Basic Brewing Radio

Mead man Tim Leber leads James and Steve through an experiment comparing American, French and Hungarian Oak in a simple mead.

James and some old friends join Rose Schweikhart in the Beer Park next to Superior Bathhouse Brewery to sample beers in a National Park.

Chris Colby of beerandgardeningjournal.com walks James through the process of formulating a recipe for a spiced holiday beer.

James and Steve sample a dark beer flavored with tinctures of five different flavors you probably don't associate with dark beers.

James and Matt Giovanisci of Brew Cabin taste Matt's American Amber Ale and collaborate on an unconventional Belgian Witbier recipe.

James and Steve head to the parking lot of High Gravity Fermentations to sample beers at the Tulsa Craft Beer Invitational.

Brian Welzbacher, Oklahoma beer historian, talks about the challenging history of beer and brewing in the Sooner State.

Chris Colby, author of The Homebrew Recipe Bible and Methods of Modern Homebrewing, walks us through formulating a recipe for a delicious dark beer.

Sherwin Santiano of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Center, who trains professional maltsters, gives us tips on malting our own barley at home.

Ricky the Meadmaker of Groennfell and Havoc meaderies joins James and Steve on Mead Day Eve to chat about their favorite honey beverages.

We continue our conversation with Malcolm Frazer of Hop Farm Brewing in Pittsburgh with two English Milds and a NEIPA.

Malcolm Frazer and Melissa Larrick from Hop Farm Brewing in Pittsburgh lead us through a delicious flight of lighter colored beers.

Matt Jannett of Fenn Valley Vineyards talks about his life as a winemaker and a recent experience judging a cider competition.

We hit the floor (not literally) at Homebrew Con Club Night in Pittsburgh to try delicious traditional and not-so-traditional beers and meads.

We join Dr. Matt Winans of Imperial Organic Yeast R and D at Homebrew Con in Pittsburgh to talk making sake at home and Imperial's work to combine different yeast strains into a new one.

Matt Giovanisci joins James to collaborate on formulating a recipe from scratch for a hoppy American favorite.

We head to Pittsburgh for Homebrew Con and collect a series of fun and informative interviews from day one of the conference.

North American transplants David Shotlander and Jonathan Klassen talk about brewing in Gland, Switzerland and taking their brewery to the next level.

We head to Charlotte, North Carolina, to celebrate the first anniversary of Vaulted Oak Brewing with brewer David Carey and co-founder Kiel Arrington.

James and Steve go dark as they test tinctures of toasted coconut, mint, and wild blueberries in a darker beer.