
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

Jan 24, 2024 • 56min
01-25-24 - Mash Your Luck, Anglo Imperial Lager
Homebrewer Scott Housel helps James evaluate the Mash Your Luck beer from Adam Ross of Twin Span Brewing - a UK-inspired high gravity lager.

Jan 17, 2024 • 1h
01-18-24 - Pink Dry Hopping Experiment
James and Steve taste an experiment comparing dry hops floating on top of and sunk into a pale ale.

Jan 10, 2024 • 44min
01-11-24 - Formal Brewing Education
James talks to Andrew Burns of Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota about his course to bring homebrewers to the professional level.

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 9min
01-04-24 - Moist January
James and Steve sit down with Desiree and Dave from High Gravity in Tulsa to sip delicious beers and talk homebrew past, present, and future.

Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 56min
12-28-23 - Brewing Disasters
James and Steve delve into stories of brewing gone wrong from homebrewers from around the world and sample tasty homebrew from Scott Housel.

Dec 20, 2023 • 53min
12-21-23 - Saison Variations
Homebrewer Scott Housel shares five beers created from a single base saison with James and Adam Ross of Twin Span Brewing.

Dec 13, 2023 • 57min
12-14-23 - Recipe Development, Oat Malt Stout
James and Chris Colby are joined by beer author and historian Peter Symons to evaluate the Pre-prohibition American Lager from a previous episode and formulate a Stout using malted oats.

Dec 6, 2023 • 44min
12-07-23 - Flyway Fayetteville
James and Steve visit with Kort Castleberry, who is now head brewer at New Province Brewing and Flyway Brewing's new Fayetteville, Arkansas, location about his dual responsibilities.

Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 10min
11-30-23 - Recipe Development, Holiday Ale
Special guest Josh Secaur from Gambit Brewing in St. Paul joins James and Matt to compare Kentucky Commons and help formulate a Winter Ale recipe.

Nov 15, 2023 • 48min
11-16-23 - Hop Sampler - EKG vs Fuggle
James and Steve pit two traditional English favorite hops against each other and then blend them to see how they pair together. They also taste a listener-brewed beer with "Pink" hops.
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