The Brewing Network Presents | Dr. Homebrew

We love it when guests send in beer - that's how they become guests in the first place, but still .. it's pretty cool. We love it even more when they send in some commercial beer, and that's what our first guest Paul did! He sent us some Midwest beers for all of our hard, hard work, which was very nice of him. So we went fairly easy on his American Brown Ale because that's what you do when you get bribed. We also chat with Clifton who sent in a Wheat Wine!

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The show starts off with a bit of singing, mainly due to the Imperial Stouts we were drinking on the last show. We move in to the show with an American Stout from Scott, who has been on a couple of times, and we chat with Erik who made an Imperial Black IPA. Hey, we don't know either, but we tried it anyway.

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It's the Imperial Stout show, as both of our homebrew guests have sent in their best for evaluation. Brian got a bit freaked out about Neil's labels, which happened to be GrogTags! His beer was aged in rye whiskey barrels, and that really shows through in the finished product. Michael's beer was no slouch either, as he capped off our one-two punch of high-ABV beers.

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Another show, talking about homebrew! Jonas joins us from Sweden, and he sent in a mead for us to try. We don't get too many bottles of this particular style, so we were excited to scrape all the Swedish wax off the crown and get to judging. Then JP jumps under the knife, as he whips out his Oatmeal Stout for close examination.

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Tonights show has some cool beer styles on it, and we were excited to break them open! We had a Scottish Export/80 from Keith, and a Blonde Ale from Chris, who made the journey into the studio for the show. We give some prizes away and have fun drinking homebrew!

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It's always nice when our guests are in studio. Today, Ernie came back to share his Helles with us. He wasn't super happy with it, and wanted a second opinion. Then we talk with Matt again, who sent in his Brown Ale. Two of the three bottles had some weird contaminant, which was interesting to taste through. Ernie got so out of control he dropped his tasting glass into his pint glass and created a pretty nice shank.

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We had a full studio for this one, as three homebrewing friends came in to torture JP with their version of a Vermont IPA. Normally, that "style" is cloudy and murky and looks like someone poured orange juice into a glass of dirty dishwater, but Brendan, John, and Leo wanted to brew a clear batch to see if they could get those same smooth flavors without the added flour and yeast. Spoiler alert: they did. Then we do another commercial calibration, this time with the classic Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Grab yourself a six-pack of this go-to pale and taste along with us!

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It’s the alumni show, apparently, as both guests are veteran Dr. Homebrew patients. Dan, who currently works at Junkyard Brewing in Minnesota, sends us an oak-aged quad with Brett and clocks in at 10.4% ABV! Then it’s Matt, who sends us an IPA. He already made some tweaks to the recipe and has brewed his second batch, but it was cool to talk to him about why he made the changes he made and to see if what he did was what Dr. Homebrew would suggest.

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Episode 80 of Dr. Homebrew is a good one. We talk with Chris who sent us his Imperial stout made with coffee and vanilla, and it’s really good. Unfortunately we only had two bottles of the stuff because JP broke one in the fridge, because he’s clumsy. Then we talk with Dan, who in addition to being a homebrewer, also works for a commerical brewery called Junkyard brewing in Minnesota. He sent in two giant cans of something called a “dark ale”, which we deemed more like a Baltic Porter, made with toasted coconut chips. One can was aged in a bourbon barrel and the other was straight, so we got to taste both side-by-side, which was really something. ixnpfaen

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