Following his quick trip to Minnesota for Homebrew Con 2017 (www.homebrewcon.org), Brian shares some of the beers he brought back with John Duffy, "The Beer Nut" (https://thebeernut.blogspot.ie/). APOLOGIES FOR THE SOUND QUALITY! Thanks to Elsa and Chip of Chop and Brew (http://chopandbrew.com/) for providing the beers. Listen to the audio version of the show here: Episode 28 Watch on YouTube here: The beers we sampled were: Spring Saison 4.7% - Summit Brewing, St. Paul MN http://www.summitbrewing.com/ https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/summit-unchained-24-spring-saison/497408/ Extra Pale Ale 5.1% - Summit Brewing, St. Paul MN https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/summit-extra-pale-ale/7344/ Bent Hop Golden IPA 6.5% - Bent Paddle, Duluth MN http://www.bentpaddlebrewing.com/ https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bent-paddle-bent-hop-golden-ipa/208655/ Xtra Citra 4.5%- Surly Brewing, Minneapolis MN http://surlybrewing.com/ https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/surly-xtra-citra-pale-ale/398459/ Dark Infusion Stout 8.5% - Summit Brewing, St. Paul MN https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/summit-unchained-23--dark-infusion/461460/ Whalezbrah 7.5% - Surly Brewing, Minneapolis MN https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/surly-whalezbrah/522518/

At the Alltech Craft Brews and Food Fair 2017, John "The Beer Nut" Duffy caught up with Scott Baigent of Eight Degrees Brewing. Stay tuned for more from Alltech '17 coming soon. Listen here: Minisode - 8 Degrees at Alltech Watch on YouTube here: The Beer Nut blog: thebeernut.blogspot.ie Eight Degrees Brewing: http://www.eightdegrees.ie/

John and Craddock and Nigel Comerford present some of their latest homebrews to Chip Walton, visiting from Minnesota. Check out the audio version of the episode here: Episode 25 See the Youtube version here: Don't forget Chip's show Chop and Brew, check it out here: www.youtube.com/chopandbrew Recipes for all beer used in the episode will be added soon.

Watch Brian turn an stc1000 into a proper fermentation temperature controller, and how does storage of beer affect the flavour. It's Episode 23 of the icbshow! Download the audio version here: Episode 23 Watch the show on YouTube here: I got my stc1000 on ebay, always seems to be plenty on there in or around €10. http://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR4.TRC0.A0.H0.Xstc1000.TRS0&_nkw=stc1000&_sacat=0 Listen here:

30 beers in the RDS. At the 2015 Irish Craft Beer Festival I stuck a camera in the face of unsuspecting craft beer fans to talk about what they were drinking. Here are 30 short beer reviews. Irish Craft Beer Festival 2016 will be on 8th - 10th September in the Industries Hall at the RDS. Download the audio version here: Episode 22 Watch the show on YouTube here: http://www.irishcraftbeerfestival.ie/ Listen here:

Reuben Gray joins Brian to brew an American Pale Ale, and to sample some craft beers from across the pond. Download the audio version here: Episode 21 - American Beers The beers we enjoyed were the following: Contact High Hoppy Wheat Ale - 4 Hands Brewing Co. Cast Iron Oatmeal Brown - 4 Hands Brewing Co. Rookery Rye IPA - Atlas Brewing Co. Two Hearted Ale - Bells Brewery Mojo IPA - Boulder Beer Co. Hop Crisis - 21st Amendment Brewery And of course the old favourite: Metalman Pale Ale - Metalman Brewing The recipe for the beer we brewed, Long Hot Summer APA 20l batch 5kg Minch Pale Ale Malt 0.4kg Munich Malt 0.25kg Crystal 120 EBC 0.2kg Wheat Malt (All hops in pellet form) 25g Magnum 60mins 20g Amarillo/20g Citra 15mins 20g Amarillo/20g Citra 5mins 20g Amarillo/20g Citra 0mins Whirlfloc added at 15mins Yeast Cal Ale WLP001 NOTE: After 48 hours the fermentation hadn't kicked off so I added a sachet of US-05. Everything went smoothly after that. Beer tasting will be in a future episode. Check out Reuben's blog, The Tale of Ale Watch the episode on YouTube here:

John "The Beer Nut" Duffy joins Brian for part 2 of our coverage of the Alltech Craft Brew and Food Fair 2016, at The Convention Centre in Dublin. Join us as we chat with some of the newer Irish brewers exhibiting at the festival, while also checking out the Dublin Beer Cup. We also catch up with Sarah Finney of the 5 Minutes of Finney show, who was exhibiting her first commercial beer. Download the audio version here: Episode 20 - Alltech 2016 Part 2 5 Minutes of Finney: http://www.5minfinney.com/ St. Mel's Brewing Company http://www.stmelsbrewing.com/ Wild Bat Beer http://www.wildbatbeer.com/ Galway Hooker http://www.galwayhooker.ie/ Five Lamps Brewing http://the5lampsbrewery.com/  Rye River http://www.ryeriverbrewingco.com/ Watch the episode on YouTube here:

John "The Beer Nut" Duffy joins Brian on the floor of the Alltech Craft Brew and Food Fair 2016, at The Convention Centre in Dublin. Join us as we chat with some of the newer Irish brewers exhibiting at the festival. Download the audio version here: Episode 19 - Alltech 2016 Part 1 For more information, check out the following links. Alltech Craft Brews and Food Festival: http://eu.alltechbrewsandfood.com/ Independent Brewing: http://independentbrewing.ie/ Wood Key Brewing: http://woodkeybrewing.ie/ Rascals Brewing Co: http://rascalsbrewing.com/ Soulwater Creative Beer Project: http://soulwaterbeer.com/ Boyne Brewhouse: http://www.boynebrewhouse.ie/ Wild Bat Beer: http://www.wildbatbeer.com/ N17 Brewery: http://www.n17.com/ Watch the episode on YouTube here:

The Irish Craft Beer Show hits the rails to visit the Boyne Valley Fruit Farm, home of Dan Kelly's cider. Join Olan McNeece as he brings us on a tour of his family orchard, and lets us sample some cider.  Download the audio version here: Episode 18 Audio For more info please visit: http://www.dankellyscider.com/ Watch the episode on YouTube here: Listen here:

Brian is joined by Emmet Ryan to brew some beer, and by John Craddock to drink some beer. Today we try and find out what effect different yeast strains have on the same beer. One batch of Pale Ale is split between four yeast strains, and we taste the results. Homebrew Science!!!!! Download the audio version here: Episode 17 Audio Check out Emmet's The Pint of View Episode 5 recorded on the same day: https://youtu.be/tJPIZigjS_Y Watch the episode on YouTube here: