Homebrew Happy Hour

The Colorado fun continues with another episode from our recent trip to the Denver area! This week, we bring you a fantastic interview with Greg Kinney who is the Director of Food & Beverage for the Eldon James Corporation . Greg gave us a tour of their amazing facility and sat down to talk about what's going on at EJ Beverage . Spoiler alert: Todd and Greg were proud to announce in this episode t...

After spending a week in Colorado, we're back and ready to share all the fun we had with you! The first stop we made was in Fort Collins at the  New Belgium Brewing Company 's beautiful campus. Their Director of Field Quality, Matt Meadows, gave us the VIP treatment with a FANTASTIC tour of the facilities, LOTS of beer to taste, and a wonderful interview which we are proud to present. For more inf...

  It's our favorite day of the week as another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour is back in your life! This week, we drove down the road to beautiful Blanco, TX to tour the amazing Real Ale Brewing Company where we met up with their brewmaster, the infamous Erik Ogershok. Erik showed us around the campus and we had the pleasure of setting up our equipment in their new tap room to sit down and lea...

It's our favorite time of the week because it's another fun episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour back in your life! This week, we come to you live from the Taprite HQ in beautiful San Antonio, Texas! Many of your homebrewers are already familiar with Taprite and their extremely high quality regulators and draft beer equipment so we were super excited to tour their HQ and interview Phillip Frazier (E...

Another week and another fantastic episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour back in your life! Today we celebrate as Joshua gets a kegerator for himself (FINALLY!), then we’ll discuss our thoughts on clone kits, the hot topic of using distilled water for homebrewing, and how easy it is to set up a designated “brew space” in your garage, kitchen, or any free space around the house! If you have a question...

Hey look, it's another new episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour! Even though we're only 13 episodes in thus far, we have been receiving tons of awesome feedback from you and we LOVE IT! We also love receiving all the wonderful questions you've submitted for the show and encourage you to keep on sending. On this episode, we cover the differences between many of our most popular beer faucets, we cover...

We're back with another fun episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour! On this week's show, we discuss various methods of storing your homebrew keg after it's been cleaned, how the Kegconnection crew approaches a mass quantity of kegs needing to be cleaned, and a big announcment: We're now in the iTunes & Stitcher Radio directories! If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode...

We had so much fun with James & Clay (Duster Brew House) a couple of weeks ago that we had them on the show again! OK - spoiler alert, we actually recorded two episodes in a row in one evening and then spaced out when we published the episodes, but we did still have a blast. On this episode, we talk about sour beers and Clay does his best to change Joshua's previous statements that "All sour beers...

Happy Friday to all of you homebrewers and enthusiasts of craft beer! We've got another wonderful episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour for you and this week, we're back to a Q&A format. On this week's show, we discuss the potential dangers of leaving your keg outside of the fridge for a prolonged period of time,  how to correct an over-carbonated homebrew in your keg, and how long you can expect you...

If you recall our last episode, Todd was checking in from Portland, Oregon as he and the Kegconnection crew were there running a booth at the Craft Brewers Conference 2015! This week, we're coming to you from Kegconnection HQ and are joined by area homebrewing experts, James & Clay of the Duster Brew House. It was a BLAST having these guys on this episode and we let them take a question and then w...

It's Friday and that means another new episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour is here for your enjoyment! It's been an exciting week as it's been the Craft Brewers Conference up in beautiful Portland, Oregon. While only one of us (Todd) got to go (no hard feelings from Joshua...), Todd calls in to report from the conference and how awesome it's been. Make sure to join us next week when we go back to o...

It's our favorite day of the week! Fridays mean more Homebrew Happy Hour episodes in your life! On today's show, we get asked about how often you should be cleaning your homebrew keg, is it safe to use beer line cleaner directly out of a pin lock keg, and how on Earth can you prevent your corny keg's rubber bottoms & tops from streaking black every where. If you have a question that you’d like us...

Happy Friday homebrewers! It's always a blast for us to record new episodes for you and we thank you so much for all of the feedback. Even the "bad" feedback has been great and we're definitely learning and growing as we keep on chugging along with new episodes. This week's episode was great because we were FLOODED with questions thanks, in part, to our recent promotion: If you use the "Submit a Q...

It’s another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour back in your life! On this episode, we answer questions about Ball Lock Kegs vs Pin Lock Kegs which leads to a discussion on New AEB Italian Kegs vs the recent flood of Chinese kegs on the market, and Todd talks about his favorite homebrewing book, “The Complete Joy of Homebrewing”. If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future epi...

On this, our very FIRST episode of Homebrew Happy Hour, we take your questions about Bottling vs Kegging homebrewed beer, as well as give out some tips to a listener that is looking to get her husband into homebrewing.   Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!