

Basic Brewing Radio
James Spencer
Basic Brewing Radio is a weekly chat about homebrewing - brewing the best beer and mead in the world in your own home.
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Feb 26, 2020 • 50min
02-27-20 Fort Smith Brewing Company
James travels to the old Fort Chaffee Army base that has a rock 'n roll history and talks to brewer Quintin Willard about his beers and Arkansas Craft Beer Week.

Feb 19, 2020 • 36min
02-20-20 Hop Sampler - Sterling, Triumph, Horizon
Steve and James sample another round of single-hopped small batches, adding some time in the boil to the recipe.

Feb 12, 2020 • 49min
02-13-20 Count Chocula Experiment
Homebrewers Adam Amdor and Roy Ventullo share their experiment comparing milk stouts with and without Count Chocula cereal and one beer with cereal added into the fermenter post fermentation.

Feb 5, 2020 • 53min
02-06-20 Whistling Springs Brewing
In the second part of a chat with brewer Chris Nogy, James samples beers from Whistling Springs in southern Missouri.

Jan 29, 2020 • 39min
01-30-20 Hop Stand Length Experiment
James and Steve test the results of an experiment comparing different hop stand lengths in the Hop Sampler recipe.

Jan 22, 2020 • 49min
01-23-20 Dark Hills Gluten Free Brewery
Chris Nogy of Dark Hills Brewery talks about brewing gluten free beers on a farm in southern Missouri.

Jan 15, 2020 • 51min
01-16-20 Dry Hopping Hazy Pale Ales
Scott Janish of Sapwood Cellars and author of The New IPA – A Scientific Guide to Hop Aroma and Flavor gives us tips on dry hopping delicious hazy beers.

Jan 8, 2020 • 50min
01-09-20 Wine for Beer Lovers
Jim Laughren, author of A Beer Drinker's Guide to Knowing and Enjoying Fine Wine, gives us beer folks some tips on demystifying the wine side.

Jan 1, 2020 • 55min
01-02-20 Granola Bar Experiment
Brook Baber and Dave Bauter share their nine-part experiment using three different flavors of granola bar to brew beer.

Dec 18, 2019 • 1h 4min
12-19-19 Annual Disaster Show
James and Steve get together to read 20 letters of brewing woe submitted by listeners.