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Trumix.com listings available of Basic Brewing Radio Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 08-21-08 Stretching Hops - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, explains some tips on how to get the most out of our precious hops. Also, how to use a French press coffee maker in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-14-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Roasting Coffee Home brewer and coffee roaster Scott Koue of San Francisco joins us to talk about roasting our own coffee. Home roasted coffee can add more creative control into home brewed coffee beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-07-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Aeration: Shaking vs Pumping Scientist and home brewer Fred Johnson of Apex North Carolina shares his experiment comparing fermenter shaking against aquarium pumping for aeration. Also, advice for cleaning Better Bottles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PDF: Effectiveness of Various Methods of Wort Aeration This is Fred Johnson's paper comparing fermenter shaking vs aquarium pumps for wort aeration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-31-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Mt. Carmel Brewing We sit down with Mike Dewey of Mt. Carmel Brewing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio - a commercial home-based brewery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-24-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Turbid Mashing Chris Colby of Brew Your Own Magazine explains the Belgian technique of turbid mashing, which makes the most of limited mash tun space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-17-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Randy Mosher - Belgium Nobody Knows Our National Homebrewers Conference coverage from Cincinnati concludes with an interview from Randy Mosher. Randy talks about Belgian beer history and culture he found in a rare book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-10-08 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Wrapup Pt. 2 Our National Homebrewers Conference coverage from Cincinnati continues. We have interviews with Ant Hayes, Greg Doss, Ray Daniels, Ken Schramm and Craig Ballenger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-03-08 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Wrapup Pt. 1 Steve joins James as they begin their collection of interviews gathered from experts at the National Homebrewers Conference in Cincinnati. This week: Dave Wills, Michael Ferguson and Chris White. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-26-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Jim Koch NHC Keynote Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Company, gives an inspiring keynote address to the National Homebrewers Conference in Cincinnati. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-29-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Green James and Steve read letters from listeners with tips on how to brew greener and cheaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-22-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Mead Basics Mike Lozano, home brewer and mead maker from Aurora, Colorado, takes us through the basics of mead making from the ground up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-15-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Alternate Hopping Strategies Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist, shares three beers that have had hops added in "non-traditional" schedules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-08-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Dandelion Wine Tired of looking at those dandelions in your yard? Home brewer Don Osborn tells us how to put them to good use in the fermenter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-01-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Beer Eye for the Wine Guy Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV brings the thunder to BBR and gives us his perspectives on the art of tasting as he samples homebrew. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-24-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Homegrown Hops Revisited Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, answers questions from listeners about growing hops in containers and other home growing issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-17-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewer Michael Lalli of Choc Beer James and Steve sit down with the head brewer of the largest brewery in Oklahoma to share beers and tips on how to brew better beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PDF: Light Absorption by Various Beer Bottle Glass This is Brad Sturgeon's paper showing effectiveness of colored glass on absorbing light harmful to beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-10-08 Basic Brewing Radio - The Science of Skunking Chemistry professor Brad Sturgeon of Monmouth College explains the science behind beer skunking and what kind of glass is best to protect against it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-03-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Tasmanian Hop Harvest Matt Kirkegaard, editor of Beer and Brewer Magazine fills us in on the state of the hop harvest in Australia and tells us about the beer and brewing culture in his part of the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-27-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Homebrew Goes to College Dr. Andrew McMichael of Western Kentucky University tells us about his History and Science of Beer and Brewing course that incorporates home brewing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-20-08 Basic Brewing Radio - What Is an IBU . . . Really? John Palmer, author of How to Brew, shares information from a conference that challenged his concept of what defines an International Bitterness Unit (IBU). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-13-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Belgian Sugar Experiment II The Mad Fermentationist Michael Tonsmeire leads us through the second round of his tasty experiments using different sugars in Belgian Beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-06-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Italian Style Italian home brewer and beer podcaster Tony Manzi gives us a virtual tour of the beer and home brewing scene in his country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-28-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Hop Update and Hybrid Sparging Chris Colby from Brew Your Own Magazine gives some advice on hop substitution and tells us about a hybrid sparging method between batch and fly. Also, we get an update on the Utah home brewing legislation from Douglas Wawrzynski. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-21-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Is Homebrew Good for You? Steve Wilkes talks about the health effects of homebrew and beer in general with nutritionist Marjorie Fitch-Hilgenberg of the University of Arkansas. Also, we check in on Utah brewing legislation with home brewer Douglas Wawrzynski. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-14-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Homebrew History Charlie Papazian shares a bit of homebrew history 30 years after legislation legalizing home brewing passed Congress. Also, home brewer Robb Holmes talks about brewing when it was breaking the law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-31-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Contest, Letters, "World's Best Beer" James, Steve, and Andy reveal the winners of the "You know you're a home brewer when . . . " contest, read listener letters, and sip rare Belgian beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-03-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Ray Daniels' "Hot Scotchie" James sneaks away from the family during his vacation to post a quick interview between Steve Wilkes and Ray Daniels on a treat to taste while brewing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-24-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Mash Tun Efficiency "How to Brew" author John Palmer helps us walk through mash tun efficiency - how to get the most out of our mash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-17-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Ray Daniels on Beer Education Ray Daniels introduces us to the Cicerone program, which is designed to educate beer servers and sellers. Also, Ray talks about education opportunities for home and professional brewers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-10-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Sourdough Bread Home brewer and home baker John Owen talks about the similarities between baking and brewing and tells us how to make sourdough bread from scratch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-03-08 Basic Brewing Radio - Leftover Brewday Andy Sparks and Steve Wilkes join James on the patio to brew a partigyle session with leftover ingredients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-27-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Nightmares In this low-maintenance holiday episode, we share your brewday mishaps to live, laugh and learn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-20-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Speed Brewing From grain to glass in one week? Chris Colby from BYO magazine tells us how to brew a finished, drinkable beer in seven days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-13-07 Basic Brewing Radio - The Hop Shortage: What To Do Chris Colby of Brew Your Own Magazine fills us in on the hop situation and gives us tips to make it through to better, hoppier times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-20-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Worth Brewing Company Peter Ausenhus of Worth Brewing Company in Northwood, Iowa talks to us about how he's running a professional brewery with homebrew-scale equipment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-06-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Cask Conditioning Benjy Edwards of Columbus, Ohio teaches us about cask conditioning and how we can make Real Ale at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-29-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Making Sake Bob Taylor of Anchorage, Alaska shares his knowledge of sake and how he makes it at home during long Alaskan winters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-22-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Reiterated Mashing Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine walks us through his process of making big beers by putting wort back through a second or third mash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-15-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Maui Brewing Company Garrett Marrero of Maui Brewing Company tells us about brewing in paradise and lets us in on how a couple of his wonderful beers are brewed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-08-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Beer Yeast Mead Mead maker Mike Lozano shares his experiment making mead with beer yeast. We also salute the Mighty Carson Art Players. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-01-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Reusing Yeast Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, gives us tips on reusing all the good yeast we find in the bottom of our primary fermenter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-25-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Sam Adams LongShot 2007 Winners Jeff Bearer of Craft Beer Radio reports on the winners of the Samuel Adams LongShot homebrew competition at GABF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-13-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Pairing Beer with Food Randy Mosher, author of "Radical Brewing," talks with Steve Wilkes about pairing beer with food and cooking with beer. Randy says beer is a much better partner with food than wine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-23-06 Basic Brewing Radio - National Homebrew Competition Gary Glass of the AHA joins us to talk about how and why to enter the National Homebrew Competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-18-07 Basic Brewing Radio - GABF 2007 Recap We talk to Great American Beer Festival first-timers Jeff Bearer of Craft Beer Radio, Rick Sellers of Pacific Brew News Radio and Rick Hagerbaumer of Big Foamy Head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-11-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Measuring Tools Chemistry professor Brad Sturgeon walks us through the basics of using thermometers, hydrometers and refractometers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-4-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Countertop Partial Mashing Revisited Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine gives us an update on what he's learned about doing partial mashes with a countertop cooler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-27-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Offbeat Yeasts Part Two We continue our tasting with Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist from Washington D.C. This week, all the beers are fermented with Brettanomyces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-20-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Offbeat Yeasts Part One Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist from Washington D.C., shares some of his beers made with other-than-normal yeast. In this episode: Kvass, Flanders Red, and a Strong, Dark Belgian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-13-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Keeping Bees We talk to home brewer and amateur bee keeper Ryan Wilson about how to get insects to make the sweet stuff for our meads and braggots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-06-07 Basic Brewing Radio - "Marketing" Homebrew Creative Consultants Bob Corscadden and James Gardner of jimbob give us tips on "selling" the idea of drinking homebrew and other good beers in this day of mass-marketed big-boy beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-30-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Ambitious Brew Part One We learn about the history of beer in the USA from Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew - The Story of American Beer. Part one takes us from the Pilgrims to Prohibition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-21-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing American Pilsner Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, walks us through the hoops and hurdles home brewers have to go through to brew American Pilsner, the most maligned of all styles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-28-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Belgian Sugar Experiment James, Andy Sparks and Steve Wilkes collaborate to taste home brewer Michael Tonsmeire's experiment comparing six different sugars in Belgian beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-07-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Ambitious Brew Part Two We continue our discussion about the history of beer in the USA with Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew - The Story of American Beer. Part two takes us from Prohibition to present day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-04-07 Basic Brewing Radio - Home Brewing vs. Craft Brewing We get input from our listeners on "home brewing" vs. "craft brewing" and extract vs. all grain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-11-07 Basic Brewing Radio - John Palmer on pH John Palmer, author of How to Brew, walks us through the potentially intimidating topic of pH. John tells us how to measure pH and what to do with our measurements to improve our beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-14-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Beer Judge Certification Program Ed Westemeier, communications director of the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP), gives us the history behind the organization and talks about its role in brewing today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-09-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Adam Avery of Avery Brewing Andy, Brian and James spend some time chatting with Adam Avery of Avery Brewing. Adam talks about making the move from home brewer to brewery owner, dry hopping and making big beers at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-02-06 Basic Brewing Radio - HSA Experiment - Final Chapter Andy Sparks and James Spencer join Brian Warren and John Holder in Denver to taste the last round of samples in the Hot Side Aeration experiment. We also get feedback about the experiment from John Palmer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-26-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Queen of Beers and Recirculating Systems Rick Sellers from Pacific Brew News Radio reports on a California brewing competition for women only. Also, Chris Colby from BYO explains high-end RIMS and HERMS brewing systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-23-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Decoction Mashing Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own Magazine, walks us through the age-old process of decoction mashing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-16-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing FAQs with John Palmer John Palmer, author of How to Brew, joins us to answer frequently asked questions on home brewing. John also tells us the causes of common off flavors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-19-06 Basic Brewing Radio - New Belgium Brewing We travel to Fort Collins, Colorado to speak with Eric Salazar and Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium Brewing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-12-06 Basic Brewing Radio - GABF Beer Judging Demonstration Thanks to a demonstration hosted by the Brewers Association, we see what happens behind the scenes in the judging of the Great American Beer Festival competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-05-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Homebrewing Contests at GABF We cover two homebrewing competitions in connection with the Great American Beer Festival: the GABF Pro Am and the Long Shot competition from the Boston Beer Company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-28-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Our Chat with Charlie Papazian We join homebrew guru Charlie Papazian near a beautiful stream at his house to share his homebrew and his thoughts about the hobby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-21-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Fruit Beers with Randy Mosher Randy Mosher, author of Radical Brewing, talks to us about fruit beers and getting the most out of them. Randy also gives us his favorite approach to pumpkin beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-14-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Making Ciders and Countertop Mashing Ben Watson, author of Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own, introduces us to the world of homemade ciders. Also, Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine lets us in on his method of partial mashing using an unmodified two-gallon drink cooler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-07-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Single-Hop Small Batch Experiment Andy Sparks and Steve Wilkes join James to taste the results of homebrewer Michael Tonsmeire's single-hop small batch experiment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-31-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing with the Ginger Beer Plant Homebrewer Raj Apte lets us in on the long-lost process of brewing with the Ginger Beer plant. This way of brewing soft drinks at home was commonplace decades ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-24-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Going Big: Life After 1.064 Bob Hansen, technical services manager of Briess Malt and Ingredients Company, shares thoughts on his presentation from NHC on making big beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-17-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Extract Brewing Strategies Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine joins us to share his favorite strategies for getting the best beer out of a split-boil extract brewing session. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-10-06 Basic Brewing Radio - First Wort Hopping and Dry Hopping The last interview from Orlando: James talks to Matt Brynildson of Firestone Walker Brewing and John Mallet of Bell's Brewery about first wort hopping and dry hopping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-03-06 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Coverage Part Three More interviews from the National Homebrewers Conference: Homebrewer Raj Apte on his "one-dollar homebrew barrel" and author John Palmer on wort fermentability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-27-06 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Coverage Part Two NHC coverage continues as James and Steve interview professional brewers and other professionals connected wtih the brewing industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-20-06 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Coverage Part One Steve Wilkes joins James as they play interviews with six homebrewers recorded at the National Homebrewers Conference in Orlando. Great tips and useful information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-25-06 Basic Brewing Radio - NHC Coverage Preview This is a quick look ahead at our coverage of the National Homebrewers Conference in Orlando, Florida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-22-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Two Homebrew Experiments We hear from two homebrew experiments: William Tope, a high school student from Houston, Texas, delves into whether alpha acid levels of hops affect fermentation rates, and the Hot Side Aeration experiment continues with Brian Warren and John Holder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-15-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Water with Greg Noonan We talk brewing water with Greg Noonan, author of "New Brewing Lager Beer" and other noted brewing books. Greg is also owner and brewer at the Vermont Pub and Brewery in Burlington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-08-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Homebrewers Conference Preview We preview the National Homebrewers Conference with Gary Glass of the American Homebrewers Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-01-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Mead Experiment Update and Listener E-mail Steve Wilkes joins James to talk about flavoring the Great Mead Experiment from the video side of Basic Brewing. James and Steve also answer listener e-mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-25-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Basic Equipment Pt. 2 We continue our look at the foundation of making beer at home: good equipment. In this episode, Andy Sparks helps us look at gear that goes beyond the absolute necessities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-18-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Basic Equipment Pt. 1 We take a look at the foundation of making beer at home: good equipment. In this episode, Andy Sparks joins James to start with what is absolutely necessary to make an extract batch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-11-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Hop Varieties and Schedules Tess and Mark Szamatulski, authors of Clone Brews and Beer Captured, help us make sense of the wide variety of hops and give us tips on the most effective hop schedules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-04-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Poor Richard's Ale Tony Simmons of Pagosa Brewing Company, creator of Poor Richard's Ale, joins us to talk about his historic brew and the challenges of getting a new brewery off the ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-27-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Like a Monk Stan Hieronymus, author of Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them, tells us about his book and gives us tips on how to brew wonderful Belgian beers at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-13-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Mini-mashing or Partial Mashing Kevin DeLange of The Brew Hut and Drydock Brewing Company helps us clear up the process of mini-mashing and what makes it different from steeping in an extract batch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-06-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Growing Hops at Home Dave Wills of Freshops walks us through the process of planting, growing, and harvesting our own hoppy goodness at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-30-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Too Much We get help from Gary Glass of the American Homebrewers Association to answer a listener's question about putting too much of a good thing into our brews. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-16-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Hot Side Aeration We travel to Austin, Texas to taste the results of Brian Warren's experiment on Hot Side Aeration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-09-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Clones Tess and Mark Szamatulski, authors of Clone Brews and Beer Captured join us to talk about making copies of our favorite brews. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-02-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Adjuncts with Andy Andy Sparks joins us to talk about adjuncts - those fermentable ingredients we add to beer in addition to water, yeast, barley malt, and hops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-23-06 Basic Brewing Radio - International Mead Festival Recap Our man in the field, Brian Warren, recaps the recent mead festival in Boulder, Colorado, and bring us interviews with commercial mead makers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-16-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Bad Beer Tasting - Pt. 2 We continue our night of bad beer tastes as we dive into part two of our trying the FlavorActive Enthusiast beer taste troubleshooting kit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-09-06 Basic Brewing Radio - American Pale Ales We talk to Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine about one of our favorite styles - American Pale Ales. Great taste and easy to brew. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-02-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Mead with David Myers David Myers, Chairman of the Mead for Redstone Meadery, joins us to talk about the beginnings of Redstone, the International Mead Festival, and brewing mead at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Brewing Radio - July 14, 2005 We begin our discussion of homebrewing with Andy Sparks of The Home Brewery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7-28-05 Basic Brewing Radio We conclude our discussion on the basics of homebrewing with Andy Sparks, talking about hops, mostly. We also talk about a special offer for podcast listeners and look ahead to our show celebrating National Mead Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Brewing Radio - July 21, 2005 We continue our discussion on the basics of homebrewing with Andy Sparks, talking about the nuts and bolts of brewing, ales vs. lagers, and more.