basic brewing

Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine walks us through his process of making big beers by putting wort back through a second or third mash.

Steve cooks up a delicious, hearty beef stew with beer as a holiday meal alternative.

Garrett Marrero of Maui Brewing Company tells us about brewing in paradise and lets us in on how a couple of his wonderful beers are brewed.

Mead maker Mike Lozano shares his experiment making mead with beer yeast. We also salute the Mighty Carson Art Players.

Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine, gives us tips on reusing all the good yeast we find in the bottom of our primary fermenter.

James and Andy pair beer with cheese, and Andy shows us how to make cheese - a fresh mozzarella.

Jeff Bearer of Craft Beer Radio reports on the winners of the Samuel Adams LongShot homebrew competition at GABF.

We talk to Great American Beer Festival first-timers Jeff Bearer of Craft Beer Radio, Rick Sellers of Pacific Brew News Radio and Rick Hagerbaumer of Big Foamy Head.

Chemistry professor Brad Sturgeon walks us through the basics of using thermometers, hydrometers and refractometers.

James is flying solo, and he's in a hurry! The solution is a very quick and hoppy Amarillo Ale.

Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine gives us an update on what he's learned about doing partial mashes with a countertop cooler.

James brews a Simcoe Ale with bread yeast, and Steve bakes bread with beer yeast.

We continue our tasting with Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist from Washington D.C. This week, all the beers are fermented with Brettanomyces.

Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist from Washington D.C., shares some of his beers made with other-than-normal yeast. In this episode: Kvass, Flanders Red, and a Strong, Dark Belgian.

We turn beers skunky in the sun to test if brown glass really does protect beer from harmful light.

We talk to home brewer and amateur bee keeper Ryan Wilson about how to get insects to make the sweet stuff for our meads and braggots.

Creative Consultants Bob Corscadden and James Gardner of jimbob give us tips on "selling" the idea of drinking homebrew and other good beers in this day of mass-marketed big-boy beers.

Matt Brynildson of Firestone Walker gives us advice on blending beers to create new brews and explains his brewery's system of oak aging.

Brewer Thomas Larsen leads us through a tour of the first brewpub in Denver, Colorado.

Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine gives us some tips on brewing beer with another brewed beverage - coffee.

Thomas Larsen of Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver gives us his take on making wonderful beers with interesting ingredients.

Steve goes wild in the kitchen and on the deck cooking up a big spread of barbeque, integrating beer as an ingredient.

John Legnard of The Sandlot at Coors Field gives us brewing tips and lets us in on what it's like to brew at a small brewery owned by one of the big guys.

We sample delicious meads and mead-based experiments with home meadmaker Mike Lozano of Aurora, Colorado.

We tour the small, experimental brewery at the home of the Colorado Rockies. Birthplace of Blue Moon.