03-28-19 Hop Sampler - Motueka, Rakau, and Nelson Sauvin
James and Steve taste hops from New Zealand, and James faces a possible equipment contamination.
Mar 27, 2019•50 min
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03-21-19 DC Homebrewers SMASH
Omar Al-Nidawi shares beers from the DC Homebrewers Club experiment brewing different styles with Pilsner malt and Sterling hops.
Mar 20, 2019•54 min
03-14-19 Scaling Up with Sapwood Cellars
Mad Fermentationist Michael Tonsmeire talks about the brewery he co-founded in Columbia, Maryland, and the challenges of scaling up from homebrew.
Mar 13, 2019•1 hr
03-07-19 Lab Testing HSBUs
David Curtis of Bell's General Store in Kalamazoo talks about Select Centennial Hops and shares lab IBU tests of beers brewed for the Hop Sampler series.
Mar 06, 2019•52 min
02-28-19 Astarte Bronze-Age-Style Beer
Homebrewer AJ Hart took part in an experimental archeology project on bronze age brewing techniques in Cyprus and collaborated with her husband, Justin, to bring those ideas home.
Feb 27, 2019•44 min
02-21-19 Chiller Stirring Experiment
Engineer Alex Roberts joins James again to test the effects on stirring a wort while it's being chilled by an immersion chiller. They also reverse the chiller's water flow.
Feb 20, 2019•33 min
02-14-19 Golden Ale Yeast Experiment
Kyle Swallow of Twin Lakes Homebrew Club and Rapps Barren Brewing in Mountain Home, Arkansas, talks about an experiment fermenting one Golden Ale wort with 13 different yeasts.
Feb 13, 2019•42 min
02-07-19 Year-Long Stout Collaboration
Homebrewer Chris McKenzie shares his experience collaborating with five other homebrewers in a year-long experiment to design the perfect stout.
Feb 06, 2019•46 min
01-31-19 Hawk Moth Brewing
James talks to Bradley Riggs of Hawk Moth Brewing in Rogers, Arkansas - a brewery focused on small batch, old-world-style, wood-aged beers.
Jan 30, 2019•49 min
01-24-19 Hop Sampler - Willamette, Amarillo, Falconer's Flight
James and Steve sample an old American standby against a relative newcomer and a hop blend.
Jan 23, 2019•45 min
01-17-19 Monster Cereal Beer Roundup
We sample a batch of five monster cereal beers brewed from Frankenberry, Boo Berry and Count Chocula.
Jan 16, 2019•41 min
01-10-19 Mead Yeast Sampler - US-05, S-33, BE-134
Steve splits a batch of mead and pitches three different dry beer yeasts to test the effects of each.
Jan 09, 2019•40 min
01-03-19 Ivory Bill Brewing
We visit Ivory Bill Brewing in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where long-time friend of the podcast, Casey Letellier, and his partner, Dorothy Hall, are serving up delicious open-fermented, gluten-reduced, English-inspired beers.
Jan 02, 2019•1 hr
12-20-18 Annual Disaster Show
Steve and James read a ton of letters about homebrewing disasters from listeners across the globe.
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 37 min
12-13-18 Hop Sampler - Lemondrop, German Mandarina Bavaria, and Simcoe
Steve and James taste a batch of hops chosen by Steve's son, Chase, and introduce the concept of Hop Stand Bittering Units (HSBUs).
Dec 12, 2018•47 min
12-06-18 Loki Yeast Temperature Experiment
Casey Helwig and Jess Caudill from Imperial Organic Yeast help James and Steve evaluate an experiment fermenting a kveik strain at two different temperatures.
Dec 05, 2018•48 min
11-29-18 AHA 40th Anniversary
American Homebrew Association Director Gary Glass joins us to talk about four decades of the AHA, ongoing homebrew legislation issues, and the upcoming Homebrew Con and National Homebrew Competition.
Nov 28, 2018•43 min
11-15-18 Hop Sampler - Centennial, Citra, Galaxy
In our fifth show of the series, we taste some higher alpha hops and get a surprise result.
Nov 14, 2018•38 min
11-08-18 Competition Karate
Chris Colby, editor of Beer and Wine Journal, shares his strategies to take home more hardware from homebrew competitions.
Nov 07, 2018•45 min
11-01-18 IBUs vs Wort Gravity and Hop Stand Temps
Dr. Chris Hamilton of Hillsdale College in Michigan shares results of his experiments testing the effects of increased wort gravity and different hop stand temperatures on IBU measurements. He also updates us on his research with Clarity Ferm on gluten in beer.
Oct 31, 2018•59 min
10-25-18 Chiller Flow Experiment
Engineer Alex Roberts helps James conduct an experiment looking at the effect of varying the flow rate of water through an immersion chiller when chilling wort.
Oct 24, 2018•42 min
10-18-18 Ricky the Meadmaker, Too Controversial
Ricky the Meadmaker from Groennfell Meadery in Vermont talks about an article detailing his techniques that was deeemed "too controversial" to print.
Oct 17, 2018•57 min
10-11-18 Makgeolli - Korean Rice Wine
Homebrewer Tommy Caillouet introduces us to an easy-to-brew alcoholic rice beverage that has its roots in ancient Korea.
Oct 10, 2018•46 min
10-04-18 Wheat and Rye Flour Experiment
Homebrewer Brook Baber drew upon his background as a baker to brew beers using wheat and rye flour in the mash.
Oct 03, 2018•51 min
09-27-18 Spontaneous Sours Hopping Rate Experiment
Homebrewer Caleb Buck of archaicpursuit.com shares some delicious sour beers and startling early results of his sour IBU experiment.
Sep 26, 2018•58 min
09-20-18 Hop Sampler - Crystal, Glacier, German Huell Melon
James and Steve taste the fourth in the series featuring single hops brewed into three small batches.
Sep 19, 2018•43 min
09-13-18 Fal Allen on Brewing Gose
Anderson Valley Brewing Company brewmaster Fal Allen talks about his new book, Gose: Brewing a Classic German Beer for the Modern Era.
Sep 12, 2018•56 min
09-06-18 Mead Yeast Experiment
Steve shares an experiment fermenting a split batch of mead with three dry wine yeasts.
Sep 05, 2018•42 min
08-30-18 Mead Bottle Pasteurization Experiment
Home meadmaker Tim Leber shares his experiment using sous vide to pasteurize mead after bottling.
Aug 29, 2018•43 min
08-23-18 Zero Tolerance Gluten Free Club
Homebrewers Joe Morris, Ed Golden and Bob Keifer join us to share their techniques and recipes for brewing delicious beers without gluten.
Aug 22, 2018•57 min
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