Michigan Brews

In the next part of our "Running a Homebrew Competition" series, we're going to be talking software.  Specifically, we're going to be talking about BCOE&M and why it's our preferred software to use. Join us at the usual time!

We've been wanting to do a series on running a homebrew competition for a while now, and March seems like a great time to start!  Mostly because we're all finally not sick... We'll see you at our normal time, but on Wednesday!

With a new year ahead of us (and us largely missing our 2024 goals) we’re looking to organize a large part of our 2025 streaming schedule and will be brainstorming on new segments (or even new shows!) for the future.

It's our 5 year Friendsgiving Anniversary!  Well that's wild...   Grab your favorite hard seltzers and join us for a virtual party!  If you want to be on stream with us let us know!

BIG CARAMEL MALT FEELINGS!   That aside, should be a full house!  We'll see you for some homebrew banter and drinks!   Cheers!

It's been a busy few months but we're still around!  Jason picked up some beer to talk about and we'll touch on other bits and pieces from the past month or so.   Cheers!

Join us and reminisce of a weekend that passed by way too quickly!

June, July, and August tend to be our crazy months.  Between the Michigan Beer Cup, Michigan Homebrew Festival, meetings for 3-4 different homebrew clubs, plus personal brewing projects time just slips away!   Join us as we relax for a night.  We'll talk about the Michigan Beer Cup sorting, and give some shout outs to MBC sponsors.  And just random chatter otherwise.   Cheers!

Just a laid back show this week.  We'll touch on things we're looking to bring out to MHF, things we're looking forward to trying, touching on the new Michigan Beer Cup High Gravity Award, and whatever else comes along!

Just how important is great water for making a great beer?  Does the old adage, "if it's good enough to drink it's good enough to brew with" hold true? Join us, with special guest and resident chemicalangelist, "The Mole Man" himself, David Jones. Cheers! an" himself, David Jones. Cheers!

Join Jason and Brian with special guest Tim Wicklund as they discuss the somewhat more advanced world of blending beer, mead, and cider. 

Join us as we blind test 10 beers that fall into the International Pale Lager BJCP category, as well as an additional surprise beer!  We'll be joined by Ted, owner and brewer at Brewery Outré in Kalamazoo, MI. We're testing some "on the go" audio equipment in this episode for the first time, fingers crossed! Cheers!

Jason wants to make a mead, maybe one with lemons.   He really has no clue what he's doing, so we are going to discuss and design a mead recipe with some folks that can help.   Hang out and have a brew with us as we talk through the mead making process.  Whatever we come up with, Jason is going to take away and brew!

Way back in the dark days of episode 101 we individually ran the Keepers of Craft beer generator to come up with 3 unique(ish) recipes.  Deciding to go for what amounted to be an Imperial Kölsch-style beer, we then drafted a recipe for it, brewed it, and now we're drinking it tonight!   Join us to hear how the beer turned out, future plans for it, and general show talk.  

Ok, so we didn't actually buy Hamms for the show (sorry!), but Jason had some Budweiser... Join us for a chat about Michigan Beer Cup updates, Imperial Kolsch (!) updates, upcoming shows, and just a general chatty evening. Cheers!

From fruits, to spices, to whole pies, there's no end of what you can use to add interesting and innovative flavors to beer.  Come have a beer while we talk about all of our favorite ways to flavor beers, talk about do's (and dont's), and banter a bit in between.  Cheers!

Happy New Year!  Come hang out and have a beer while we talk about some of the "fun" homebrew competitions we have participated in the past like cookie beer, cereal beer, or fantasy beer draft comp.   We are also going to be playing with the "Beer Generator" which is an app that Brian created to help generate fun / weird beer recipe ideas.  We are getting ready to launch the second Beer Generator...

Its finally time for Episode 100! And what better way to commemorate the milestone than to get together with friends online, remanence about the year, share stories, and slam seltzers!   In past Friendsgiving shows, we have invited anyone that has participated in past shows to drop in, hang out for a few, and enjoy a beverage or two.  So if you have ever been on the show, or you just enjoy watchin...

So....It's been a while.  And we still want to make episode 100 special... So we're going to do something slightly different in the meantime! We have a plan for Episode 100, but we're still trying to find a good date to do it.  In the interim, we're doing this! Some of our studying-to-be BJCP judges expressed interest in wanting to practice scoresheets so we thought it would be fun to discuss some...

As our show regularly devolves into talk about competitions, it's only natural that we have a guest whose entire YouTube channel is centered around the same. We welcome Bryan Fischer to episode 99 to discuss his channel "Let's Get Judgey", and talk about the BJCP and judge certification in general. Cheers!

FIXED - Previous episode 98 was blank.  Sorry! Better Nate than Lever!  (IYKYK) It's been a while!  Join us for a post MHF show where we'll dig into our thoughts about the 2023 Michigan Homebrew Festival, or as we like to call it, "Beer Camp". Spoilers: it was awesome!

Have you ever licked a Lichtenhainer?  Can you even pronounce Piwo Grodziskie?  Is Gose even historical anymore?  Have you ever even had a good Sahti? We literally rolled a die for our topic this week and historical beer is it!  Join us as we talk about tasting, brewing, and maybe even a little history on some of the beer styles of yore. Cheers!

Sneaking in a last minute episode as a few of us suddenly had some time available! Join us as we talk about our experiences behind the scenes at GLINTCAP, some notes about the Michigan Beer Cup (which is coming up fast!), and future plans for the show. Cheers!

But really! Though not talked about nearly as much as yeast strains, fermentation temps, hop varieties, the packaging of your beer (and mead and wine and cider) is arguably one of the most important steps in ensuring you have a drinkable end product. Join us as we talk about kegging, bottling, oxygen, filtering, and more! Cheers!

It's been a while to say the least! Sorry it's been so long, but we've missed everyone and the stream so it's time to get back at it! Join us as we discuss Brian's recent experiences taking the BJCP tasting exam as well as what's been going on in Michigan homebrewing this last month, and some info about events happening here in the state a few more months going forward! Looking forward to the stre...