Andrew Voss is a local hop farmer here in Arvada Colorado and he is also a member of my the Olde Town Mash Paddlers Homebrewing Club. He is a very experienced hop farmer and I invited him on the show to talk about how to grow your rhizomes into hops you can brew with. So get ready for those late summer wet hop beers and get growing some hops.
Bryan Heit is a homebrewer with a scientific background that has created a set of videos and a blog that makes building your home yeast lab very easy to understand and setup. His set of videos can make any homebrewer into a newfound yeast wrangler!
We had Ryan Pachmayer BJCP certified judge and gold medal winner on the show a few weeks ago talking about brewing big beers. I wanted to have him back to discuss his techniques to brewing with barrels. So we decided to do a guide to brewing in barrels and apparently there is a ton to learn.
There are so many open source projects you can find out there when that revolve around homebrewing. From some of the topics, we have discussed on the show like Fermentrack and CraftBeerPI. There is a ton of projects you could be using today to help improve your brewing.
Today’s show is a bit of a different format. I will not have a guest on this episode today we are going to deep dive into a specific homebrewing subject. That subject is going to be fermentation chambers and temp control. We will also go out to some to the brewing community and see how then do temp control. Sit back and relax and lets deep dive together.
I personally have not home-distilled. I have seen it done but never have I distilled myself. With the advent of these new electric brewing systems where you can but a still top for them, I wanted to talk to someone about what you would need to get started. Then I asked George Duncan of Barley and Hops Brewing on YouTube to join us and talk about what you would need to get started. We also talked about the cool hydrometer he built for the blind using and Arduino. It is super cool.
Peter Symons is an avid writer and researcher of historic beer styles. He has already written two books on his journey to deep dive into the history of Australian beers. His newest book Guil Brews dives into the history of Cornish beers of his youth and the history of these beers and how to make them.
Today we are talking to gold medal winner and BJCP Judge Ryan Pachmayer. Ryan is an avid brewer of big beers and we dive into his tips tricks, and techniques on brewing better big beers.
When I found the Pop Culture Brews podcast I thought to myself this is a very unique take on a homebrewing podcast. Listen today as I talk to Andrew Sanders host of the Pop Culture Brews Podcast. We talk about beer, movies, and podcasting about beer.
Since beer is truly one of those ancient beverages and has a rich history, today we talk to Rob DeSalle Co-Author of A Natural History of Beer. Rob and I discuss beer history and the effects it has on society as a whole.
