It’s festival season and Denny and Drew catch up – including Denny’s experience with the Falcons and what happened with Drew’s massive brewday!
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Brew Files – 142 – Vinnie the Elder
The Brew Is Out There!
Vinnie Cilurzo has never forgotten his roots as a homebrewer and freely shares his knowledge with the crowd. We’re dropping you into the chaos of the 3rd Anniversary Happy Hour of the Maltose Falcons with Russian River as Drew, Vinnie and a cast of others, taste the classic Pliny the Elder and discuss what’s changed and why it works so well.
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Episode 175 – REPLAY – Awesome Club of Saison
Homebrew clubs are awesome and we can prove it! Entering it’s 6th year, the American Homebrewer’s Association’s Radegast Club of the Year Award seeks to recognize the crazy amazing things they do. We talk with the AHA’s Matt Bollng about the award and how your club can win! And we dig into a bunch of Saison info as well as the beer news and brewing fun! Continue reading
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Episode 174 – Porr’s Great Beers
Stephen Porr has been brewing and YouTubing for years and by reputation making great beers. How good? Denny finds out! Plus we finally get a chance to try David James’ Czech Amber!
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Dark Mystery Belgian Dark Strong Ale
SJPorr provided Denny with a taste of several of his beers in Episode 174 Porr’s Great Beers. This is his Belgian Dark Strong brewed with a dried yeast – Mangrove Jack’s MJ27
Revolution Imperial Stout
SJPorr provided Denny with a taste of several of his beers in Episode 174 Porr’s Great Beers. This is a burly Imperial Stout – the sort you sip on while thinking thoughts of a brand new world.
Falcon’s Prey IPA
SJPorr provided Denny with a taste of several of his beers in Episode 174 Porr’s Great Beers. This is a classic throwback IPA with all the malt touches and a nestload of Falconers Flight Hop Blend
Brew Files – 141 – Festival Brewing
The Brew Is Out There!
Drew’s procrastination has caught up with him and now he’s gotta scramble to make beers in time for the Southern California Homebrewer’s Festival. What’s his plan and how can you do the same?
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Episode 173 – A Cold Tale of Two IPAs
After hearing our confusion and musing on “What is Cold IPA”, listener and brewer David Basile offered us his Cold IPA and his take and notes on the style! And to double up the IPA content – Denny sent Drew his latest West Coast DIPA to break down.
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Brew Files – 140 – Distilling with Aaron Hyde
The Brew Is Out There!
Distillation is an ancient art with new modern tools to make it even easier. Drew talks with Aaron Hyde about how you can easily distill hops, herbs, water and alcohol <where legal> with countertop devices like the new Air Still Pro.
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Episode 172 – REPLAY – pH With Martin
The subject of water and most importantly, pH can be utterly confounding. Buffering capacity, acids, salt concentrations, “measurements expressed as” and temperature add to a mix of questions that baffle even experienced brewers. We sit down with Martin Brungard to work through common questions we see online to see if we can get answers!
Episode Links:
Homebrewers Association: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/experimental
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Anderson Valley’s First Pilsner: https://thefullpint.com/beer-news/anderson-valley-brewing-releases-the-p…
What have you dumped?: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/dump-em-or-dont-when-…
Under the Volcano: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/under-the-volcano-2021
The Pongo Fund: https://www.thepongofund.org/
Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing
Episode Contents:
00:00:00 Opening & Our Sponsors
00:01:57 Announcements & Feedback
00:7:25 The Pub
00:24:27 The Brewery
00:35:26 The Lounge with Martin
01:12:38 Q&A, Quick Tip & Something Other
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Brew Files – 139 – Bottling With The Food Engineer
The Brew Is Out There!
While many experienced brewers switch to kegs for convenience, some still hold to the path of bottling. Christian Mercado, host of The Food Engineer Podcast, makes his case for bottling – particularly when it comes to Saison!
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Episode 171 – And With the Support of Brewers Like You…
David James won the Annual Cascade Brewers Society competition in support of public radio (KLCC) with his multi award winning Czech Amber Lager. After we sift through a bunch of your Q&A feedback, we sit down and talk with him about what make his beer sing! You can ask him questions via his Instagram (@studentsbrewing)
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David James’ Czech Amber Lager
David James has been winning medals with his take on a Czech Amber Lager. He won the Cascade Brewers Society’s KLCC Homebrew Competition. Talked about in Episode 171 – And With The Support of Brewers Like You You can ask him questions via his Instagram (@studentsbrewing)
Brew Files – 138 – Masa’s Guavaaahhh!
The Brew Is Out There!
The annual Doug King Memorial Competition celebrating Doug’s craziness has a new winner – Masa Kitano of the Socal Cerveceros with his Guavaaahhh Gose. Drew talks with Masa about how he got into homebrewing, what inspired this fruit filled Gose and his experiments with Wet Hop IPAs for good measure!
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Masa’s Guavaaahhh Gose
Masa’s 2023 Doug King Memorial Competition Best of Show Winner – a Guava infused Gose! Talked about in Brew Files 138 – Masa’s Guavaaahhh!
Masa’s Wet Hop IPA (Columbus and Cascade)
Masa’s Wet Hop West Coast IPA experiment with Wet Hops courtesy of Craftsman Brewing! Talked about in Brew Files 138 – Masa’s Guavaaahhh!
Episode 170 – Questions with John Pt. Deux
You sent us so many questions that it took 2 episodes to answer them all! In this second of two parts, Denny and Drew are joined by Mr. How-to-Brew himself, John Palmer to try to answer your homebrew questions. (Don’t forget you can always ask us questions at podcast@experimentalbrew.com
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Wild Fields Pine Mountain Monolith English Brown Ale
Wild Fields Brewing Company multi-GABF and World Beer Cup winning Brown Ale as talked about in Brew Files 137 – Wild Malty Fields.
Brew Files – 137 – Wild Malty Fields
The Brew Is Out There!
In these days of IPAification, Atascadero’s Wild Fields Brewhouse is making waves and GABF gold with malt forward beers. Drew sits down with brewery co-founder Ryan Fields to talk about making malty gold!
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