Strike Mash Boil

Joe and Phil take a break from a brew day to quickly talk through how they developed a clone recipe for Night Shift Brewing's Bee Tea and give you some tips on how to clone your favorite beer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marco & Phil get together to talk about how things went in Season 1, what worked and didn't work, which beer scored the highest in Judging and what's next in Season 2. AND - We have a SMB version of Mean Tweets! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt and Erika, hosts of the Brew Roots Podcast join us for the second edition of BrewRequisites - A Show Dedicated to lesser brewed classic styles - And this week, it's all things Hefeweizen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Switzer, Karl join Marco and Phil in talking about how you can Barrel Age clean or sour beers at home. Mr Matt Savage Judges our FIRST Double IPA. How'd our submitter do? Lastly, PJ of Navigation Brewing is back in the virtual studio to tell us what is next for them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Part 3 on the perfect NEPA, Czech Pale Lager & Navigation Brewing See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Hop It To Me is Part 2 of our deep dive into building the perfect New England Pale Ale recipe. Mr Matt Savage is back to judge a Czech Amber Lager. And, Justin from Channel Marker Brewing joins us to talk about their Gummy Fish Sour Beer and what is next for Channel Marker Brewing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We kick off the show with our first edition of "Hop it to Me" - our new segment all about Hops and IPAs. For this first round, we dig into the humble New England Pale Ale. Nick joins us to Judge a Spiced American Porter and we talk the importance of nailing the base style before adding spices. And, Justin Negrotti of Channel Marker Brewing tells us how he went from a Home Brewer in our club to fou...

Nick, Tim, Marco and Phil run through their favorite 3 brewing books give you a list of 12 books! And, Nick judges one of the harder styles to nail, a Kölsch. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Switzer and Karl give the history of Smoked Beer and talk through how you can get started smoking your own malt. Matt judges an Imperial Stout. And, we finish the conversation with Matt about how he went about starting our Home Brew Club. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We decide to see how much we can trigger Marco.... First we talk about this bizarre new "style" from the Pacific Northwest called "Cold IPA".... which we learn is really just an IPL and we put some breweries on Notice. Next we judge a Rice Krispie Treat Lager. Will Marco make it through? Will he like it? Or will he bail and quit the segment on us while throwing a chair? Lastly we are joined by the...

Episode 13 - Mr Lactose Strikes Back Turmoil has engulfed the Beer galaxy. Thousands of Brewers have declared their intentions to leave the behind brewing traditional beers.  Under the leadership of Mr Lactose, this separatist movement brewing fruited kettle sours threatens to challenge the peace and order of the Galaxy.  General Marco, leader of the Resistance, has secretly dispatched h...

Phil gets to the bottom of how Marco brews 6 beers at once. The Doc judges our first listener submission, a Wild Specialty Beer. Lastly, Brett Bauer is back to finish the conversation into his journey as a brewer. Brett was previously the lead brewer at one of our favorite local breweries here in MA, Idle Hands. Idle Hands is a well known for it's Belgian beers, German lagers and now more and more...

We have our first ever Beer-Off episode and we've picked the classic style of English Bitter, which is BJCP Category 11. In this show we'll talk about the style, taste 3 Commercial Examples and Nick and Phil put up their Home Brewed versions to compare. We'll talk about what works and doesn't work, but mostly explain you why it is so satisfying to get out of your beer brewing/drinking comfort zone...

Marco and Phil talk about Real Ale, Casks and Beer Engines for the Home Brewer and Hopefully don’t piss off any Real Ale Purists.  The Doc judges a Gruit, and tells us what exactly a Gruit is.  Lastly, Brett Bauer joins us to talk his journey as a brewer. Brett was previously the lead brewer at one of our favorite local breweries here in MA, Idle Hands. Idle Hands is a well known for it'...

EPISODE 9 - The Rise of Mr Lactose Beer for People who Don’t Like the Taste of Beer Reigns. Having decimated the scores of traditional beers, Hipster Breweries now deploy their merciless legions of copycat Adjunct Pastry Stouts, Milkshake IPAs and Fruited Sours to seize control of the Brewing Galaxy. Only General Marco's band of RESISTANCE Brewers stand against the rising adjunct tyranny, certain...

Dana, Shawn and Phil give us their thoughts on their new single vessel brewing systems. Dana Judges a Munich Helles but doesn't know we've given him one from the oldest brewery on earth, how will he score it? Lastly we'll dig into the benefits of Collaborating with other brewers and give some tips on how to make your next brewing collab successful. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out inf...

The Club's Board (and Phil who isn't a board member) get together for a 2020 Year in Review and how we turned a generally trash year into a pretty solid one. Then we talk goals for 2021 - what are our plans and how will we resurrect the Pre-COVID home brewing social world when all this freakin' finally blows over. And The Doc is here to Judge an American Porter and we talk the differences (or lack...

Patrick and Stephen join us to talk the benefits of joining a Homebrew Club. The Doctor judges a German Pils that is suffering from Acetaldehyde. We'll walk through how to identify it and what to do to avoid it. Lastly, Stephen is still torqued on cider... we finish last week's intro discussion into home brewing cider. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick and Stephen join us in a Rant Session about good breweries making shit beer. The Doctor is back to judge a Festbier and we'll talk some techniques to brew a lager without all the fancy gadgets. Lastly, Stephen is going to talk some basics of brewing hard cider from juice/cider sourcing to yeast selections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dana is back and joined by Shawn. We talk all the good and bad of Christmas Beers and what we like to brew. Dana Judges a Belgian Wit.... but there's a twist - It isn't a Homebrew... Lastly, We walk you through our Club's Annual Homebrew Advent Calendar giving you the details on how to set one up for yourself - along with a few things we've learned not to do to save you the trouble. See acast.com/...

TJ & the Doctor join Marco and Phil to give their recommendations on Christmas Gifts for the Home Brewer. We go through our lists of top 3 gifts under $100 and top splurge gift over $100. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

TJ, The Doctor & Switzer are back. We talk about our club's quarterly Dry Week. The Doctor & TJ judge a Berry Mead and talk about what you should expect when submitting meads to competitions. Lastly, Switzer finishes the story of Viking Luau - Homebrew Con 2019, brewing a commercial batch at Melvin, and the public release of Viking Luau. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out inform...

TJ leads a roundtable rant on Yuengling's recent news. The Doctor is back and judges a Belgian Tripel and tells us about Garbage Fruit Salad. Lastly, Switzer joins us to talk about Viking Luau, a Kveik IPA from back before Kveik IPAs were a thing. He'll walk through how he came up with the concept in 2018, the recipe development and then discuss the submission to the Boil Rumble Competition at Hom...

In our Pilot Episode, the crew gets together for the first time to record a Podcast. We kick the show off with Dana judging a home brew Czech Premium Pale Lager. Then we have a bit of a rant about Stone Brewing. Lastly, the club's resident BJCP National Judge, Nick (The Doctor), joins us to give a few pointers about how to maximize your success in a home brew competition. See acast.com/privacy for...

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