basic brewing

This week, we have an assortment of sound from the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver. We talk to David Myers of Redstone Meadery, Tony Simmons of Pagosa Brewing and Vinnie Cilurzo from Russian River.

Our coverage of the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver continues with brewing tips from David Houseman and tasting tips from Lauren Salazar of New Belgium.

Home brewing clubs get to show off their brews and their creativity at the second night of the National Homebrewers Conference.

John Palmer, Rick Bobbitt and Scott Jackson talk about their experiment at the National Homebrewers Conference pairing beer styles with appropriate water chemistry.

Two chemistry professors, Bradley Sturgeon and Paul Charlesworth, join BBR veterans James Spencer, Andy Sparks, Steve Wilkes and Mark Smith to share the results of an experiment putting IBU prediction formulas through their paces.

We sample beers and talk to home brewers as they enjoy Pro Night at the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver.

Peter Bouckaert, brewmaster of New Belgium Brewery, addresses the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver and takes Charlie Papazian to task on beer styles.

Neva Parker, laboratory manager for White Labs yeast, explains her experiment putting three yeast strains through various temperatures and gravities.

We travel to Kansas City, Missouri to visit Boulevard Brewing Company and to see their brand-new brewhouse.

Chris Colby from Brew Your Own magazine walks us through the process of designing experiments in brewing to get accurate, useful results.

We talk with members of Fayetteville Lovers of Pure Suds about their fancy fermenters and why they moved up from carboys.

Two beers from one mash! James and Steve brew up a big beer and a small beer from the same grain.

Dan Carey, Brewmaster of New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, shares his tips on aging beer in oak chips and in oak barrels.

Gary Glass, Director of the American Homebrewers Association, joins us to talk about Big Brew, National Competition and National Conference.

James, Andy and Brian take a look around Great Divide Brewing in Denver, Colorado.

We read listener reviews of brewing software, and Andy Sparks talks about the Boulder Strong Ale Festival.

Chris Colby from Brew Your Own Magazine takes us behind the scenes with the two personalities of one of our favorite styles: English and American IPAs.

James and Steve taste a peachy mead and a porter made with vanilla beans. Also, Steve insults a South American navy.

Noted batch sparging advocate Denny Conn gives us his side of the batch/fly-sparging debate and answers listener questions and concerns about the process.

David Logsdon from Wyeast takes us through the life cycle of our favorite micoorganism and lets know how we can help our yeast thrive and make great beer.

Adam Avery takes us around Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado. James is joined by Andy Sparks of The Home Brewery to introduce the tour.

Charlie Talley of Five Star Chemicals tells us best practices in using household bleach and Star San in sanitizing equipment.

Murl Landman of National Chemicals talks to us about sanitization in general and using Iodophor specifically.

James and Steve taste the results of the mead yeast experiment after one month in the fermenters to see how the five yeast strains worked.

Steven Pauwels of Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri lets us in on home brewing tips as he talks about some adventurous brews he has planned.