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Advice for new brewers, party faucet maintenance, adding a hand pumped keg to my keezer, & what is a diacetyl rest – Ep. 235
Jun 17, 2021
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Happy HomebrewCon, friend!
We are very excited to welcome you back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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I know I said “Happy HomebrewCon” at the top, even though this is NOT our HomebrewCon presentation, but I mentioned it because HomebrewCon is going on RIGHT NOW as you’re reading this… or, if you’re late to this episode, it already happened and we probably had a blast and totally didn’t mess up our presentation or do a bad job at all, right?!
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Cleaning a HERMS set up, blending beers, how long should I wait to serve after force carbonating, & do I have to clean my conical fermenter between every batch – Ep.234
Jun 10, 2021
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Hey there, Homebrewer!
We hope that you’re doing well and we’re very excited to welcome you back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
Todd and James join me this week to tackle your awesome homebrewing questions. We recorded from the brew room at HQ because James was having a brew day on our new Brautag system! It’s now available at Kegconnection.com (CLICK HERE) and we couldn’t be more excited. Also – we still have 4 passes to HomebrewCon Online to giveaway and you can enter for your chance to win by clicking HERE. Drawing will be on Monday, June 14th.
Also – if you’re listening to this episode and wondering “I follow them on Instagram and I didn’t see anything about blending beers this week” it’s because Todd and I drank too much before we remembered that we didn’t blend any beers last night. We’ll get to it another time, especially since I’ll be up at HQ ALL NEXT WEEK as we prepare for our HomebrewCon Online 2021 seminar on brewing on a HERMS system.
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Getting citrus flavors in your beer, using the same gear for various types of brewing, lactose vs maltodextrin, & dumping everything from the boil kettle into the fermenter – Ep. 233
Jun 03, 2021
Show notes
Howdy, Homebrewer!
We hope you’re doing well and we’re excited to welcome you back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
It’s been a while so I am super stoked to welcome back Homebrew Supply’s Director of Operations, Mr. Ladik Joe Ermis! Joe is an incredibly under-utilized resource, mainly because he’s SO BUSY managing the day-to-day production operations for Kegconnection LLC. I begged him for an hour of his time and, lucky for all of us, he was able to join me this week and tackle your questions.
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Building enclosures around your keezer, avoiding refrigerant lines, where’s the krausen, & milling your own grains – Ep. 232
May 27, 2021
Show notes
Hey there, friend!
We hope you’re doing well and we welcome you back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
Todd and James are back on to help me take your questions and get thru another fun-filled episode of our show. Thank God too because the questions we have for this week pretty much require the expertise of Todd & James so I’m thankful that 1) Todd was feeling up to doing the show and 2) That James was available because I rely on that guy’s wisdom SO MUCH for this show.
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Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!
cheers,
joshua
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Hanging out with Tyler & Laurie from the Brew’d Up Podcast – Ep. 231
May 21, 2021
Show notes
How was your week, friend?
We hope it was great and we welcome you back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
I gave Todd and James a break since Todd is out of town for a medical procedure and James works so hard – they both deserved the week off. However, I was thrilled to welcome my friends Tyler & Laurie from the Brew’d Up podcast on the show. We’ve had Tyler on before and it was great catching up with her as well as meeting Laurie and learning more about what they’re brewing, how they’re brewing it, and all about their podcast.
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cheers,
joshua
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How should the water flow during your sparge, brew day music choices, preventing dirty glassware, & should you worry about pre-boil contaminants – Ep. 230
May 13, 2021
Show notes
Great to see you again,friend!
Welcome back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
James and Todd are back with me to take your questions and chit-chat the day away. We had a PACKED episode today and I, personally, had such a good time recording it with these dudes. Questions about whether or not it matters how your sparging water hits the mash, what kind of tunes are we listening to when we brew, how to keep your beer glassware clean, and one listener wanted to know if he should throw out his batch because he caught his dog drinking from the boil kettle (BEFORE the wort got to boil, of course).
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Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!
cheers,
joshua
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Adding taps to a kegerator system, what’s a vorlauf, MFL vs barbed disconnects, & when to recirculate – Ep. 229
May 06, 2021
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Thanks for joining us again, friend!
Welcome back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
We’re back with another fun-filled exciting… ok, I have to stop there. Look – I definitely have fun every week and I definitely think our show is exciting but I’ve had some people tell me that it’s not as exciting as I think it is… Either way, I was joined by Todd and James to take your questions and provide the answers to the best of our abilities. I think you’ll learn a lot this week as we had a nice selection of questions.
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Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!
cheers,
joshua
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Pouring test wort back in the batch, airlock differences, forgetting to measure gravity, & choosing which way to sparge – Ep. 228
Apr 29, 2021
Show notes
Great to see you again, friend!
Welcome back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
James and Todd joined me, once again, because I need help if I’m going to get adequate answers for you all! Kidding aside – you know that doing this show with these dudes is the highlight of my week and I’m proud of the show we’re bringing to you today.
On a related note per a wager I made with Todd last week, you’ll be happy (or sad, depending on how you feel about me) to learn that I DID avoid getting my balls kicked by Todd because I did manage to publish the second part of his extract brewing series on time! WOOHOO!
If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!
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Choosing coffee for stouts, keeping your keezer in a hot garage, harvesting SCOBYs from commercial kombucha, & pitching expired liquid yeast – Ep. 227
Apr 22, 2021
Show notes
Nice to have you back, homebrewer!
Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
I had the pleasure of being joined, once again, by my favorite people who I work with and record weekly podcasts with – Mr. Todd Burns and Mr. James Carlson! They helped me take your questions and we covered a wide variety of topics today. I even got to pretend like I’m an expert on kombucha, so I had a blast!
If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!
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An interview with Fred Coleman, aka, “Blind Brew Guy” – Ep. 226
Apr 15, 2021
Show notes
What is going on, homebrewer?
Welcome back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
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On Today’s Show:
We welcome one of our favorite people in the homebrewing community, Fred Coleman, to the show. Fred, also known as @BlindBrewGuy on Instagram, is an avid brewer who splits his time between Arizona and Minnesota. He also happens to be visually impaired but that doesn’t stop him from brewing up delicious batches of homebrewed beer and we had a blast talking with him. I have felt bad for excluding Todd and James on these homebrewer showcase episodes so you’ll notice that it was a nice addition having them on with our special guest.
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