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.
Episodes
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Jan 28, 2010 • 52min
01-28-10 Homebrew Club Sites and Legislation Update - Basic Brewing Radio
Ryan Thompson-Jewell walks us through some tips on creating or improving homebrew club Web sites. Also, Gary Glass, director of the AHA, brings us up-to-date on homebrew legislation.
Jan 21, 2010 • 56min
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.
Jan 14, 2010 • 39min
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.
Jan 7, 2010 • 54min
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.
Dec 31, 2009 • 40min
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.
Dec 17, 2009 • 49min
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.
Dec 10, 2009 • 48min
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.
Dec 3, 2009 • 49min
12-03-09 Making the Most of Mr. Beer - Basic Brewing Radio
Derrick Johnson of MrBeerFans.com shares advice on how Mr. Beer brewers should up their game. Also, listener feedback on pumpkin beers.
Nov 26, 2009 • 42min
11-26-09 Pumpkin Beer Experiment - Basic Brewing Radio
Does pumpkin really make an impact on beer flavor? Home brewers Joel Neal and Phil Saylor share the results of their pumpkin beer experiment.
Nov 19, 2009 • 52min
11-19-09 Solar Brewing - Basic Brewing Radio
Joe Bair of Princeton Homebrew talks about his groundbreaking experiments in using the heat of the sun to brew beer.
