Homebrew Happy Hour

Thank you for joining us for yet another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

Todd and James join me once again for the most fun I’ve had all week. To be fair, it’s been a pretty boring week… KIDDING, Todd!

For this week’s show, I fielded some questions that focused specifically on extract brewing. It’s easy, as an all-grain brewer, to forget how good of beers you can produce from extract reccipes! I, personally, also tend to forget how much and enjoyable an extract brew day can be… specifically, when it comes to the clean up and time management components. I feel like we should produce some #brewday videos doing extract batches; what do you think?

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

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!

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November’s Patreon Featured Recipe: https://www.kegconnection.com/search.php?search_query=Northern%20English%20Brown§ion=product/

https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Thank you for joining us for yet another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

I don’t know where you’re tuning in from but, here in central Texas, it is FINALLY feeling like brewing weather. High 40’s, low 50’s (Fahrenheit, to clarify for our international crowd!) and sunny days. I LOVE IT! I hope you’re having good weather and even better brewing days too.

Matt Bolling from the American Homebrewer’s Association joins me today to discuss the upcoming “Learn to Homebrew Day” which is THIS SATURDAY, November 2nd, 2019. It’s always the first Saturday of November and it is always a good time!

Matt is the Events & Membership Coordinator at the AHA and we’ve known him for a while. If you’ve ever attended any of the events put on by the AHA and/or the BA, you’ve probably seen Matt around or at least experienced a good time thanks to the efforts of Matt and the entire team there at the AHA.

He talks about Learn to Homebrew Day as well other fun stuff such as the other events going on throughout the year, his own homebrewing experience, and the benefits and joys of being a part of a local homebrewing club. I had an absolute blast with Matt and hope to have him on again in the future!

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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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!

Thank you for joining us for yet another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

Todd and James join me for a fun filled episode of the show! We catch up with the birthday boy, Mr. Carlson, about him turning 50. We also are reminded how annoyed Todd gets by me and how much he’s looking forward to me starting to gush about Founder’s Breakfast Stout (can you sense the sarcasm yet?). We also eventually take a couple of questions and it’s this segment of the show that I’m most thankful for Todd and James! Kidding aside —

I would also like to remind everyone that our very first Patreon exclusive LIVE Q&A is THIS FRIDAY (October 25th) at 6pm in our private Facebook group that you can join at ANY level of our Patreon community. The lovely Lorena Evans will be taking your questions and it’s going to be a blast!

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

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!

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October’s Patreon Featured Recipe: https://www.kegconnection.com/koln-kolsch-true-to-style-all-grain-recipe-kit/

https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

Bohemian Pilsner that James brewed –

02:28 – Todd’s idea for promoting our Patreon

We welcome you back to another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

Ladik Joe Ermis from HomebrewSupply.com joins me today and we talk about the brown ale we recently brewed, the newly launched Patreon community (www.Patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour), and we take questions about converting recipes from extract to all grain as well as a question on using Cabernet grapes in a beer recipe. It was a ton of fun and always a blast when Joe gets to come on the 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

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!

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October’s Patreon Featured Recipe: https://www.kegconnection.com/koln-kolsch-true-to-style-all-grain-recipe-kit/

https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

We welcome you back to another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

Todd and James are BOTH able to join me this week to take YOUR questions! Specifically, we talk about using hydrometers and refractometers and we also take a question about better understanding what temperatures are important when setting your brew day timers. It’s a great episode for newer brewers and we appreciate those who continue to send questions in as well as trust us to help you as a new brewer!

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

https://youtu.be/1MxvQGN6O84

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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!

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October’s Patreon Featured Recipe: https://www.kegconnection.com/koln-kolsch-true-to-style-all-grain-recipe-kit/

https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour

It’s time for another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

It’s been a couple of weeks since we released an episode! If you haven’t kept up on our social media (Facebook or Instagram, specifically), a lot has gone on the last several weeks. Between Todd’s neck surgery, my vasectomy (insert sad violin music here), and then my daughter Esther had a week long stay at the hospital for a brain tumor, no kidding! Long story short – everyone is doing fine now. They successfully removed a ganglioglioma tumor from my daughter’s brain, it was benign, and has a less than 10% chance of ever coming back. I want to thank you all for reaching out to me during the whole ordeal and for your thoughts and prayers. Truly, it meant the world to me and our community is the best community ever!

SO – with all that being said, episode 150 features Tyler Sadler; a fantastic homebrewer out of southern California who is brewing up some awesome beers and is very active in her local homebrewer club, the Socal Cerveceros! It was so much fun getting to know her and learn more about her background and future plans in brewing. You definitely need to be following her on Instagram at @TylersBrew

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

01:11 – Introducing Tyler Sadler

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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!

we welcome you to the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

The gang is all back together again! Todd is here, James is here, I am, well, obviously here. If I had enough money to license “Reunited” by Peaches & Herb I would, but just hum it in your head when you first hear us all on together in this episode.

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We are not only back as a threesome, we also take YOUR questions on homebrewing. Specifically, we discuss when to use nitro and why you’d want to PLUS we discuss our favorite way to chill our wort when brewing in Texas: using TWO wort chillers. It isn’t as difficult nor as expensive as you might be thinking it is. Also — here are the keg labels we had made that I talked about on today’s show, since I forgot to inject them into the video. My bad!

This episode was a ton of fun to produce so I hope you enjoy episode 149 of our 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

01:12 – Todd and James are back

03:25 – Todd updates us on his neck

04:15 – Our new keg labels are in!

07:38 – More info on our Patreon launch

09:08 – Patreon bumper I made like a PBS intro

14:14 – First question, “How to use NItro to dispense”

24:44 – Second question, “Using two wort chillers?”

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.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

and we welcome you to the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

Todd’s surgery was a success! He is already home and recovering well, which means that he could not join us today as we’d rather not have a drugged up Todd Burns on the show. Can you imagine his dancing at the beginning of the show being worse than it already is? The thought terrifies me.

With that being said, Handsome James Carlson joins me to take your home brewing related questions on today’s episode. Specifically, we talk about which part of the #brewday process is FLAVOR most affected and we also talk about hot breaks and head retention. It’s actually way more exciting than it probably sounds!

We also announced the winners from our August label contest AND we present our newly launched Patreon page which, as Todd so delicately put it to me over the phone, is a way to show you guys how broke we are and need your money.

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

1:30 James brewing on a 10bbl system this weekend

5:52 Update on Todd, his surgery went well!

8:00 Info on the launch of our Patreon page! (https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappy…)

11:25 Label contest winners announced

17:15 First question, “When is flavor most affected during the brewing process”

29:50 Second question, “does removing hot break affect head retention?”

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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.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

and we welcome you to the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR home brewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

*REAL QUICK* if you haven’t already heard we are hosting a label contest with our friends at StickerYou and the deadline is TOMORROW (August 30th). Get your designs in NOW (click here) for a chance at winning up to $200 in custom printed labels!

Stop me if we’ve posted this before…but… TODD IS BACK! He’s not in top shape but I did get him all set up at his home so he can work comfortably from the “barn” as well as podcast from there. Very exciting stuff!

Todd and Joe join me to discuss some upcoming things we have been preparing for you all and we also take a couple of questions on fermentation temps and taking your beer with you on the go. I had a ton of fun with these guys and I hope you enjoy the 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

Today’s show is brought to you by – StickerYou.com , Brand Your Brew with StickerYou: StickerYou’s online design editor allows you to upload and design your own custom, professional-grade craft brew labels in any shape, any size and any quantity. StickerYou: Make What Matters Stick.

Don’t forget to enter our label making contest thru StickerYou (click here). Upload your original artwork for bottle labels, growler labels, kegging labels, or even your a logo you’ve made for your beer! First prize receives $200 in custom printed labels, second prize gets $175 in custom printed labels, and third prize gets $125 in custom printed labels! Contest runs now thru the end of August. Good luck!

and we welcome you to the Homebrew Happy Hour … the podcast where we answer YOUR homebrewing questions and discuss all things related to craft beer!

James Carlson from CMBecker International is back with me as Todd is still, unfortunately, out of commission. We did get an update on his condition and it turns out that he was TWO herniated discs in his upper spine and is scheduled for corrective surgery in early September. This means a couple of things: 1) He probably won’t be on the show until after his procedure and 2) He’ll probably have some killer pain meds that might make him even goofier than usual. Yes, I will make sure to point this out if/when he’s back on the show and under the influence.

With all that said, we’ve got a fantastic show lined up for you guys! We discuss aging times for Christmas beers (is it too early to be thinking about Christmas brews? We don’t think so!) as well as pH level discrepancies in your strike water versus your sparge water.

It’s questions like these that make me thankful to have James on board because I was really just along for the ride!

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

Today’s show is brought to you by – StickerYou.com , Brand Your Brew with StickerYou: StickerYou’s online design editor allows you to upload and design your own custom, professional-grade craft brew labels in any shape, any size and any quantity. StickerYou: Make What Matters Stick.

Don’t forget to enter our label making contest thru StickerYou (click here). Upload your original artwork for bottle labels, growler labels, kegging labels, or even your a logo you’ve made for your beer! First prize receives $200 in custom printed labels, second prize gets $175 in custom printed labels, and third prize gets $125 in custom printed labels! Contest runs now thru the end of August. Good luck!