
S2 E5 - Home Brewer Lab with Trong Nguyen
On this week's episode we talk to Trong Nguyen founder of Home Brewer Lab and we talk about some of the amazing gadgets he has created for home brewing.

On this week's episode we talk to Trong Nguyen founder of Home Brewer Lab and we talk about some of the amazing gadgets he has created for home brewing.

This week Peter Symons joins Homebrewing DIY! We talk about some of his tech stack and beer history! Check out his books and videos!

This week we talk to David Monahan of Squarrel and innovative barrel technology. We discuss their approach to barrel aging of beer, wine, and spirits.

This week we talk to the face of BruControl about their software that automate pretty much anything about your brewery.

Brewing your first beer is an adventure. I made episode to walk you through the process of your first extract kit beer. From the basic equipment to bottling I go through the full process.

Today I talked Joshua Steubing and Todd Burns of the Home Brew Happy Hour Podcast. Todd is the owner of CM Becker and Keg Connection in Comanche Texas. Todd has many years brewing, supporting brewers, and they are so knowledgeable when it comes to kegging systems. WE had them on the podcast and discussed draught systems and some ways you can overcome issues like foam.

Beer has created a huge secondary market and there are breweries that are more sot after than ever. Today I talk with Taylor Dodds of Bar Are Beers about beer trading and the secondary market.

There are many different approaches to the iSpindle and Joey Joe Joe Jr. has designed a version that is a little easier to get up and running. He also has a bunch of other open source projects he is working on over at his website Open Source Distilling. Today we dive in to all of his projects!

Hey brewing in a small space is kind of hard. You have to make some adjustments. It's just the nature of having to brew in a small space. Today we talk to George Pipala of Apratment_Brewing on instagram about some of his tips on brewing in a small space. And we kind just shoot the shit about being in quarantine.

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!

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.

Over the last couple of years canning your homebrew is now achievable. With home can seamers you can buy some cans and knock out a batch in cans. Today we are talking to Dennis Grumm CEO of Oktober Design about their hombrewing can seamers and how you could start canning at home today.

Today we are talking to Aaron Haag form Plato's Gravity Podcast about all things beer packaging. We start with bottling, move to kegging and discuss building a keezer.

One of the things that has always blown my mind about homebrewing is just the creativity homebrewers use to make beer. Whether it is out of necessity or frugalness, where there is a will there's a beer to be made. Today we are talking to Russ and Steve Cooksey a father and son brewing duo that has a very creative system for making all-grain batches with an electric tea urn. We will drill into their system and how they brew when we get back to Homebrewing DIY.

On this episode, we talk to Jim Spaulding about his Beer Barn and how he built it himself. Jim makes great beers and his DIY projects are built around his brewing process. Here are some photos of his brewery.

Today we talk about a very powerful fermentation controller for your fermentation chamber called Fermentrack. Using a Raspberry Pi and an ESP 8266 you can really dial your temps and watch your gravity in real-time if you have a Tilt or iSpindel.