Homebrew Happy Hour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

I’m excited to welcome Jeremy McGranahan on the show today! Jeremy is the founder of CuS.S. Brewing Equipment and is the man behind the original multi-feed wort chiller. You can see the entire line of wort chillers and products at CussBrewing.com!

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

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Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

January FLEW by, didn’t it?! It’s crazy to me how quick time seems to pass these days. As you may have heard me mention on previous episodes, I’m in the middle of moving a town over so all of my free time has been packing up our house, purging things I don’t want to take with us, and getting ready to move. It’s been crazy!

Thankfully, my favorite part of the week is producing new episodes of this show and I’m also especially thankful for Todd and James because, without them, I couldn’t possibly begin to answer all of the questions in our HHH inbox. To be fair, even when my brain isn’t fried and overloaded with house selling and house buying and moving stuff, I probably couldn’t answer most of your questions then either.

This week was fun as we discuss a question from a listener who discovered that they had accidentally frozen their keg of beer. We also got a question from a new Blichmann Beer Gun owner about the possibilities of using the device to bottle from a keg of nitrogenated beer. Then, we discussed a question about what might happen if your airlock becomes dislodged during fermentation. Finally, we wrap up the show with a question about the potential safety hazards of using a propane burner on top of a wood pallet base.

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

PS – here’s a link to the shelving unit James mentioned: https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-Chrome-3-Tier-Steel-Wire-Shelving-Unit-24-in-W-x-30-in-H-x-14-in-D-E356075OAH3RTH/313360978

Here’s a pic of Todd’s sweeeeeet set up:

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

Sign up for Kölsch Cup 2021 and see if you can be crowned King of the Kölsch! Details available at KolschCup.com !

Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome back to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

I’m, once again, graced by Todd and James’s knowledge as they help me tackle your submitted homebrewing questions. We start off by taking a question from an avid extract brewer who is curious is he can do anything to a favorite recipe of his to help make the finished beer “a little bit dryer”. Then, we talk about the importance of sterilizing additions (dry hopping) and how we go about doing that. That was followed by a  question about upgrading to PVC-free beer lines and if the more premium liquid lines would allow for leniency regarding how often one needs to clean said lines (spoiler: Todd says clean them every two weeks!). Finally, we wrap up the show with a conversation on creamer functionality in CMB faucets and why it’s a good thing. This was right up James’s alley!

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

Sign up for Kölsch Cup 2021 and see if you can be crowned King of the Kölsch! Details available at KolschCup.com !

Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

James and Todd are back on the program with me to help answer your questions! Specifically, we talk about the turn around “most” kolsches take to get from grain to glass. Mind you, the fastest turn around almost always has to include force carbonating in a keg, so – sorry if you prefer to bottle!

Next, we take a question about the importance (if any) of using the “right” glassware for specific styles of beer. As a man with fancy taste, I would love to tell you all that I ALWAYS have the proper glassware when I’m drinking my delicious (or, sometimes, not delicious) homebrew craft beer but that’s actually not always the case. In fact, if you follow our Instagram page, you’ll see that I’m frequently drinking everything out of an alt glass or a kolsch stange. I’m ready for your hate mail but I prefer the smaller volume (7 to 9oz per pour, for me) and the ease of using an “uncomplicated” glass. It fits me well but I’m open to your opinions and Todd and James offered their own in this episde.

Then, we have a listener write in who purchased a used kegerator from Facebook marketplace and now he isn’t sure what to do. We get this kind of question a lot and it’s shows like this when I’m most thankful for Todd and James because they usually get to the point with what should be your priorities and what you shouldn’t have to worry about for a while.

Lastly, we take a question about using established homebrew recipe kits from your favorite retailer and submitting that beer into competitions. Is it frowned upon? If you’re in competitions does that mean you should only submit completely original recipes? We talk about this but I would love to hear what you think in the comments below.

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

Sign up for Kölsch Cup 2021 and see if you can be crowned King of the Kölsch! Details available at KolschCup.com !

Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

It’s been a while since we’ve done a “Homebrewer Showcase” episode so I wanted to start the new year on the right foot and do more of these types of shows.

Today, cider maker and gluten free homebrewer Corrie Purser (better known as Miss_Cider on Instagram) joins me to talk all things cider and living in the world of craft beer and cidering while having to be gluten free.

She’s an extremely bright young woman who was a blast to talk to and I definitely learned a lot on this week’s show!

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

Sign up for Kölsch Cup 2021 and see if you can be crowned King of the Kölsch! Details available at KolschCup.com !

Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

Back by popular demand, we are proud to welcome back Horst Dornbusch! We had such a good time on episode 199 and you all seemed to love him too, so we begged and pleaded and broke him down until he agreed to do the show again. He brought a wealth of information on topics I, honestly, never even thought COULD be interesting but Horst somehow made me pay attention. ALSO – this is like the only episode where I maybe speak for a total of 2 minutes… so, this is looking to be our most popular episode ever published!

Kidding aside – enjoy our latest interview with the incredible Horst Dornbusch.

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

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Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

James is out this week working hard and in charge BUT, surprise surprise, Mr. Chief Keg Washer himself was able to join me as he returned sooner than I thought he would from his vacation.

Todd helped me take your questions this week and, thankfully, most of them were softballs which helped me curate a pretty fun-filled year-end show. We talked about our favorite batches of beer that we brewed this year, our favorite equipment (and least favorite equipment) we used in 2020, we discussed whether we’d invest money in the pre-boil or post-boil (fermentation or cold side) of brewing if we could go back and do it all over again, and, of course, we touch on our 2021 brew year resolutions.

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

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Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

Todd is out on vacation but, thankfully, Mr. Carlson was able to join me this week as we take your questions and discuss our best answers! We also go over some of the stuff going on behind the scenes and what’s happening in our Patreon community.

On this episode, we discuss one of our favorite styles of beer – New England IPAs! Ok, if you’re new to the show you might not catch my sarcasm there… but, even though it isn’t our thing, New England IPAs are still a very popular style and a listener was curious on how to best achieve the color profile when he’s brewing one. Also, we take a question about step mashing (how to do it, when to do it, what it does), a question on the appropriate time to measure your grains (before milling, after milling, etc), and we wrap up with a question about using an all-in-one electric system (specifically, the Anvil Foundry) as a vessel for primary fermentation. It’s a ton of content packed into this one episode and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

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Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Welcome to our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!

If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635

Todd and James were both able to join me this week and help take your brewing related questions. We also go over some of the stuff going on behind the scenes and what’s happening in our Patreon community.

On this episode, we discuss how whether or not it is important to keep the equipment you use for sours separate for other equipment and in what scenarios it might make more of a difference. We also talk about how to pinpoint CO2 (gas) leaks that might be happening in your kegerator, keezer, or draft beer system. Then, we talk about water profiles and whether or not we build them each time we brew. Finally, we wrap up this week’s show with a question about how to figure out what type of homebrew keg you have if it isn’t stamped on the side of the keg. Todd is the absolute expert on this topic so I’m confident that we were able to help the listener with his question!

If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

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Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

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Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/

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Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour