Experimental Brewing

Attention, attention... this episode is brought to you by an accidentally awesome quirk of fate. After we announced our experiment (Saison Yeast - Airlock vs. Open Ferment - Does it prevent "stall") way back when, our itinerant "Science" co-host Marshall Schott let us know that his site, Brulosophy.com was running the same experiment!

We waited and coordinated our experimental results release. Marshall released his results earlier this week and now we get together and discuss our results plus his. There are a total of five experimental runs here and what do they say? Well, put yer earbuds in and listen! (And if you think this is the last time we're doing this.. ha, you don't know how all this works! Maybe we'll do it on purpose next time!)

From our time in the Casa Verde labs, we move back to Baltimore and spend some time with the Free State Homebrew Club Guild at HomeBrewCon's "Craft Beer Kickoff" Party. We had a heck of a time with the various club members and we hope you learn a thing or two! (Plus, hey - why do you homebrew?) So come along with as we talk to a raft of clubs and a beer "celeb" or two!

Episode Links:

Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Brulosophy's Saison Experiment - http://brulosophy.com/2016/07/04/the-impact-of-back-pressure-on-the-sais...

Drew's Saison Guide (aka the stupid thing that begun this) https://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/guide-saisons-and-saison-yeasts

Experimental Brew Store - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/store

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:02:50 - The Show Intro

00:05:02 Correctional Department of Corrections - Drew's Bad with Names

00:08:18 Experimental Results: Saison Under Pressure

00:44:07 AHA HomeBrewCon Free State Homebrew Clubs

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

First time ever! Denny and Drew and a thousand of their favorite friends are in the same room - the Expo hall at the 2016 American Homebrewer's Association "HomebrewCon". We sat down in the BrewcraftUSA booth and talked with a bunch of different folks including some of our sponsors and some of our very favorite people - including IGOR Nicki Forster who brought us a beer to taste, Marshall Schott who abused us with a triangle test and another listener, Keith Baker, who dropped a beer on Denny to make him crazy! This episode is jammed packed with questions, answers, and really interesting people so give it a listen! (Also this is your last chance to drop some money on the pooches before we get to our next charity!)

Also, a big thanks to listener Chris Nelson for our wonderful "Wrath of Conn" poster that you see on the site.

Episode Links:

Patreon Remember even a buck is good for the dogs: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Freedom Service Dogs: https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Homebrew Con - Register Now!: http://www.homebrewcon.org/

Loughran Family Malt - http://www.malt.ie/

Craftmeister - http://craftmeister.com/

Brulosophy - http://brulosophy.com

PicoBrew - http://picobrew.com/

MoreBeer - https://www.morebeer.com/

BrewCraftUSA - http://shop.brewcraftusa.com/

JaDeD Brewing - http://jadedbrewing.com/

Wyeast Labs - http://wyeastlabs.com/

NikoBrew - http://www.nikobrew.com/

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:04:10 James Loughran - Loughran Family Malt

00:11:20 Teri Farendorf - Great Western

00:24:35 Jonathan Ettlie - Craftmeister

00:30:03 Nicki Forster Beer Tasting

00:39:25 Marshall Schott - Live Triangle Test

00:49:51 Annie Johnson - Pico Brew

00:59:53 Q&A: Boil Vigor

01:02:23 Chris Graham - More Beer

01:08:14 Audience Interaction - The Hop Hats

01:11:11 Brian Morton - Brewcraft USA

01:19:58 Keith Baker Beer Tasting with Randy Mosher

01:27:35 Randy Mosher

01:39:08 Clay and Jeremy - JaDeD Chillers

01:45:55 Audience Iteraction - The Sing Along

01:46:32 Tamara and Candy - Wyeast

01:51:16 Niko - NikoBrew

01:58:00 Q&A: Where do you get your Crazy Ideas

02:00:56 Q&A: The HomebrewCon Name

02:02:11 Q&A: Where Not To Cut Corners

02:05:48 Wrapup and Farewell

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

It's HomebrewCon Week! As this episode goes live we're at the hotel in Baltimore getting ready to rock out with some homebrew! So this episode is going to be a real "quick" one (for us).

In feedback Denny talks about a great response he got from Spain and then Drew has to issue a correction from the Correctional Department of Corrections about a misstate he had about yeast strains.

In the pub, we talk our "plans" for Homebrew Con in Baltimore in June - a live Q&A, a Troubleshooters Corner, Book Signings and more! Denny recounts his experience with the first "Zymurgy Live" put on by the AHA featuring Stan Hieronymus. Then Drew talks a bit about what might be a trend for the furutue of brewers pulling back from distribution.

For the interview segment in the lounge, Drew interviewed two breweries located a mere 500 ft from each other physically but a world apart in terms of brewing philosophy. Our victims this week are the fine folks of Transplants Brewing and Lucky Lukes Brewing in Lancaster CA - about as far on the edge of Los Angeles as you can get. One is all about the whacky, the culinary, the mad while the other is more traditional with classic beer style approaches. Drew talks to them about their experiences as brewers and how it works to have such proximity to your fellow brewers.

Lastly, Drew offers a tumblr account that explores the nerdy obsession of mashups.

Episode Links:

Patreon Remember even a buck is good for the dogs: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Freedom Service Dogs: https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Homebrew Con - Register Now!: http://www.homebrewcon.org/

Zymurgy Live - https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/aha-events/zymurgy-live/

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/05/25/twisted-pine-brewery-ceasing-distri...

Transplants Brewing: http://transplantsbrewing.com/

Lucky Luke Brewing: http://luckylukebrewing.com/

Just Two Things: http://justtwothings.tumblr.com/

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:06:48 Feedback

00:08:09 Correctional Department of Corrections

00:10:02 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub

00:18:47 The Lounge - Transplants Brewery and Lucky Luke Brewing

00:21:46 Transplants

01:02:02 Lucky Luke

01:41:30 Something Other Than Beer

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

As we get ready to head to the NHC, our schedules get a little screwy (we have one more episode before the Wrath of Conn Con)

In feedback we hear about some fun experiences and a nice gesture on the part of a listener. Also we hear from others about Denny and Marshall's recent commentary about skipping over aeration/oxygenation

In the pub, we talk our "plans" for Homebrew Con in Baltimore in June - a live Q&A, a Troubleshooters Corner, Book Signings and more! The Brewers Association gets their history on with one of America's great institutions - The Smithsonian. Denny talks his overwhelming experience at the Craft Brewers Conference. And lastly we ask "Has Craft Beer Gone Too Far?"

In the library we discuss a great article from the Counter Brew website that does a really excellent job laying in the ground work for your knowledge about Brett.

At the lab where we talk the recent obsession with the hazy style called "New England IPA". Specifically we cover the history and the theories behind the style and the infamous, hotly debated murk. And so we're going to launch a full series of explorations, because of course we will. For this first time, we're going to look at yeast impact - namely Wyeast 1056 and Wyeast 1318 in the same wort. Is one murk-tastic? And to back it up, listener Jason Faylor sent in a pair of beers with exactly this same premise so we get our tasting on (and prove that Denny and Drew can really disagree about things)

For the interview segment, we grab some time with John Holl - editor of All About Beer Magazine. We offer him a chance to lay down his opinions and his colorful New Jersey beliefs. It's an interview that exercised Denny's bleeping finger. We think we got them all!

After that, we're off to the books as we try and answer more listener questions.

Denny reminds us all to test your thermometers!

Lastly, Drew fondly explores the world of CorgiOrgy.com and some incredibly sexy Russian cakes.

Episode Links:

Patreon Remember even a buck is good for the dogs: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Freedom Service Dogs: https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Homebrew Con - Register Now!: http://www.homebrewcon.org/

BA And The Smothsonian: http://americanhistory.si.edu/topics/food-history/pages/brewing-history

"Has Craft Beer Gone Too Far": http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/has-craft-beer-movement-finally-gone-to...

CounterBrew The Actual Truth About Yeast: http://counterbrew.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-actual-truth-about-yeast-bre...

Denny's IPA Reviews: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/blogs/denny/oh-say-can-you-see-through-y...

BeerAdvocate NE IPAs under the scope: http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/northeast-haze-through-a-m...

New England IPA Experiment: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/new-england-ipa-series-it-yeast

Israel Bissell IPA: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/israel-bissell-ib-ne-ipa

The Story of Israel Bissell: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/29/news/adna-unsung29

AllAboutBeer: http://allaboutbeer.com/

CorgiOrgy.com: Seriously just click it.

Olga Noskova Mirror Cakes: http://www.boredpanda.com/mirror-glazed-marble-cake-olganoskovaa/

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:03:33 Theme, Intro and Feedback

00:14:12 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub

00:39:40 The Library - Brett

00:42:39 Casa Verde Labs - NE IPA - History, Style, Experiment and Tasting

01:10:34 The Lounge - All About Beer's John Holl

01:56:51 Q&A wth Denny & Drew

02:12:25 Something Other Than Beer

02:15:04 Quick Tip

02:18:26 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

Another episode and a new feature! Read on!

In feedback we hear more about people's weight loss journies. Could we be on the way to skinny brewers? Also a listener chimes in to let us know that he won serious medalage with Drew's Peanut Butter Jelly Time recipe.

In the pub, we talk our "plans" for Homebrew Con in Baltimore in June - a live Q&A, a Troubleshooters Corner, Book Signings and more! We talk about the 500th Anniversary of the Rheinheitsge-whatever and we revisit the Moonlight vs. Moonlight Trademark fight.

In the library we discuss Scott Janish's great article about how dry hopping adds bitterness, just not the way you think it does!

At the lab where we talk the next experiment you can join in on - Saison Yeast and the dreaded "stall". Drew's advocated a simple change - open fermentation - to avoid the nasty tendency that WLP 565 and Wyeast 3724 have to start strong, take a two week nap and then finish the job. Is he right? Let's see!

We launch a new variety of interviews that we're tentatively calling "Unknown All-Stars" where we interview brewers that you may not have heard of, but that we think you should. For our first crack, we're talking with one of Drew's brewing mentors - Bruce Brode. A long time brewer, ex-President of the Maltose Falcons and one of the shaping forces of the BJCP Guidelines. You'll really want to hear all the knowledge Bruce can drop.

After that, we're off to the books as we try and answer more listener questions.

Lastly, the guys talk a bit about Prince (boo) and Drew's most recent YouTube obsession.

Episode Links:

Patreon - Remember even a buck is good for the dogs! - http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Homebrew Con - Register Now! - http://www.homebrewcon.org/

Oliver Wesseloh - German Brewer response to Reinheitsgebot: https://www.facebook.com/notes/oliver-wesseloh/creative-brewers-of-germa...

Brian Hunt - Moonlight Brewing's Response - http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/brian-hunt-of-moonlight-brewing-remarks-o...

Scott Janish: Increasing Bitterness from Dry Hopping: http://scottjanish.com/increasing-bitterness-dry-hopping/

Saison Experiment: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/saison-yeast-airlock-vs-open...

Drew's Saison Guide: https://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/guide-saisons-and-saison-yeasts

Draft Resistive Gate: https://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/resistive-gate-draft-beer-flow-control

Kegerators: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/blogs/denny/podcast-episode-14-pics

Youtube - Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc.: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:03:33 Theme, Intro and Feedback

00:08:35 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub

00:22:20 The Library - Bittering from Dry Hops

00:30:00 Casa Verde Labs - Saison Open Ferment vs. Closed Ferment

00:40:00 The Lounge - Unknown All-Stars - Bruce Brode

01:16:17 Q&A wth Denny & Drew

01:30:54 Something Other Than Beer - Prince and James Townsend and Sons

01:34:29 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

Another episode and this time we're here with Olive Oil results!

In the pub, we talk our "plans" for Homebrew Con in Baltimore in June - a live Q&A, a Troubleshooters Corner, Book Signings and more! We talk some gluten free barley, a new name for an old country and why some trademark fights make us sad.

A new room is added to the house as we sit down in the library to discuss the imminent release of Homebrew All-Stars!

Then to the lab where Marshall joins the guys as they discuss the IGOR's results of their Olive Oil vs. No Aeration efforts. Can you use Olive Oil to cheaply replace aeration?

We go to Dallas where Drew talks with Barrett Tillman of both Black Man Yeast and Deep Ellum Brewing Company about his experiences as a brewer, his love of all things sour and funky and why he decided to start a mini-yeast company.

After that, we're off to the books as we try and answer more listener questions.

Drew adds a quick tip about immersion circulators and brewing

Lastly, the guys hit the kitchen as Denny offers some sourdough advice and Drew deals with a bunch of nut sacks.

Episode Links:

Patreon - Remember even a buck is good for the dogs! - http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Homebrew Con - Register Now! - http://www.homebrewcon.org/

Gluten Free Barley: https://www.yahoo.com/news/beer-brewers-toast-australian-gluten-free-bar...

Olive Oil Experiment - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/olive-oil-vs-no-aeration

Black Man Brew - Barrett's site - http://www.blackmanbrew.com/

Deep Ellum Brewing - http://www.deepellumbrewing.com/

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:03:44 Theme, Intro and Feedback

00:06:21 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub

00:19:57 The Library - Homebrew All-Stars

00:26:57 Casa Verde Labs - Olive Oil vs. No Aeration

00:51:08 The Lounge - Barrett Tillman

01:39:13 Q&A wth Denny & Drew

01:51:21 Quick Tip - Immersion Circulator

01:53:01 Something Other Than Beer - Sourdough, Nuts

01:59:41 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

It's Episode 12 and we're announcing our next experiment amongst other things! We start with listener feedback - everyone was intrigued by and puzzled by the results of our First Wort Hop experiment. So were we!

At the pub, we talk about how the results of the GC election with lots of teasing that's not meant to be taken seriously! We announce that we have "plans" for Homebrew Con in Baltimore in June. Denny gets to rant and rave at the moon with his latest pet peeve and Drew shares an awesome example of how sometimes the customer isn't right at all.

We make a quick stop in the brewery to talk about getting your beer can on

Then to the lab where we dig into every homebrewer's experience. You go to the homebrew shop full of good intentions, buy some grain and mill it. Then you can't brew for a month or two - is your grain still good? Oh bother - guess we'll find out, won't we?

We go to the Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference where Denny interviews Annie Johnson - one of our favorite brewers. Not only has she won two amazing brewing achievements - AHA Homebrewer of the Year and Pilsner Urquell's Masterhomebrewer, but she manages to keep a playful side to her brewing. Listen and learn! (Including her secret obsession)

After Annie, we hit the books for a couple of questions, including one that really made us do some research to avoid our knee jerk "are you kidding us?" reaction. That was awesome!

Denny drops his quick tip about being a yeast abuser.

And then Denny talks about his soon to be assembled chicken coop and the artisans behind it. Drew then drops two things - Billy Dee is back as Colt 45's spokesman and Sweden has a phone number. Yup, Sweden. It's awesome.

Episode Links:

Patreon - Remember even a buck is good for the dogs! - http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Governing Committee Results - http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/2016-aha-governing-committee-...

Homebrew Con - Register Now! - http://www.homebrewcon.org/

Black Acre Brewing - http://blackacrebrewing.com/

Black Acre Brewing's Social Media Rant - https://www.facebook.com/jordan.gleason.1/posts/10106173966458658

Beer Monks Canning - http://beermonks-socal.com/

Cross Roads Ca nning - http://www.crossroadscanning.com/

Saison Figolla Recipe - https://www.maltosefalcons.com/recipes/saison-figolla

Stale Malt Experiment - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/impact-crushed-malt-age-beer...

Denny's Old Stoner Recipe - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/dennys-old-stoner-barleywine

The Diastatic Activity Of Hops, Together With A Note On Maltase In Hops - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1941.tb06070.x/ab...

Malta - http://www.delicioussparklingtemperancedrinks.net/MaltaGoya.html

Denny's Chicken Coop Artisan - http://soliddesignwoodworking.timbl.net/

Billy Dee! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAKcia7WwVA

NPR Calls Sweden - http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/07/473438101/call-a-random-swede-we-tried-it-out

NOTE: In the Q&A segment, when we answer a question abpout hop degradation, I mention that YCH Hops now prints the HSI (Hop Storage Index) on the bags of hops homebrewers buy. Here's how you can use that....HSI shows you the alpha acid loss in the hops over 6 months at a 68F storage temperature. As an example of how it works, let's say you have some hops that start at 10% AA and have an HSI of .250. That means that in 6 months of storage at 68F, the AA% will drop to 7.5%. But since we all know that degradation of hops also depends on temperature, if those hops are stored at 28F, the AA is 9.0%. In effect, each 10F drop in strage temp equates to about .5% AA increase. There's more to it than this, though, and in the future we hope to have someone from YCH on to talk about HSI.

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:03:04 Theme, Intro and Feedback

00:10:24 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub

00:24:36 The Brewery - Mobile Canning

00:33:36 Casa Verde Labs - Going Stale

00:43:37 The Lounge - Annie Johnson

01:07:37 Q&A wth Denny & Drew

01:39:27 Quick Tip - Yeast Abuse

01:46:14 Something Other Than Beer - Coops, Billy Dee, Sweden

01:51:35 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!

Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing

This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d...

Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

It's Episode 11 and experimental results are back! We start with listener feedback - namely, y'all really loved the Session Beer Recipe collection and the Q&A episode. Looks like we're going to have to keep answering questions!

At the pub, we talk about how hops are being explored as actual medicine and why sadly this doesn't mean your Quadruple IPA is about to become "healthy", how our sponsor PicoBrew went to 11 for Denny and discuss why we feel that bars and breweries should offer samplers (and why the money crunchers back us up on this assertion).

Then to the lab where we comb through the results of Denny's favorite experiment - First Wort Hopping vs. 60 minute bittering. First though we start with listener Tim Hagan's fairly clear explanation of the meaning of P-Value. We also talk about why some folks are encouraging a move away from P-Value as the end all be all of science. And then we dig into the experiment! What new and interesting twists did our IGORs find this time? Is there an actual impact here or are we living in a land of make believe?

We go to the Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference where Denny interviews Rodney Kibzey, multiple award winning brewer - no seriously, the man won the Sam Adams Longshot Competition twice. Rodney talks up his "secrets" for winning. So you might want to listen to the man.

Denny drops another quick tip from our AHA Forum friends - Don't Get Caught Up With The Shiny Gear!

Drew then leaves us with two something other than beers - Falcons nesting at Briess and then, because you, the listeners, asked Drew talks about how he lost 112 lbs in 13 months and still drank beer.

Episode Links:

Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Hops as Medicine - http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/researchers-are-brewing-up-medicines-from-beer-hops/

The Value of Fractional Pours - https://www.brewersassociation.org/articles/the-value-of-fractional-pours/

Rethinking P-value - http://www.stats.org/mismeasure-scientific-significance/

Am Stats of P-value - http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/suppl/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108

Briess Falcon Nest Cam - http://blog.brewingwithbriess.com/new-live-falcon-cam-atop-the-briess-manitowoc-grain-elevator/

Images of Drew's Weightloss - http://imgur.com/a/CF3lL

Episode Contents:

00:00:00 Our Sponsors

00:03:28 Theme and Intro

00:05:20 Feedback

00:08:41 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Hops as Medicine, Pico Goes to 11, The Boon of Sampler Flights

00:20:59 Casa Verde Labs - Exploring P-Value and Experimental Results - FWH vs Bittering

00:42:05 The Uke

00:42:36 Medal Secrets with Rodney Kibzey

01:05:37 Q&A wth Denny & Drew

01:25:38 Quick Tip - Don't Get Caught Up

01:27:42 Something Other Than Beer - Briess's Falcon's Nest & Drew's Weight Loss

01:40:04 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Wyeast Labs

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!

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It's Episode 10 and it's finally time to see if we're as smart as we say we are. We discuss the listener response to our Session Beer efforts and promise to post a kickass list of session beer recipes. (Link below) We run off to the pub and discuss the recently concluded Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference and the lameness of "pink washing" and silly sexism. And then to the lecture hall where "Professors" Denny and Drew sit down and try and see how long they can fake actually knowing anything. For listener ease we've broken the questions up into categories so you can find things more easily. OVer the course of twenty some odd questions we tackle questions about ingredients, process, styles, yeast and everything else. Before we leave, Drew gives a brief shout out to two very impactful passings that recently occurred. One to the man whose decision in the 70's still impacts us to this day. The other, well, that one's more important to Chihuahua owners. Episode Links:

Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference - https://www.pnwhc.com/

PNHBC Presentation Links - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FHaYB-5EqwRs1_G1hHXz1MSvI8oCUOUU...

The Session Beer Project - http://sessionbeerproject.blogspot.com/

Session Beer Homebrew Recipe Bonanza - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/content/session-beer-day-recipe-bonanza-...

Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:02:13 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:06:31 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference, pinkwashing and unfortunate sexism 00:17:28 The Lecture Hall - Q&A Introduction 00:18:43 Ingredient Questions 00:34:24 Process Questions 01:04:58 Style Questions 01:29:17 Yeast Questions 01:43:52 Miscellaneous Questions 02:04:09 Something Other Than Beer - Ray Tomlinson, Moonie the Chihuahua 02:07:46 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

American Homebrewers Association

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

It's Episode 9 - last call for questions before the big Q&A episode! (Send your questions to [email protected]) We run off to the pub and discuss feedback abut the potential canning crisis, the unbearable BS of science, the now sold out Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference and Hops in Drew's hometown. And then to the lab where the guys launch the next experiment. Is there a detectable difference between adding Olive Oil as an aeration replacement and just not adding any aeration/oxygen at all! We go into the history of the whole Olive Oil excitement and why they think everyone has it a little wrong. With the approach of Session Beer Day - April 7th - we get beer writer extraordinaire and Session Beer Project creator, Lew Bryson on the phone and go through the history of the project, the beer day and what Lew ultimately wants to achieve! We take a brief detour to provide everyone with some homebrew advice so you can have a session beer of your own on tap for Session Day! Denny drops another quick tip from our AHA Forum friends - this time all about the tool box Drew then leaves us with a musical clip for the ages! Episode Links:

Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/

Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference - https://www.pnwhc.com/

The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit - http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/

Florida Hops - http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/02/uf-to-hop-into-hops-varieties-for-m...

The Experiment - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/olive-oil-vs-no-aeration

The Session Beer Project - http://sessionbeerproject.blogspot.com/

Seen Through a Glass - http://lewbryson.blogspot.com/

Why the PLCB Should Be Abolished - http://noplcb.blogspot.com/

Andrews Sisters with the Supremes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTsBsSngrc

Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:02:13 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:07:50 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Can Shortage, THE BS of Science, Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference, Hops in Florida 00:24:30 Casa Verde Labs - Experiment: Olive Oil vs. No Aeration 00:33:18 Session Beer Project with Lew Bryson 01:12:45 Brew A Session Beer! 01:22:17 Quick Tip - The Tool Box 01:24:25 Something Other Than Beer - The Andrew's Sisters 01:27:06 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions

This episode is brought to you:

BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew

Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss