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02-09-12 Triangle Zombie It's a trifecta: We have a triangle test of a fermenter experiment, sample our Zombie Apocalypse beer, and hear about brewing on a frozen Wisconsin lake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-02-12 Bourbon Stout Experiment Home brewer Patrick Bresnahan shares his bourbon stout experiment, trying to find the proper amount of bourbon to add to the beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-26-12 Kentucky Belgians Home brewer Christopher Owen shares the Belgian yeast experiment he conducted with the Louisville, Kentucky LAGERS club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-26-12 Kentucky Belgians Home brewer Christopher Owen shares the Belgian yeast experiment he conducted with the Louisville, Kentucky LAGERS club. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-10-11 Brewing As a Monk Sadhaka Rajanatha of Kauai's Hindu Monastery shares some 17-year-old mead and his experiences as brewer for his fellow monks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-03-11 No Sparge Brewing Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, fills us in on the technique of mashing with all your brewing water and not rinsing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-27-11 Melon Blood A behind-the-scenes look at the Basic Brewing Video episode, where James and Steve brew a watermelon wheat beer using only watermelon juice as the brewing water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-20-11 Spontaneous Homebrew Home brewer Ken Valley shares beer that he allowed Mother Nature to innoculate instead of pitching yeast. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-22-11 Wheat Wednesdays Adam Draeger of the Yak and Yeti brewpub in Arvada, Colorado, joins us to talk about his journey going pro and his techniques of adding fruit to wheat beers in a weekly feature at his pub. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-15-11 Canning Wort James sits down with Andy Sparks and Dave Johnson to talk about canning wort for starters as the pressure cooker steams in the background. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-08-11 Email and Chickenuts James and Steve catch up on email and find a missing gem from Club NIght at NHC - Chickenuts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-01-11 Brewing Saison Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist, and Nathan Zeender join James and Andy to sample homebrew Saison and talk about how to brew it. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-28-11 BYO-BBR Yeast Rehydration Experiment Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, and Sean Terrill, head brewer of Silverton Brewing Company, help James examine the results of the latest collaboration experiment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-21-11 Cider Priming Sugar Experiment Zot O'Connor shares his experiment priming cider with different priming sugars. Helping us to judge the results are members of WAHA and a special surprise guest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-14-11 HAZE Hop Experiment Members of the Hangtown Association of Zymurgy Enthusiasts (HAZE) of Placerville, California share their experiment comparing three hop varieties' flavor and aroma characteristics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-07-11 Vinnie Cilurzo NHC Keynote Vinnie Cilurzo, founder of Russian River Brewing and inventer of the double IPA, takes us through his trek from home brewer to innovative pro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-26-11 BYO-BBR Glassware Experiment Will glassware affect the character of your beer? Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, joins James and Steve to investigate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-19-11 Cyser and Mead Experiments James and Steve taste the results of home brewer Dave Scheuing's experiments with mead, cyser and different yeasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-12-11 Brett Beer Home brewer Don Osborn shares two beers that were brewed only using Brettanomyces strains to ferment. Don also talks about mashing in the evening and brewing the next morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-05-11 Gluten Free Brewing Desiree Knott of High Gravity in Tulsa tells us about her quest to brew the perfect gluten free beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-28-11 Refractometer Results and High Altitudes Sean Terrill returns to share the results of his efforts to refine the post fermentation refractometer correction formula and tells about his new job, brewing in thin air. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-21-11 Jan Halvor Fjeld Jan Halvor Fjeld, this past year's Norwegian home brewer of the year, talks about his home system and shares a pale ale experiment. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-17-11 Kai Troester on pH Part One Home brewer Kai Troester begins a two-part discussion on pH in brewing by starting with the basics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-10-11 Berliner Weisse Andy Sparks and the Mad Fermentationist, Michael Tonsmeire, share their homebrew Berliner Weisse beers and talk about brewing the nicely tart ales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-03-11 BYO-BBR Conversion Experiment James is joined by Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, along with home brewers Kai Troester and Zot O'Connor, as they look at the results of the starch test collaborative experiment. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-13-11 Blueberry Wheat Experiment Home brewer Adam Draeger shares his experiment comparing blueberry extract against real blueberries for flavoring a wheat beer base. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-06-11 Weyermann Malts In a presentation recorded in Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Kraus-Weyermann from Weyermann Malts gives background on the malting process and its products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-30-10 Holiday Barleywines James and Steve enjoy a vertical tasting of end-of-the-year holiday barleywines, starting with the present and ending in 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-09-10 Kvass: Beer with Bread Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist, and Nathan Zeender join us to talk about Kvass, a traditional beer brewed with bread. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-09-10 Nano Brewing in Mississippi James talks with John Neal and Sam Sorrells from the Keg and Barrel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. They're carving a foothold for good beer on a small scale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-02-10 Refractometers and Hydrometers James has a pint or two with home brewer Sean Terrill as they discuss measuring specific gravity and ask for your help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-26-10 Beehive Brew-Off James heads to Salt Lake City to take part in the second annual Beehive Brew-Off homebrew competition, celebrating legal homebrew in Utah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-19-10 NHC Banquet with the Homebrew Chef Steve Wilkes spends a few minutes behind the scenes of the National Homebrewers Conference banquet with Homebrew Chef Sean Paxton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-12-10 NHC Going Pro Panel Part Two - Basic Brewing Radio Five professional brewers answer questions from the crowd at the "Going Pro" panel at the National Homebrewers Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-05-10 NHC Going Pro Panel Part One - Basic Brewing Radio Four professional brewers share their perspectives and tactics on starting a commercial brewery from scratch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-01-10 Mark Stutrud, NHC Keynote - Basic Brewing Radio Mark Stutrud of Summit Brewing in St. Paul addresses the 2010 National Homebrewers Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-24-10 Club Spotlight: Prairie Homebrewing Companions - Basic Brewing Radio James and Steve profile the Prairie Homebrewing Companions of Fargo, North Dakota in front of a live audience at the National Homebrewers Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-10-10 BYO-BBR Irish Moss Experiment - Basic Brewing Radio James, Steve, and Blake Lyon evaluate the experiment that attempts to determine whether Irish Moss or other fining agents make a difference in homebrew. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-03-10 A Failed, But Fun, Trifecta - Basic Brewing Radio James joins Steve for an attempt to brew a mead, a wine, and a beer on the same day on a holiday weekend. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-21-10 Odonata Beer Company - Basic Brewing Radio Peter Hoey of Odonata Beer Company in Sacramento joins us to talk about launching a new brewery and gives tips for brewing Saisons, Chocolate Stouts, and hoppy Beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-14-10 GBS Iron Brewer Competition - Basic Brewing Radio Jeff Britton, president of the Garage Brewers Society of O'Fallon, Missouri, explains his club's current contest centering around mystery ingredients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-07-10 Beer Foam - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, joins us to talk about factors affecting foam on beer. Also, we catch up on the BYO-BBR Collaborative Experiment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-31-09 Holiday Barleywine Vertical - Basic Brewing Radio James and Steve end out the year with a little vertical tasting of small-batch holiday barleywines from the past couple of years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-17-09 Partigyles Gone Wild - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewers Greg Pietsch, Scott Schluter, and Mark Glinski describe a partigyle brewday when they used two mashes to generate a lot of beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-10-09 Mixing Yeast and Experiment 3 - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, talks about an experiment mixing yeast strains in homebrew. Also, we launch our third collaborative experiment. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-27-09 Strawberry Ale Experiment - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewer Matt Troutman describes the results of his experiment comparing adding strawberries at the end of the boil and into the secondary fermenter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-20-09 Freestyle Home Brewing - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewer Ricky Klein shares beers and his philosophy of brewing around the traditional style guidelines with ingredients found on hand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-13-09 Sean Paxton, The Homebrew Chef - Basic Brewing Radio Sean Paxton, The Homebrew Chef, sits down with James and Steve after his National Homebrewers Conference presentation to talk about the philosophy of beer and food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-06-09 Utah Legal Homebrew Competition - Basic Brewing Radio Douglas Wawrzynski shares his observations and interviews following the first legal home brewing competition in Utah's history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-30-09 Yeast Biology and History - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, sheds some light on the scientific workings and background of our favorite fungus. We also talk about the next phase of the collaborative experiment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-23-09 WAHA Decoction Experiment - Basic Brewing Radio James and Steve taste a decoction experiment conducted by members of the Washington Homebrewers Association and get guidance from Michael Ferguson of BJ's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-16-09 NHC Troubleshooting Panel - Basic Brewing Radio The troubleshooting panel discussion at the National Homebrewers Conference, featuring Tomme Arthur, Vinnie Cilurzo, Michael Ferguson, John Palmer, and Ken Grossman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-09-09 NHC Mead Panel - Basic Brewing Radio The mead panel discussion at the National Homebrewers Conference, featuring Byron Burch, Charlie Papazian, Curt Stock and Harold Gulbransen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-02-09 Ken Grossman NHC Keynote - Basic Brewing Radio In the first of our coverage of the National Homebrewers Conference in Oakland, Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada Brewing gives the keynote address. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-12-09 Hog Haus Partigyle - Basic Brewing Radio James joins Mehmet Kadiev, head brewer, and David Mathews, assistant brewer, at the Hog Haus brewery in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as they brew two beers from one mash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-05-09 Wine Kit Pyment - Basic Brewing Radio Mead maker Mike Lozano walks us through making a pyment using a wine kit as a shortcut. Also, Douglas Wawrzynski fills us in on the victory in Utah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-26-09 Carboy Top Cropping - Basic Brewing Radio James talks to home brewer Sam Scott of Hamilton, New Jersey about a method he's using to harvest yeast from a carboy during primary fermentation. Also, we get another homebrew legislation update. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-19-09 Maple Sap Brewday - Basic Brewing Radio Andy and James join home brewers Kasey Loman and Jen Royer as they brew a batch of beer using maple sap as most of the brew water. We also learn how sap is harvested. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-13-09 Homebrew Legislation Update - Basic Brewing Radio In this "extra" episode, Douglas Wawrzynski interviews Gary Glass, director of the American Homebrewers Association, on a victory for home brewing in Utah and on legislation efforts across the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-12-09 Mead Honey Experiment - Basic Brewing Radio Mead maker Mike Lozano joins James, Steve, and Andy as they take part in his experiment comparing six different honey varieties in mead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-05-09 Container Hops Revisited - Basic Brewing Radio Don't have space to plant hops? Don't be too sure. Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, brings us up to date on his efforts to grow hops in containers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-29-09 German Techniques - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewer Kai Troester shares some tips and techniques he's found while researching German brewing. Also, we get an update on beer-related legislation across the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-22-09 Firestone Walker Vertical - Basic Brewing Radio Matt Brynildson, brewmaster at Firestone Walker Brewing, walks us through a vertical tasting of 10, 11 and 12. Matt talks about blending, wood aging, bottle aging and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-15-09 Fermenting in a Keg - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, tells us how to ferment in Corny kegs . . . and why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-08-09 Propane and Propane Accessory Safety - Basic Brewing Radio Bruce Swiecicki, senior technical advisor for the National Propane Gas Association, joins us to answer your questions about propane safety and getting the most out of your propane burner setup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-01-09 End of the Year Barleywine - Basic Brewing Radio Our first episode of the year features the last brewing session of 2008: a barleywine with James, Andy and Casey Letellier. Casey gives us his perspective on beer and brewing in England and the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-18-08 Pet Peeves - Basic Brewing Radio On the last episode of 2008, James and Steve help listeners air their frustrations with the remarks of the uninitiated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-11-08 Smoked Beers - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, tells us about smoked beers and how to make our own at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-04-08 Beer Blending Experiment - Basic Brewing Radio Michael Tonsmeire, The Mad Fermentationist, leads James, Steve, and Andy through an exercise of blending beers together to create better ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-27-08 Brett Pack Beer Dinner - Basic Brewing Radio We celebrate Thanksgiving week by remembering our beer dinner with the Brett Pack. Join James and Andy for dinner with Adam Avery, Vinnie Cilurzo, Rob Tod, Tomme Arthur, and Sam Calagione. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-20-08 Attenuation Experiments - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewer Kai Troester joins us again to take us through his extensive experiments on the factors affecting attenuation in the mash tun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-13-08 Building a Kegerator - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, give us tips on how to build our own kegerator at home. Chris also updates us on the world hop situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-06-08 GABF Grab Bag - Basic Brewing Radio A collection of short interviews from Denver: David Myers of Redstone Meadery, Pro-Am brewer David Schollmeyer, author Maureen Ogle, and Greg Koch of Stone Brewery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-30-08 Brewing Against the Grain - Basic Brewing Radio We talk to home brewers Vickie Watson and Ken Dollar from Mississippi, where home brewing is illegal. We also talk to Mazen Hajjar, owner of the first brewpub in Beirut, Lebanon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-23-08 Pro Brewers: Odell's and Great Divide - Basic Brewing Radio James and Andy get brewing tips from Jake O'Mara from Odell Brewing Company and Taylor Rees and Alan Johnson of Great Divide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-16-08 LongShot 2008 Winners - Basic Brewing Radio In our first episode back from the Great American Beer Festival, we talk to the winners and runners up in the Sam Adams LongShot competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-09-08 Late Season Hop Care and Listener E-mail - Basic Brewing Radio James and Andy sit on the deck, talk about how to take care of homegrown hops at the end of the season, and answer some listener e-mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-02-08 Brewer Profile: Steve Mazylewski, Hog Haus - Basic Brewing Radio Steve Mazylewski, brewer at The Hog Haus in Fayetteville, Arkansas, sits down with James and Steve to sample his Oktoberfest, Pumpkin Spice Ale and IPA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-25-08 ANHC and Rogue Harvest Ale - Basic Brewing Radio Andy Davison, chairman of the Australian National Homebrewing Conference, talks with us about preparations for their inaugural event. Also, Brett Joyce, president of Rogue tells us about their venture into growing hops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-18-08 Sour Mashing - Basic Brewing Radio Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, explains the process of sour mashing. Whether you're adjusting pH or making a sour beer, Chris says sour mashing is easy to do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-11-08 Understanding Attenuation - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewer Kai Troester explains the concept of attenuation, the factors that affect it and how we can test the attenuation potential of our wort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-04-08 Brewing Gadgets - Basic Brewing Radio Home brewer John Chubick of Bloomington, Illinois joins us to talk about his homebrew hop dryer, stir plate and temperature controller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-28-08 French Press Hopping - Basic Brewing Radio James and Andy try out one of the hop stretching methods explained by Chris Colby on the previous show: steeping hops in a French press coffee maker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 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 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 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-10-05 Basic Brewing Radio We finish our chat with Dave Logsdon of Wyeast as he answers listener questions. Also, we answer other questions from the mailbag and introduce our new T-shirts! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-26-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Bad Beer Tasting - Pt. 1 Andy Sparks, Steve Wilkes, and Chris Milum join James to take the FlavorActiv Enthusiast beer taste troubleshooting kit for a test run. The group tastes off flavors that could be found in homebrew and talks about how to prevent them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-19-06 Basic Brewing Radio - John Palmer on Lagering John Palmer, author of How to Brew, joins us to talk about lagering at home. John also defends his choice of aluminum for brewpots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-12-06 Basic Brewing Radio - A Six Pack of IPA James Spencer and Steve Wilkes brew an experimental six pack's worth of extract IPA on the stovetop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-05-06 Basic Brewing Radio - Hop Bitterness Ray Daniels, author of Designing Great Beers joins us to talk about hop bitterness and the factors in brewing that affect it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8-4-05 Basic Brewing Radio Mead Day is the topic. We talk to Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association and sample homemade meads on the porch with Steve Wilkes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-29-05 Basic Brewing Radio - Vienna Lagers Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine introduces us to Vienna Lagers and how to make them at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-22-05 Basic Brewing Radio - KGB Homebrew Club Homebrew clubs are the topic this episode as we talk to Brian Ellis of Kuykendahl Gran Brewers, a Houston homebrew club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-15-05 Basic Brewing Radio - Brewing Experiments and Wish Lists We try our first test with video as we taste the results of our small extract batch hopping experiment. We also taste three different batches of the same recipe and read holiday wish lists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-08-05 Basic Brewing Radio - Blind Mice Brew and All Grain Starter In this episode, we're invited to a big brew at the house of Casey from Siloam Springs. Also, Casey shows us how to make an all grain starter in a French press coffee maker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-01-05 Basic Brewing Radio - John Palmer on All Grain Pt. 2 We continue our conversation about all grain brewing with John Palmer, author of How to Brew. This week, we cover lautering and sparging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-24-05 Basic Brewing Radio - John Palmer on All Grain Pt. 1 John Palmer, Author of How to Brew joins us for the first half of a discussion of all grain brewing. We cover from milling to mashing this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-17-05 Basic Brewing Radio - Difficult Brews and Extract Tips Chris Colby from Brew Your Own magazine goes over his list of ten difficult beers to brew at home. Also, Bob Hansen from Briess Malt and Ingredients joins us with extract brewing tips. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-03-05 Basic Brewing Radio Our conversation continues with Dave Logsdon of Wyeast as we begin to answer questions from listeners on how to get the most out of yeast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9-1-05 Basic Brewing Radio Gerard Lemmens from Brewers Supply Group joins us to give us some background on hops and trends in the hop industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8-25-05 Basic Brewing Radio We talk to Bob Hansen from Briess Malt and Ingredients Company about how malt extract is made and how to buy the best extract and maintain its quality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8-11-05 Basic Brewing Radio We continue our chat with Paul Gatza of the Brewers Association to talk about the American Homebrewers Association and brewing in the USA. Also, we hear the story of a homebrewer who decided to go pro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8-18-05 Basic Brewing Radio We talk to Bob Hansen from Briess Malt and Ingredients Company about the malting process and about how specialty malts get their flavors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-27-05 Basic Brewing Radio This week, we begin our three-part series on yeast based on our conversation with Dave Logsdon of Wyeast. We talk to Dave about the history of Wyeast and single-stage vs. two-stage fermentation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-20-05 Basic Brewing Radio We talk kegging with Andy Sparks. Andy walks us through the process of using Cornelius Kegs to serve up our favorite brews. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Request for Yeast Questions I'm going to interview David Logsdon of Wyeast on Wednesday, so you can send your questions for David by Tuesday evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-13-05 Basic Brewing Radio We complete our coverage of the Great American Beer Festival by talking to Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing about American Wild Ales, David Myers of Redstone Meadery about mead, and Ray Daniels of the Brewers Association about Poor Richard's Ale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-6-05 Basic Brewing Radio We begin our coverage of the Great American Beer Festival with an overview of the event, an interview on how professionals evaluate hops, and a peek behind the scenes of Utopias from Samuel Adams with one of its brewers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9-29-05 Basic Brewing Radio Dr. Scott Herness of Ohio State University joins us to talk about the science of tasting and how that relates to beer. Also, we read listener mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9-22-05 Basic Brewing Radio We preview the Great American Beer Festival with Gary Glass of the Brewers Association. Also, we answer listener mail and get reaction from our sanitation show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9-15-05 Basic Brewing Radio Steve Wilkes joins us for our sanitation show as we discuss sanitizing brewing equipment and read listener input. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9-8-05 Basic Brewing Radio We continue our chat with Gerard Lemmens of Brewers Supply Group as he gives us practical tips on using hops in home brewing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-02-09 Brew in a Bag - Basic Brewing Radio Australian home brewers Dan Walker and Geoff Hammond explain the all grain technique of Brew in a Bag, which they advocate as a good way to get into brewing with grain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-09-09 BIAB Brew Session - Basic Brewing Radio James flies solo at the brewpot to test out the "Brew in a Bag" Australian technique of all grain brewing with a Maris Otter session ale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-16-10 Barrel Aging Update Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist, and Nathan Zeender continue their visit with an update on their barrel aged beers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website