead
Ryan Richardson of The Mead House podcast shares half a dozen fun and delicious meads.
Aug 09, 2017•53 min
08-03-17 56 Brewing
Nick Chute, head brewer of 56 Brewing in Minneapolis, shares some delicious beers and some tips on how to brew similar ones at home.
Aug 02, 2017•38 min
07-27-17 Home Lab Yeast Analysis
Zack Taggart, lab manager at 42 North Brewing, tells us how to set up our own homebrew lab to analyze yeast health and count cell population.
Jul 26, 2017•50 min
07-20-17 Matt Weide Mead Experiments
Former meadmaker of the year Matt Weide joins us at HomebrewCon in Minneapolis to share meads made with walnuts, peanuts and ginger. He also shares a couple of bochet (burnt) meads.
Jul 19, 2017•50 min
07-13-17 Boom Island Brewing
Kevin Welch of Boom Island Brewing in Minneapolis has turned passion for music and Belgian beers into a commercial operation designed to carry on a long tradition.
Jul 12, 2017•42 min
07-06-17 Hop Chronicles and Club Night
We meet up with the Brulosophy crew at HomebrewCon in Minneapolis to evaluate two varieties of hops, and we chat with brewers and brewing experts on the Club Night floor.
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 9 min
05-25-17 Hop Timing Experiment
Steve Wilkes and Casey Letellier help James evaluate an experiment comparing three beers with single hop additions at 60 minutes, 30 minutes and flameout.
May 24, 2017•49 min
05-18-17 Earthbound Beer
Stuart Keating gives us brewing tips and explains why his brewery brews beers described as the "smallest and weirdest" in St. Louis.
May 17, 2017•46 min
05-11-17 Brewing Kombucha
Phil Nigash of the podcast My Life As a Foodie joins us to talk about restarting his show and getting into brewing kombucha at home.
May 10, 2017•52 min
05-04-17 Sean Terrill Attenuation Study
Sean Terrill of Two Mile Brewing in Leadville, Colorado, talks about his study and article examining the effect of mash temperature on attenuation rates of three yeast strains.
May 03, 2017•45 min
04-27-17 Fruit Flavor Additions
Homebrewer Jamie Conway joins James and Steve as they taste beers and meads with different approaches to integrating fruit character.
Apr 26, 2017•47 min
04-20-17 Step Mashing
Chris Colby of Beer and Wine Journal gets into the details about step mashing and how we can use it to control the character of our beers.
Apr 19, 2017•46 min
04-13-17 Recipe Formulation: Playing with Gravity
James and Steve sit down during a brew day to talk about how to calculate and predict starting and finishing gravity levels of beers.
Apr 12, 2017•51 min
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