Experimental Brewing

There's a whole slew of feedback today before we hit the beer news and run to the brewery to talk a Memorial Day event at Mecca Grade, new Yeast strains, how to actually say Kveik and make things with it and some additional dry hopping data points. And then we sit down with Marshall and talk about what we're going to be trying to teach at the BYO Bootcamp in Asheville in a month! Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny, Drew & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ (use code byobootcampexperimentalbrewing The Whole Great Lakes Brewing News Fiasco - https://thethirstywench.com/2019/02/12/the-hell-the-sexist-asinine-rambl... Bill Metzger to resign - https://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2019/02/14/brewing-news-co-owner-... Anchor Union Effort - https://splinternews.com/one-of-the-worlds-most-iconic-craft-breweries-i... Charlie Bamforth joins Sierra Nevada Brewing - https://mybeerbuzz.blogspot.com/2019/02/pope-of-foam-charlie-bamforth-jo... SS Oregon Shipwreck - yeast recovered for brewing - https://www.apne

The Brew is Out There! Last episode, everything was coming up gold. This week it's coming up pink as we explore what looks to be this year's hot trend - Rosé Beer. Drew sits down with pro-brewer/homebrewer Andy Ziskin about how he makes a Rosé beer that's dramatic, complex fruity, fun and not insipidly dull and sweet. Links Pink Drink Recipe - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/pink-drink 1 lb of Hibiscus Flowers - https://amzn.to/2TSEG06 Two Brew Tuesday - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgVdNirAuQBI1W4CYnhIDTb1bNcvktmpD This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewing) or Instagram (Ex

We've survived the PGPDF and are back and catching back up! We've got a whole slew of feedback, news stories, brew sessions, hop science, micro-resolutions (aka things we think we can do), a listener's brewing experience and... the juicy story of why you can buy Columbus, Tomahawk or Zeus in the hop freezer - sit back for a lesson in farm spying! Show note - ~34 minutes, Denny says "gypsum, chloride". He meant "gypsum, calcium chloride" Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny, Drew & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ (use code byobootcampexperimentalbrewing Flagship February - https://flagshipfebruary.com/ Widmer Shuts Down the Pub - https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2019/1/22/widmer-shutters-its-pub Medical Marijuana Not Impacting Booze Sales - https://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2019/01/10/despite-conflicting-ev... WildBrew Sour Pitch by Lallemand - http://www.lallemandbrewing.com/en/canada/product-details/wildbrew-sour-... Schellhammer's Dry Hop Science - https://patspints.com/2019/01/16/th

The Brew is Out There! In the world of responses to Pilsner, the Belgians really nailed it with their Belgian Strong Goldens and Tripels. But what makes them different? Drew breaks down the styles with sample recipes and tries to answer the tasty conundrum that is the BSG/Tripel split Recipes Westcoastmalle Tripel: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/westcoastmalle-tripel Hobo Devil: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/hobo-devil This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewing) or Instagram (ExperimentalBrewing). Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreo

It's finally happened! Denny and Drew have simultaneously been felled by the specter of Peruvian Guinea Pig Death Flu! In light of our incapcitation, we offer you these choice revists to topics we're still talking about today! Don't fret - episode 86 is being prepped and should be a grand return to form! Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny, Drew & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing Experimental Brew Store - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/store Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Opening & Our Sponsors 00:02:59 Announcements 00:04:24 The Lab: Grain Age Impact on Brewing 00:18:13 The Lab 2: Whirlpool Hopping Experiment with Short Circuited Brewers 00:50:06 Lounge: Yeast Genetics with Sui Generis This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association BrewCraft USA Brewing America Craftmeister Jaded Brewing Mecca Grade Estate Malt PicoBrew Wyeast Labs YCH Hops Interested in helpi

The Brew is Out There! In every beer lovers curve of beer love, there comes a moment when they discover the world of smoked beers. Drew sits down with Devon Randall of Imperial Western Beer Company to discuss her approach to making both subtle and in your face smoked beers! Devon's Smoke Guidelines: Subtle: 3-5% Balanced: 6-15% OVert: 16-100% This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewing) or Instagram (ExperimentalBrewing). Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/

There are a great many questions in the universe - why are we here? What are we doing? What the hell just happened with my beer?!? We'll tackle that last category, because we're terrible at moral philosophy! Sit back, it's time for a dive through a bunch of questions! Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny, Drew & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing Experimental Brew Store - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/store Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Opening & Our Sponsors 00:03:03 Announcements & Feedback 00:06:16 General Questions 00:22:59 Ingredient Questions 00:47:29 Process Questions 01:06:08 Recipe Questions 01:28:28 Yeast Questions This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association BrewCraft USA Brewing America Craftmeister Jaded Brewing Mecca Grade Estate Malt PicoBrew Wyeast Labs YCH Hops Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experime

The Brew is Out There! It's officially been two years of Brew Files! (Ok, fine, two more days - the first episode dropped on Jan 11th, 2017) That puts me in the mood to talk Anniversaries and with my local, Eagle Rock Brewery, hitting their 9th Anniversary, I sat down with Jeremy Raub to talk about designing an Anniversary beer and the new and interesting uses they're finding for Amlyase enzymes - it's not just for Brut IPA's anymore! Don't forget you can join ERB on Jan 26th at Noon to taste Plan 9 and all their delicious beers! Tickets: https://eaglerockbrewery.mycloveronline.com/products/WBHKNNJ9F2D72/9-yea... This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Fo

Happy New Beer! We kick off the new year with a look at how the folks at We Love LB and the Long Beach Homebrewers are using homebrew to build a better neighborhood. First we'll talk to Scott Jones, the executive director of We Love LB about his mission to strengthen his community and how beer helps and then we talk to Neil Ian Horowitz of the Long Beach Homebrewers about how the club got involved and what beer he provided to the festivities. It's an interesting model that we think can be duplicated around the world! But first we've got to take your feedback, cover the beer news including what the shutdown means for beer and Teri Farendorf's take on the "Inebriation" Industry, some foundational numbers and calculations and our favorite brewing experiences of the past year. Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny, Drew & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Teri's Ineberiation Beverage Industry Take - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215500464437200&set=a.10202073... The TTB Shutdown and What It Me

The Brew is Out There! New Years is right around the corner which means so is the era of Resolutions. The most common resolution for brewers? I'm going to brew more! It's also one of the most failed. We're here to give you our tips for fighting the forces that stymie you so you can get back to what we all love - brewing! This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewing) or Instagram (ExperimentalBrewing). Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: ht

Just in time for Christmas and the new year, Drew sits down with John Holl of Craft Beer & Brewing to talk about his new book - Drink Beer, Think Beer. We talk where the industry is and why John's hope for the future isn't a very popular one. But first we've got to tkae your feedback, cover the beer news - including a controversial take on IPA's drinkers, and then cover Denny's gluten free brewing antics, Drew's rat attack and a new way to egg. Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny, Drew & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Wendy Jenning's Cancer Fight - https://www.gofundme.com/kickin039-cancers-butt-with-wendy Has Jeff Tweedy become Denny Conn? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz2v2Ix7FwE" A New Breed of IPA Drinker - http://digitaleditions.walsworthprintgroup.com/publication/frame.php?i=5... Farmhouse Manifesto from Scratch Brewing - https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2018/11/19/keeping-the-farm-in-farm... Charlie P brewing with Smithsonian Hops - https://www.craftbeer.com/craft-beer-muses/smi

The Brew is Out There! We asked our listeners to challenge us - give us a beer idea you want us to design and prepare to make. Out of the pile of suggestions we each chose one recipe to challenge the other with. In this inaugural challenge, we only find out what recipe we're supposed to formulate right then. Listen to us walk you through how we'd tackle these challenges. And congrats to Aaron Kennison and Eric Pierce who'll be receiving a half pound of Yakima Chief Hops' Veteran's Blend! Links Beet Saison - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/challenge-beer-beet-saison Rye Lager - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/challenge-beer-hoppy-rye-lager This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop

After our adventures down in Australia, it's time to get local again with Ten Mile Brewing in Signal Hill, California. Drew sits down with Dan Sundstrom to talk how the brewer got started and why they have a focus on tradition including their attempts to bring the Kentucky Common to California. But first we've got to cover the bad beer news and some brewing for a good cause news before we borrow a quick tip from Chino and a quick tip of a book series that Drew now has to wait to be finished. Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Accusations Against Trillium - https://thetakeout.com/trillium-brewery-beer-scandal-accusations-explain... 7k Breweries and Counting - https://www.craftbeer.com/editors-picks/u-s-breweries-hit-new-milestone Sierra Nevad Resilience Butte County Proud IPA Brewery List - https://sierranevada.com/resilience-butte-county-proud-ipa Resilience Homebrew Recipe - https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/sierra-nevada-res... Golden

The Brew is Out There! Time makes fools of us all and lays bare the emptiness of our plans, but it doesn't have to! Denny and Drew sit down and talk about seasonality - both historical and taste and help plan out a general timeline you can use to brew beers for a specific date! Links Homebrewing.com's Sample Brew Calendar: http://www.homebrewing.com/images/home-brewing-calendar-l.pdf This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Brewing America Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewing) or Instagram (ExperimentalBrewing). Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded d

Last call in Australia! On our final night in Sydney, we did a presentation at Batch Brewing Company. After 1100 kilometers of driving and not killing each other - Denny and Drew enjoyed meeting a healthy gathering of local homebrewers. After the talk, Drew sat down with Chris Sidwa of Batch Brewing Company. Together they talk how a Jersey kid ended up surviving a company crash overseas and turned it into his dream of owning a brewery and the steps he takes to ensure he's doing good for the beer and his people. Naturally we also talk beer news, some more explanation of the brew experiment from Australia, q and a, tips and something other in this very Aussie themed show! Episode Links: BYO Boot Camp with Denny & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Utah's New Testing Rule for Beer - https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/11/10/yet-another-new-rule-utah/ Pete Brown's Take on ABI's "Relaunch" of Bass Ale - https://www.petebrown.net/2018/11/12/bass-ale-is-back-i-wish-i-was-more-... Batch Brewing Company - http://www

The Brew is Out There! We know that we need good yeast to make great beer and we need to treat them right. Somehow we've managed to go through 48 episodes of this show without talking methods of treating your yeast right. On this show, we'll walk through how we used to do things and why we changed and Denny will even challenge Drew to get uncomfortable! Links Omega's Propper Starter - https://propperstarter.com/ MB Raine's Yeast Principles Guide - https://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/yeast-propagation-and-maintenance-pr... Presto 23 Quart Pressure Canner - https://amzn.to/2z0KwnC Drew's Pressure Canned Starter Wort - https://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/starter-made-easy-pressure-cooking-y... This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc,

We'd be planning it for two years, but we finally made it to Australia! We spoke at the Australian National Homebrewers Conference (link below) and recorded this live session of the podcast! In this episode we talk to the organizers of the conference Andy and John. We talk to Peter Symons and the winner of the Australian Amateur Brewing Championship Barry Cranston. We chat with Dr. Evan Evans about why beer glasses matter and finally we close up with a beer experiment with Helen Hewson and we'll see how our crowd does with a triangle test! (And you'll hear us talk about a technique that we haven't tried but need to!) Episode Links: Australian National Homebrewers Conference (10/25-10/27) - https://www.anhc.com.au BYO Boot Camp with Denny & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Nowzad - https://www.nowzad.com/ Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing Experimental Brew Store - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/store Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Opening 00:0

The Brew is Out There! As the weather turns colder and the nights are spookier, our thoughts turn to stronger beers and what better way to get a stronger beer than to take advantage of the cold. So let's get cold and freeze our beer to make the smoothest strong beer you can. It's time to get really frosty. Links This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewing) or Instagram (ExperimentalBrewing). Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.expe

Episode Links: Australian National Homebrewers Conference (10/25-10/27) - https://www.anhc.com.au Sydney Meetup at Batch Brewing (Tues 10/30) - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sydney BYO Boot Camp with Denny & Marshall - http://byobootcamp.com/ Russian River Opening - https://russianriverbrewing.com/windsor-location/ Toolbox Brewing - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo19i59ANBu/ Craft Beer's Economic Impact in San Diego - http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/beer/sd-me-beer-impact... Big Beer Pushing Independents Out of Publix - https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/Florida-craft-beer-guild-B... Long Beach Beer Lab - https://lbbeer.com/ The Good Place The Podcast - https://art19.com/shows/the-good-place-the-podcast Nowzad - https://www.nowzad.com/ Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing Experimental Brew Store - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/store Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Opening & Our Sponsors 00:03:36 Announcements &

The Brew is Out There! One of our favorite yeast people is back and he's got big news! Nick Impelitteri is going full time and moving to Beervana - aka Portland - aka the new "Bay" City? In addition we talk about new toys he's bringing to bear including a nectar loving critter that might change how you experience hops. Links The Yeast Bay: https://www.theyeastbay.com/ Lithuanian Farmhouse Strain: https://www.theyeastbay.com/beta-release-cultures/simonaitis-lithuanian-... Metschnikowia reukaufii: http://www.westerdijkinstitute.nl/collections/BioloMICS.aspx?Table=Yeast... This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association Brewers Publications Atlantic Brew Supply (Discount Code: BrewFiles) Don't forget to subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalBrew), Twitter (@ExpBrewin