Homebrew Happy Hour

Welcome to another fun-filled jam-packed episode of the 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 join me to take your questions on Irish moss (whirlfloc tablets), what is a yeast starter and why would you want to make one, and our opinions on making fancy (seltzer/carbonated) water inside of 1 or 2 litre plastic bottles.

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

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the 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

We covered a lot of info on today’s show! Information such as helping a listener who has only brewed lagers up until now and he’s curious if he should use equipment exclusively for each style of beer he brews (one fermenter for lagers, one for ales, etc, etc). We also took a question about preventing mold. Our final question was about the appropriate length for liquid tubing when doing a keezer build and NOT using flow control faucets.

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

We welcome you and we thank you for tuning in to another episode of 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

In case you missed it, we presented a seminar last week for the 2020 #HomebrewCon ! Despite what Todd may have told you, #HomebrewCon was NOT cancelled (I won a $5 bet, you guys!) but, rather, it was restructured to being an online only event. Our seminar, “IN DEPTH: Draft Beer Systems & Building a Keezer” went smooth and we had an absolute blast doing it. You can watch it at https://www.homebrewhappyhour.com/in-depth-draft-beer-systems-and-building-a-keezer/ or by visiting our YouTube channel at YouTube.com/HomebrewHappyHour !

In this episode, we go over the fun of #HomebrewCon and we also take your questions! Specifically, we cover what to do if you accidentally put your gas or liquid disconnect on the wrong keg post (it happens!), natural carbonating your beer even if you keg, and a listener asks us about our favorite non-beer beverages to make when we aren’t brewing beer.

Lots of great info on today’s episode!

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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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

Howdy, friends!

We wanted to remind you that #HomebrewCon Online starts TODAY! If you haven’t registered yet, head on over to HomebrewCon’s website and sign up. There’s lots of fun talks, information to be shared, and yours truly will be giving a presentation on draft beer systems and how to build out a keezer. We had such a good time preparing this seminar for you all and I hope you enjoy it as much as we have. There will also be a coupon code given out to all #HomebrewCon attendees who make it to our seminar so be on the lookout for that as well! Have a fantastic rest of your week and we hope to see you at this year’s #HomebrewCon Online.

cheers,

joshua

and we thank you for tuning in to another episode of 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

FIRST we are SO EXCITED to announce the 5 winners of our HomebrewCon Online ticket giveaway! Tune in to see if your name was drawn and check your inbox later today because I’ll have all the details emailed to you if you were one of our winners. Congrats to all who won and, even if you didn’t win, we sincerely hope that you’ll join us on June 18th thru the 20th for the online event. We will be presenting at 4pm Central timezone on June 18th and our talk is titled “IN DEPTH: Draft Beer Systems and Building a Keezer”. We’ve put a lot of work into this presentation and we’re extremely proud with how it turned out so come join us (link to register is here: https://www.homebrewcon.org/ )

We also took your questions and had a great time this week producing the show. Covering topics like the appropriate amount of water when you have specialty grains to steep as part of your extract recipe kit, moving from open transferring to closed transferring during fermentation and bottling/kegging, and also the pros and cons of adding carb stones to the gas dip tubes of your homebrew kegs.

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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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

THANK YOU for tuning in to this episode of 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 feels like it’s been forever since the three of us have been back on the show together, so I’m happy to let you know that Todd and James joined me this week for a very fun-filled episode. Not only did we take your questions but we also discussed the upcoming VIRTUAL #HomebrewCon online where we’ll be giving a presentation on draft beer systems and how to build a keezer. Todd and I made a great video on it that I’m super excited to debut at #HomebrewCon online so I hope you’re able to make it.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT — we have FIVE (5), yes, FIVE tickets to #HomebrewCon online that we’re giving away! The giveaway is open to EVERYONE, however, active members of our Patreon community will get an additional 15 entries for the contest. CLICK HERE TO ENTER: https://www.homebrewhappyhour.com/homebrewcon-online-giveaway/

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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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 and thank you for tuning in to this episode of 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

Jason Weisfeld and Robert Peyser from Kessler Thermometer, a family owned business providing high quality and accurate instruments to various industries since 1934, join Todd and I today to discuss their incredible line of products. Spoiler: no hydrometers were broken by Todd during the recording of this episode!

Accuracy and precision are important to a brewer’s tools and Kessler makes incredibly precise and accurate instruments. You’ll learn a lot from Jason and Robert and I hope you enjoy this week’s episode.

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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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 and thank you for tuning in to another episode of 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 had a great time welcoming Colter Wilson from the Homebrewing DIY podcast on our show today! Colter is an avid homebrewer and DIY enthusiast, so he merged his passions and created the very entertaining and informational “Homebrew DIY Podcast“. Learn more about Colter, his history as a homebrewer, and what led to the creation of his podcast. I think you’re really going to enjoy this episode and you should definitely check out Homebrew DIY and add it to your podcast subscriptions! 

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

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

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of 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 join me and we take YOUR homebrew related questions. We are also very excited to announce that we’re going to be giving a presentation at the upcoming virtual #HomebrewCon ! It’ll be on draft solutions and building a kegerator/keezer. If you haven’t already signed up for #HomebrewCon, consider signing up today. If you aren’t already a member of the American Homebrewers Association, your registration will come with that membership.

It was a great show covering topics such as the possibility of drilling thru the door of a “standard” kegerator , how to deal with foam issues from your draft system (check out the video below for even more info on that topic), and the best practices for dry hopping your beer. It was jam packed with info and I hope you enjoy this episode!

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

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

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of 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 had the pleasure of welcoming the Director of the American Homebrewers Assoication, Mr. Gary Glass! Gary is a long time brewer and has also been with the AHA for a long time. He joined me to discuss the upcoming Virtual Big Brew Day hosted by the AHA and we also talked about his history as a homebrewer and other things because, you know, I have a hard time staying on topic sometimes. It was a fantastic interview and Gary helped provide important information about the event that we hope you sign up for because it should be a ton of fun!

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

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