
Basic Brewing Radio
Basic Brewing Radio is a weekly chat about homebrewing - brewing the best beer and mead in the world in your own home.
Latest episodes

Dec 29, 2021 • 1h 59min
12-30-21 - Annual Disaster Show
It's the longest one ever! James and Steve sit on the porch and read a stack of stories about brewing gone wrong sent in by listeners from around the world.

Dec 8, 2021 • 45min
12-09-21 - Juleol
Chris Colby, author of How to Make Hard Seltzer and the Homebrew Recipe Bible, talks about traditional Christmas beers from Norway.

Dec 1, 2021 • 52min
12-02-21 - Beer Yeast Sampler
James and Steve compare beers made with Active Dry and Rapid Rise bread yeast against one made with US-05.

Nov 17, 2021 • 58min
11-18-21 - U. S. Open Beer Championship
Dow Scoggins and Michael Conger from the U. S. Open Beer Championship talk about their competition and give a bit of advice for competing and judging.

Nov 10, 2021 • 54min
11-11-21 - Expanding Crisis
Sean Slape of Crisis Brewing Company catches us up on his work to expand his once tiny brewery into a successful small brewery through brewing delicious beers.

Nov 3, 2021 • 53min
11-04-21 - Mountain Fork Brewery
Johann the Brewer from Mountain Fork Brewery talks about brewing traditionally-inspired beers with river water in southeastern Oklahoma.

Oct 27, 2021 • 57min
10-28-21 - Space Yeast Mead
Dan Schreffler of Space Time Mead and Cider Works shares a mead made with yeast sent to the edge of space along with three other delicious meads.

Oct 20, 2021 • 58min
10-21-21 - Building a "Perfect" Keezer
Matt Giovanisci of the Brew Cabin YouTube channel walks us through how he built a keezer that is ideal for his home brewery.

Oct 13, 2021 • 55min
10-14-21 - Partigyle Techniques
Peter Symons, author of Guile Brews, talks about the process of using brewing software to design partigyle beers.

Oct 6, 2021 • 57min
10-07-21 - Hatch Wit and Steve's Shop
Steve shares a Belgian Wit chili pepper experiment and sums up his time as owner of Steve's Brew Shop.