The hot new brewing grain is actually thousands of years old. Fonio, a staple hardy crop from West Africa is now available for brewing purposes where it can yield interesting results including grain derived tropical fruit flavors. Ashton Lewis walks us through what to expect and how to use it!
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For the second competition in a row, a Rauchbier has won Best of Show at a Maltose Falcons competition. This time Kyle Ernsberger won the 2025 Doug King Memorial Competition with his version of a classic Rauchbier! Why does he love smoked beer so? Find out!
Links
Kyle’s Rauchbier: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/2025/04/01/kyle-ernsbergers-rauchbier/
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For the second competition in a row, a Rauchbier has won Best of Show at a Maltose Falcons competition. This time Kyle Ernsberger won the 2025 Doug King Memorial Competition with his version of a classic Rauchbier. You can listen to the Brew Files to find out why he loves a good smoked beer!
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Southern California Homebrewers Festival is right around the corner and Drew sits down with Andy Carter to discuss the Fest and this year’s Bragging Rights Only Competition. In the brewery, Drew gets a bit abstract with a class about Abstrax hop extracts.
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Come join Denny and Bob as they tour through Belgium! Reserve a seat fast – the trip is selling fast! https://vetterbrew.com/bbb-tour-2025/
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Way back in 2015 for an early episode of the main show, Drew sat down with one of his mentors – Bruce Brode. Bruce was a past club president, Grand Hydrometer (education officer), Brews Band Keyboardist, a BJCP Master Judge and helped write many of the early style guidelines.
This past week, Bruce passed away just shy of his 71st birthday and so let’s remember his wit and wisdom and enjoy a beverage in his honor. (And if you have a mentor you’d like to get on “tape”, email us! podcast@experimentalbrew.com)
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Drew sits down in this episode with Brett Knapp of Common Space Brewery to talk their fundraising project – “We ❤️ LA”. We’ve included a homebrew recipe for you to use. Denny and Drew also talk through the recent AHA Independence news. What do you want to happen with the AHA? Let us know!
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This is a homebrewed sized version of We ❤️ LA from Common Space Brewery in their donation drive to help alleviate the suffering caused by the massive January 2025 wildfires in LA County.
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For the Falcons Advent Calendar, Drew decided to do something other than beer and made a cordial inspired by the idea of a boiled/steamed Persimmon Pudding.
Links
Persimmon Pudding Cordial Recipe: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/2025/02/08/persimmon-pudding/
Drew’s Cordial Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18e8MpUsb-f7oY0oI_vAA_40X7rc4u57HI1Hnp63gJNM/edit?usp=sharing
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Drew’s Persimmon Pudding inspired cordial – a 30% sipper full of spices and fruit that’s just about the esiest thing to put together!
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You may have heard the hills around Drew caught on fire – well he’s back after that and a laptop collapse! Catch up with us. We have a few episodes waiting to go! (Picture of Mt. Wilson, which should be green and lush, but….)
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Denny’s road trip continues as he hit the Northern California Homebrewer’s Festival and spoke about the things he’s learned in 27 years of homebrewing.
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It’s not secret that a lot of people missed the AHA’s HomeBrewCon experience this year and a lot of folks shouted that we should do something! So Mark Hurley of The Brew Hut (attached to Dry Dock Brewing) did just that and hosted a one day Colorado Homebrew Conference!
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The Brew Hut: https://www.thebrewhut.com/
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Denny went on the road to his favorite excuse to buy Top and Bottom Cutter – Yakima Chief Hops Hop & Brew School. Sit back and listen to his conversations around the current state of of American hops! Continue reading
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Drew’s been hard at work on a new recipe book celebrating 50 years of the Maltose Falcons and it’s been a trip down memory lane. In this episode he and Denny talk about one of the dumbest things he ever did on purpose as a brewer!
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Damn Heavy Recipe: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/2024/09/23/damn-heavy/
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In an exploration of some of the stupidest things we’ve ever done – we present Drew’s “Damn Heavy” with a 19 hour boil!
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Denny went back home to Newtown Iowa for the first time in decades and wouldn’t you know it, there was a brewery there! Denny sat down with Joe Kesteloot, head brewer of Gezellig Brewing. Denny even found a hazy that he liked!
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Peter is back with his fourth book about Australian brewing – True Blue Brews. He and Drew talk the invention of refrigeration, yeast isolation and other practices that radically changed Australia’s brewing habits and what we can learn from it today!
Links
Victoria Lager Recipe: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/2024/08/05/1896-victoria-lager/
Buy True Blue Brews: https://www.lulu.com/shop/peter-symons/true-blue-brews/paperback/product-5799nqn.html
All of Peter’s Books: https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Peter+Symons
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From Peter Symons’ fourth book True Blue Brews, this is a lager at the transition point, demonstrative of the changing landscape in Australian brewing at the time. (And a pretty good drinker!) Continue reading