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Right on the heals of episode 9 comes another installment of beer nerdness from one of the legends in the brewing community. Chris White! Yes Chris White of White Labs. What! We have to say that we thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Chris about his background in homebrewing and building White Labs in to what it […]

This episode was a particularly fun one, not that others aren’t, but we enjoy a fun educational conversation with Thomas Shellhammer, PH.D. of Fermentation Sciences at Oregon State University We cover the hot topics of Hop Creep, Hop Bitterness from Dry Hopping, Foam Stability, ideas of stopping hop creep as well as some other fun […]

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First a disclaimer: We recorded this episode with an intention of learning more about non-alcoholic beer (excluding Kombucha, etc. Just focused on beer). However we met some resistance in the commercial sector with brewers not willing to share their process/techniques. We understand completely, this is a new area of beer and from what we learned […]

WOW so much has happened over the last month since our last drop, but we did get a new episode recorded for you wonderful listeners. We must warn you, we did try to do a livestream (unsuccessfully) that may have strained the audio a little, sorry. Also Daan and his infinite clumsiness spilled an entire […]

In this episode we are chatting with Sebastian of Epiphany Craft Malt out of Durham, NC about malt and process involved to take raw barley to the end product… Malt Post recording, Epiphany Malt was used in 2 gold metal beers at this years GABF. Wooden Robot out of Charlotte, NC for a Fruited Wood/Barrel Aged […]

Welcome to this special episode of Fermentation Nation with a gentlemen who has been a major inspiration of the American Craft Beer industry and has been credited with brewing the first Double IPA in the USA, possibly the world, as well as the first brewer to brew with brettanomyces in America. He is none other […]

Welcome back to our 3rd episode drop, this time with Eric and Chuck from Parleaux Beer Labs here in New Orleans. Sit back and enjoy this information packed episode focused on 3 beer styles, well 1 that is more a hybrid to the style. Tmavé Pivo (Czech Dark Lager), Vienna Lager, Biere de Garde.  For more […]

Welcome back! You made it through episode 1! We apologize for the roughness of that audio. However, your ears are in a treat for this next episode as we think we have solved our audio issues, which includes being able to run our A/C while we record. Trust me that is a massive improvement. H2O, […]

WE ARE BACK!   For those of you that have been wondering what happened to us, well short answer, a lot! In April 2017 near the brink of Daan’s move to New Orleans, Joe and Shawn, decided that it was time to focus on their family and building the FN Brew Club and hang up their […]