Michigan Brews

It's that magical time of year in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week! We are going to be hanging out once again with John Liberty from West Michigan Beer Tours, getting a sneak peak at some of this years planned Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week activities.   John will be joined by some special guests from Saugatuck Brewing and Green Door Distilling Company, who have teamed up this year for a sp...

Join us as we look forward into 2022 and go over this year's homebrew competitions from around the state. We'll try not to miss any!

Join us as we recap all of our favorite things about 2021! People, places, shows, beer, and all of the other goodies!   Hoppy 2022!

Jason and Brian get together for a small talk on Winter Warmers, Christmas plans, and a little bit on what's going on next year for the show.

We're finally getting together to drink the not-shrimp IPA!   Bottles were delivered fresh today and looking forward to chatting about the brew day tonight! This will be the first time that anyone on the show (besides Brian) has had the beer.   Also Drew Jacobs somehow makes an appearance, see if you can remember what his new branded moonshine is called.   Cheers!

Do you have a the urge to hoard hard to find stouts and sours in your pantry or basement? Do you have a case each of the last five years of KBS or maybe a seven year vertical of Black Note? Lets talk about it! We will be chatting about when/what you should and shouldn't cellar and debating if cellaring really makes a difference.   Dust off a couple of them old bottles and come hang out with us!

The show you've all been waiting for!  This is a long one folks.   Join us as we get together with homebrewers and past guests all evening long and share in the wonderous beverage that is Hard Seltzer.   There will be many laughs to be had and bubbles to be quaffed!

Yes, there really is a show (tonight)!   Join Jordan and Brian tonight with our recurring special guest Brandon Edwards for brews and banter.   WE BREWED THE SHRIMP BEER but have an important announcement regarding the ingredients. We're confident everyone will be shocked.   Tune in live and we'll see everyone soon!

The 2021 Michigan Mead Cup has officially wrapped! Join us as we talk about the competition with Gail Milburn as well as discuss mead, brewing, judging, competition organization and so much more!

This weeks episode was originally scheduled to be with Gail Milburn where we were going to discuss the Michigan Mead Cup, brewing mead, competitions, and all mead related things. Unfortunately we caught Gail in the "wild north" of Michigan with some limited internet.  Because of that we pushed the episode with her out until November 1st. This episode may cut abruptly to Jordan, Jason, and I talkin...

We are getting back to our Homebrew roots this week, and will be hanging out with Daniel Kukuk and Mike Neville from the Motor City Mashers Homebrew Club out of Taylor Michigan.

Join us as we talk to our friend Brian Walker about the ins, outs, dos, and don'ts of cider making, his plans for an upcoming cidery, apples, and whatever else comes up!

We are going to be chatting with Blair Bowman Jr, organizer of the Michigan State Fair Homebrew Competition.   We will dive into the history, the comeback, and what's in store for this great Michigan focused competition.

In 2020 many homebrew competitions were canceled due to the pandemic. In some cases where the homebrew had already been shipped to the comp, that homebrew was donated and distilled into hand sanitizer, in a way making all of us homebrewers Heroes!   This got us thinking about distilling beer in general, be it for hand sanitizer or spirits. So grab a beer or some other adult beverage an join us as...

Its been a week, but we are still coming down from 2021 MHF!  Grab a beer and hang out with us while we chat about the amazing time we had at MHF (and the hardware we brought back from MBC!)

Like it or not, fall seasonal beers are ALREADY making their yearly return. Join us as we dig back into our Marzen episode (#19, so long ago!) and build some Festbier and otherwise fall-esque recipes!

We're building recipes live on air tonight! Maybe. We're at least going to drink and talk about it... Join us as we take a dive into custom recipe creation and making your beer your own.

We made a gluten free beer! Come hang out as we sit down with Gluten Free Beer Brian of Gluten Free Brew Supply. https://gfbsupply.com/ We’ll be talking about our own experience making a gluten free beer using one of Brian’s own recipes, drinking a few of his beers, and discussing everything that goes into brewing gluten free!

Hanging out this week with Brandon Sabo, Head of Brewing Operations at Ascension Brewing Company, in Novi.

We've got a special show this week! If you're a homebrewer local to SW Michigan this will be a show you won't want to miss! We'll be on-site at a very popular Kalamazoo brewery who hosts a very popular annual homebrew competition... Any guesses?? Join us as we break the news on this year's BELL'S HOMEBREW COMPETITION! We'll be streaming live from Bell's and getting all of the info on the competiti...

Join us as we talk to the organizers of Michigan's biggest homebrew festival! We'll dig into what's going on with the festival this year, what may be changing, what may be new, and all the other good stuff! Bring some homebrew and we'll see you at the normal time!

Join us as we talk with Amy Olsen and Bill Bellair of the Michigan Mead Coalition. Bring your corkscrew and pop some bottles with us!

It's hot in Michigan (for better or worse) and we're thinking about the summer. Join us as we lay down our plans for the next few months and drink some of Brian's beer and Jordan's cider.

Join us as we hang out and have a beer with Dane Bosel of The Distant Whistle Brewhouse and South County Homebrew Supply Shop.

Wow we made it whole year! To celebrate we are going to get together in person, with our friend and fellow Keeper, Brandon Edwards. We will be reminiscing about the shenanigans of the last year, and cracking open some mystery beers... (Homebrew that we have either made or acquired from fellow homebrews, that we completely forgotten about, so we have no clue what's actually in the bottle.) So blow...