

Basic Brewing Radio
James Spencer
Basic Brewing Radio is a weekly chat about homebrewing - brewing the best beer and mead in the world in your own home.
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Aug 22, 2018 • 57min
08-23-18 Zero Tolerance Gluten Free Club
Homebrewers Joe Morris, Ed Golden and Bob Keifer join us to share their techniques and recipes for brewing delicious beers without gluten.

Aug 15, 2018 • 1h 4min
08-16-18 Occidental Brewing
We visit Occidental Brewing in Portland, Oregon, to talk to brewer Sam Carroll about brewing delicious German-style beers.

Aug 8, 2018 • 48min
08-09-18 Sake-Beer Hybrid
Homebrewer Kevin McEvoy shares his experiment combining sake and beer fermentations into a single beverage with components of each.

Aug 1, 2018 • 47min
08-02-18 Pichia Apotheca Hybrid Yeast
Dr. Maitreya Dunham of the University of Washington joins us to talk about a new yeast hybrid her lab has isolated from an open fermentation beer. Tim Leber and Norm Kwasinski share mead and beer brewed with the yeast.

Jul 25, 2018 • 47min
07-26-18 Insane in the Yeast Strain
We join Imperial Organic Yeast and Everybody's Brewing to sample two split-wort experiments.

Jul 18, 2018 • 45min
07-19-18 Hop Sampler - UK Fuggle, German Hallertau and Perle
James and Steve taste the third in the Hop Sampler series, featuring hops from the UK and Germany.

Jul 11, 2018 • 1h 7min
07-12-18 Cascade Brewing
We sample delicious sour beers at Cascade Brewing in Portland, Oregon, with Head Brewer Mike Mathis and Lead Blender Kevin Martin.

Jul 4, 2018 • 59min
07-05-18 Portland Club Night
We roam the floor of Homebrew Con Club Night to sample delicious, and sometimes odd, beers and visit with their talented, sometimes odd, brewers.

May 30, 2018 • 48min
05-31-18 Eclectic IPA with Dick Cantwell
Brewer and author Dick Cantwell talks about his book, Eclectic IPA: Pushing the Boundaries of India Pale Ale, which includes IPA recipes with fruit, vegetables, spices, and other tasty ingredients.

May 23, 2018 • 41min
05-24-18 Hop Sampler - Apollo, Calypso, and Experimental 07270
James and Steve go round two into comparing small batches brewed with single hops. This week increases the alpha acids with Apollo, Calypso, and Experimental 07270.


