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Episode 111 - Style Hour: Dark Strong/Quad Redo and Cellaring Your Beer Apr 15, 2018

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In this episode, we go back to "re-do" our Belgian Dark Strong/Quad episode because our last episode got a little out of hand and completely unintelligible at times. In fact, it was the first time we got the suggestion to add a bouncer for the show! Well, we just wanted to go over the style again and we even have Shawn Kidwell from Cowtown Brewing back in studio to help. Also, to go with the subject, we're also going to discuss cellaring your beer to keep it at it's best and what might happen if your storage methods aren't tip top.

Episode 110 - Malt-o-Rama #2 and more Making Plans for Nigel Apr 03, 2018

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In this episode, we start some new short segments, get into our second Malt-o-Rama topic with a focus on wheat malts--because there's often some confusion between what's available, what's in a recipe, and what people really want when using wheat. Then we continue our Making Plans for Nigel discussion by answering more of the questions we had on our list from the last time.

Episode 109: Making Plans for Nigel #2 (Q&A for New and Intermediate Brewers) Mar 06, 2018

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In this episode, we're going back to another segment of our Making Plans for Nigel discussion where we cover more of the questions we had leftover from our first round. All aimed at answering the questions of newer and intermediate brewers. We had a good response to what we discussed last time and could have easily filled up a few more hours on most of the questions, so here we are again!

Episode 108 -- Muntons Malting and Omega Yeast Brett Blend Saison Tasting Feb 23, 2018

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In this episode, we have Ross Hughes the Brewing Sales Executive for the US midwest region for Muntons malting company. Most of you know Muntons, but for those who don't they are a leading global player in the supply of malts, malt extracts, flours, flakes, and many other malted ingredients relevant to the food and drink industry. After our discussion with Ross, we open up a few of our bottle conditioned Omega Yeast Brett blend saisons from Learn to Homebrew Day. We try the Saisonstein's Monster, the American Farmhouse, Where Da Funk, and Bring Da Funk.

Episode 107 - Style Hour: British Christmas Ales and Winter Warmers Feb 11, 2018

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In this episode, our resident Brit Nigel brought back a haul of beer brewed in England including a series of Golden Ales, Milds, Christmas Ales, and Winter Warmers. Last week we learned a lot focusing on the Golden Ales and Milds, but tonight we are going to give our focus to the second half of that haul and talk about the English Christmas Ales and Winter Warmers that fall under BJCP categories 30C Winter Seasonal Beer, 17A British Strong Ale, and 17B Old Ale. So again, we want to give a big thanks to Nigel for all the effort he went to bringing home a set of beers from the source so we could help educate you about the styles.

Episode 106 - Style Hour: British Golden Ales and Dark Milds Feb 09, 2018

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In this episode, our resident Brit Nigel brought back a haul of beer brewed in England including a series of Golden Ales, Milds, Christmas Ales, and Winter Warmers. Tonight we focus on half of that haul and talk about BJCP category 12A British Golden Ale and the far too uncommon category 13A - Dark Mild. Plus, we also had our local BJCP Grandmaster Judge, James Lallande, back in studio to help! So, we want to give a big thanks to Nigel for all the effort he went to bringing home a set of beers from the source so we could help educate you about the styles.

Episode 105 - High Attenuation with Kevin Lane of Fermentis Feb 07, 2018

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In this episode, we have Kevin Lane from Fermentis back in studio with us to tell us about some of the newer Fermentis products and have a discussion about getting higher attenuation out of your fermentations. He has some new things to tell us about and at least one of them (HA-18) is a serious weapon as far as getting an incredible amount of attenuation out of your higher ABV brews, so hopefully you'll see it as a new option for your brewing toolbox soon!

Episode 104 - Packaging and Priming Revisited and Malt-o-Rama #1 Jan 25, 2018

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In this episode, we cover some previous territory and revisit the basics of packaging and priming to fill in some listener requests. We know that many of you have questions about the best methods and especially, how you might--and we stress might--be able to save something that didn't turn out as planned. Plus, we also get into a new segment describing a few details about malts and the differences between some of what's available that we will call Malt-o-Rama. Other than that, the usual shenanigans and arseholery that you all know and love us for.

Episode 103 - Listener Requests and Water Treatments Revisited Jan 11, 2018

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In this episode, we address several questions we recently received from listeners, and dive back into water and water treatments. Water treatments can help bring out a variety of different flavors in your beer and Nigel and Mikey recently did an experiment with one of Nigel's favorite clone recipes to find out if they could get the hop flavor to match the original beer from across the pond. We then discuss how different crystal malt additions effect that beer as well. And speaking of well, we look at a water report from the well water at Brandon's new house and address a listener question about working with well water.

Episode 102 - Making Plans for Nigel and Hop-o-Rama #4 Jan 04, 2018

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In this episode, we wanted to introduce another new segment for beginning and intermediate brewers coming from the point of view of our resident Brit called Making Plans for Nigel. Perhaps some of you recognize the song reference. Basically, Nigel comes at us with a list of questions that he had as a beginning brewer through to his current practices. It's a broad range of subject matter to cover, so we're sure to revisit his questions again in the future! After that, we also hit our 4th installment of Hop-o-Rama!

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