basic brewing

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.

Ken Smith of the Boston Beer Company tells us about how he came up with his winning Boysenberry Wheat, which has been included in the Samuael Adams Long Shot six pack.

We head to Fort Collins, Colorado to tour New Belgium Brewing - the home of Fat Tire, Sunshine Wheat, 1554, La Folie, and other great beers.

Chris Colby of Brew Your Own magazine tells how we can turn seed into malt in our own kitchens.

We travel to Kansas City, Missouri (actually Olathe, Kansas) to attend the 24th annual homebrew competition of the Kansas City Biermeisters.

It begins again! We employ five different yeasts to see how they ferment and flavor five small mead batches.

Adam Avery from Avery Brewing in Boulder, Colorado lets us in on some of the behind-the-scenes details of brewing "Collaboration not Litigation Ale" with Vinnie Cilurzo of Russion River Brewing.

Amelia Slayton from Seven Bridges Cooperative joins us to tell us about brewing with organic ingredients and why we should consider it.

We head to Boulder, Colorado for a tour and tasting at Redstone Meadery. You've seen us make mead, now see how the pros do it.