

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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Mar 20, 2019 • 54min
03-21-19 DC Homebrewers SMASH
Omar Al-Nidawi shares beers from the DC Homebrewers Club experiment brewing different styles with Pilsner malt and Sterling hops.

Mar 13, 2019 • 60min
03-14-19 Scaling Up with Sapwood Cellars
Mad Fermentationist Michael Tonsmeire talks about the brewery he co-founded in Columbia, Maryland, and the challenges of scaling up from homebrew.

Mar 6, 2019 • 52min
03-07-19 Lab Testing HSBUs
David Curtis of Bell's General Store in Kalamazoo talks about Select Centennial Hops and shares lab IBU tests of beers brewed for the Hop Sampler series.

Feb 27, 2019 • 44min
02-28-19 Astarte Bronze-Age-Style Beer
Homebrewer AJ Hart took part in an experimental archeology project on bronze age brewing techniques in Cyprus and collaborated with her husband, Justin, to bring those ideas home.

Feb 20, 2019 • 33min
02-21-19 Chiller Stirring Experiment
Engineer Alex Roberts joins James again to test the effects on stirring a wort while it's being chilled by an immersion chiller. They also reverse the chiller's water flow.

Feb 13, 2019 • 42min
02-14-19 Golden Ale Yeast Experiment
Kyle Swallow of Twin Lakes Homebrew Club and Rapps Barren Brewing in Mountain Home, Arkansas, talks about an experiment fermenting one Golden Ale wort with 13 different yeasts.

Feb 6, 2019 • 46min
02-07-19 Year-Long Stout Collaboration
Homebrewer Chris McKenzie shares his experience collaborating with five other homebrewers in a year-long experiment to design the perfect stout.

Jan 30, 2019 • 49min
01-31-19 Hawk Moth Brewing
James talks to Bradley Riggs of Hawk Moth Brewing in Rogers, Arkansas - a brewery focused on small batch, old-world-style, wood-aged beers.

Jan 23, 2019 • 45min
01-24-19 Hop Sampler - Willamette, Amarillo, Falconer's Flight
James and Steve sample an old American standby against a relative newcomer and a hop blend.

Jan 16, 2019 • 41min
01-17-19 Monster Cereal Beer Roundup
We sample a batch of five monster cereal beers brewed from Frankenberry, Boo Berry and Count Chocula.


