August 11, 2020

#10—The Craft of Craft Beer with Johnny Labriola

1 hour 46 minutes

In this episode, we talked about the science and art of craft beer with our good friend and home brewer extraordinaire Johnny Labriola.

Johnny got into craft beer and home brewing around 5 years ago, and since then he has fallen headfirst into the craft beer rabbit hole. We talked about the science of brewing—malt, hops, fermentation—as well as the creativity of inventing new recipes. We also explored some of the rich history that human beings have with beer.

Lastly, we all bought the same beer—Bear Republic's Racer 5 IPA—so that we could learn how to do a formal beer tasting. We definitely had a silly beer buzz going by the end, so it was a really fun episode.

Timestamps (clickable on website):

[02:50] How Johnny got into craft beer
[08:20] Why yeast is what really makes the beer
[10:10] How to define craft beer
[19:45] Getting started with home brewing
[21:52] What is unique to beer culture
[26:35] The formal education of becoming a brewer
[30:48] An introduction into the history of beer
[48:40] We work through our formal beer tasting
[01:12:05] Understanding the bitterness in beer
[01:18:26] Is brewing a science or an art?
[01:29:07] Bonus questions

Links Discussed:

Bear Republic's Racer 5 IPA

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