At Basic Brewing Radio, we're all about home brewing. Each week, we hope to bring to you interesting interviews with people who can shed light on the hobby, share an interesting story, or give expert advice to help us all become better home brewers.
We plan to make each show short and to the point, because we know how precious your time (and bandwidth) can be.
July 18, 2019 - Insane in the Yeast Strain
Casey Helwig from Imperial Organic Yeast leads James and Steve through two split-wort experiments at Homebrew Con that compare six different yeasts.
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July 11, 2019 - RIBS NEIPA Yeast Experiment
Members of the Rhode Island Brewing Society share their experiment comparing six different yeast strains in New England IPAs.
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July 4, 2019 - Club Night in Providence, Rhode Island
James and Steve explore Homebrew Con's incredible night of delicious brews and creative brewers.
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May 30, 2019 - Hop Sampler - Saaz, Cashmere, Green Bullet
James and Steve add a bonus round to the hop sampler as they taste three hops that you'd think would be easy to pick out.
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May 23, 2019 - Stouts vs Porters
Chris Colby of Beer and Wine Journal explores our favorite dark beers and gives us recipe tips. Also, Gary Glass of the AHA shares a homebrew legislation update.
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May 16, 2019 - Tulsa Craft Beer Invitational
We travel to the parking lot of High Gravity (Pippin's Taproom) to sample from commercial breweries and homebrewers across Oklahoma.
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May 9, 2019 - African Guest Sampler
Homebrewer Steve Frank submits our first guest Hop Sampler ever, featuring African Queen, Southern Aroma, Southern Passion and Sabro.
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May 2, 2019 - Core Homecoming
Homebrewer and alumnus of Basic Brewing Radio, Jamie Conway, joins the team at Core Brewing, where they're refocusing their company's priorities.
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April 25, 2019 - Hop Sampler - Galena, Denali, El Dorado
It's Hop Sampler number nine, pitting three nicely fruity hop varieties against each other.
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April 18, 2019 - Kombucha, the Root of All Starters
Homebrewer Doug Wawrzynski tells us how he's using kombucha to kick-start sour fermentations, such as sauerkraut, sourdough and kettle-soured beers.
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April 11, 2019 - Sparrow Malting
Brad Coker is starting up a new craft malthouse in northwest Arkansas. He shares his techniques of malting small batches of grain at home.
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April 4, 2019 - Catching Up with Fossil Cove
James samples beers with Ben Mills of Fossil Cove Brewing in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and learns about the brewery's recent expansion.
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March 28, 2019 - Hop Sampler - Motueka, Rakau, Nelson Sauvin
James and Steve sample hops from New Zealand and ponder about the lack of foam on this batch of beers.
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March 21, 2019 - DC Homebrewers SMASH
Omar Al-Nidawi shares beers from the DC Homebrewers Club experiment brewing different styles with Pilsner malt and Sterling hops.
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March 14, 2019 - 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.
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March 7, 2019 - 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.
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February 28, 2019 - 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.
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February 21, 2019 - 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.
- Alex's graphs of the results, courtesy of Applied Dynamics Engineering Group.
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February 14, 2019 - 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.
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February 7, 2019 - 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.
- Chris' blog detailing the experiment
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January 31, 2019 - 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.
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January 24, 2019 - Hop Sampler - Willamette, Amarillo, Falconer's Flight
James and Steve sample an old American standby against a relative newcomer and a hop blend.
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January 17, 2019 - Monster Cereal Beer Roundup
We sample a batch of five monster cereal beers brewed from Frankenberry, Boo Berry and Count Chocula.
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January 10, 2019 - Mead Yeast Sampler - US-05, S-33, BE-134
Steve splits a batch of mead and pitches three different dry beer yeasts to test the effects of each.
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January 3, 2019 - Ivory Bill Brewing
We visit Ivory Bill Brewing in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where long-time friend of the podcast, Casey Letellier, and his partner, Dorothy Hall, are serving up delicious open-fermented, gluten-reduced, English-inspired beers.
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