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May 21, 2016 Episode 21: Farm to Pint 2016
The Farm to Pint event is hosted by Hamburg Brewing Company and the Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association each year to show the many sides of local beer.

Beer is famously made from 4 ingredients in it's "purest" form (I'm looking at you Bavaria): Water, Malted Barley, Hops, and Yeast. The Farm to Pint event is a way to showcase beers made with local malts, local hops, and in one case, local yeast.

For a list of the beers at the 2016 event, and a video from inside the amazing train room at Hamburg Brewing Company, check out WNYBrews.com/episode21

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21 min
May 07, 2016 Episode 20: Short National Homebrew Day Episode
Saturday, May 7th is THe Ameican Homebrew Association's National Homebrew Day. Are you brewing? Are you participating in a Big Brew event? Are you toasting at 12 CDT?

Are you a member of the AHA?

In this special quick episode, I literally join the AHA "on air". I'm now an official member in good standing. I can't believe I haven't done it before now, but I feel better.

Some of the homebrewing laws date back to prohibition. The AHA works to get homebrewing available to everyone.

Also, I talk about DrinkThisBuffalo.com

It's a new feature of the podcast. Call or email in your favorite beers and we'll mention them on the podcast!

http://www.americanhomebrewersassociation.org

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10 min
April 27, 2016 Episode 19: Talking Efficiency with Bert Dyster
The "Golden Dragon" that people often chase is a higher brewhouse efficiency. I understand that I may have made up a nonsensephrase just now, but the point is the same: higher efficiency isthe goal right?

First, Clay and I talk quickly about how he checks his efficiencyat 42 North, then I talk to Bert Dyster of Niagara Traditions about homebrewing efficiency. To get the full show notes, go to WNYBrews.com/episode19
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26 min
April 09, 2016 Episode 18: The Brewers Invitational
This was fun!
The Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association presented the first annual Brewers Invitational at Pettibones Grill in Coca-Cola Field on Saturday, April 2nd. They had over two dozen breweries showing off some experimental flavors!
It seemed to be the "year of the sour" with something like 8 or 9 examples.
Trust me when I say you should listen to the end. The Buffalo Beer League stopped by the WNY Brews table and talked to any brewer who walked by.
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43 min
April 02, 2016 Episode 17: Dyngus Day and a Grodziske with Bill Serowski
Happy Dyngus Day!
Since this is a regional podcast, I asume you're all aware of Dyngus Day. It's the day after Easter, and Dyngus Day is a Polish tradition culminating in a post-lenton festival and parade.

That's at least what it looks like in Buffalo: The Official Dyngus Day Capital of the World. To go back and figure out the history of any holiday, religious or otherwise, gets complicated and difficult. What concerns me more is the celebration of Polish culture. Being Polish and Irish guarantees some spring-time activities and in Buffalo that translates to beer. I've tried to stray away from the Killians, Guiness, and colored German or Canadian lagers in favor of local examples of similar beers.

Aviator Red is my go-to beer while at Schwabls and Hamburg's Irish Red was a nice change, which hit me more bitter than other examples.

In this episode, Clay and I try a Pivo Grodziske from Jopen in Haarlem, Netherlands. It's an historic style from Grodzisk, Poland featuring a 100% smoked-wheat grain bill. The people of Grodzisk, and the former workers of the brewery there, hold a competition each year to see which homebrewer can make the best representation of what this beer used to be.

A Pivo Grodziske in modern times is also known as a Gratzer, taking it's name from the same town but while under Prussian or German rule, although this bottle claims to be based on an older recipe and differs from a Grazer in it's yeast strain.

Sometimes called “Polish Champagne” because of it's carbonation, I found this to be a balanced and understated beer. Samual Adams put out a Gratzer last year as part of their Long Shot 6-pack that packed a significant increase in smoked flavor which overpowered the beer. This example of a Grodziske, in contrast to the Sam Adams offering, is easily drinkable and at 4% would be a great addition to a summer cookout.

Making a Gratzer/Grodziske

One of the members of Das Hausbrauers, Bill Serowski, has been making Gratzers regularly for the past year or so. His beer was featured on episode 59 of Dr. Homebrew, where the panel members admitted a lack of experience with the style. Who can blame them when someone sends them a beer based on a style that is regional to a small Polish town and, of which, the last commercial example has been out of production since 1993?

Bill, a really knowledgeable brewer and BJCP judge, has been working on his recipe and techniques to make a Gratzer he can be proud of.

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25 min
March 17, 2016 Episode 16: AWOG and Becoming a BJCP Judge with Alex Placito
Do you want to become a certified BJCP judge? What about a steward? Do you want to enter a beer into one of the nations largest regional homebrew competitions? Well we have Alex Placito of The Niagara Association of Homebrewers on to talk about the Amber Waves of Grain competition in April.
It's about time to get your entries in, and I wanted to get the full breakdown of becoming a judge (btw, there's a lot of free homebrew in it if you do).
Alex takes us through the judging process, the AWOG particulars, the stewarding process, and the step by step to becoming a judge.
If you want in with the BJCP, check them out at BJCP.org
for info on Amber Waves of Grain, check out AWOG.niagarabrewers.org
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48 min
March 06, 2016 Episode 15: Clay Keel of 42 North

Have you been to 42 North yet?They're in East Aurora and have only been open for a handful of months, but they're already putting out some really impressive beers. You can check out their core beers here.When the 42 North team needed a brewer, they brought in Clay Keel; a Florida native, Army Reservist, Husband, Father, and expert beer-maker.
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25 min
March 05, 2016 Episode 14: The Burg, plus BrewDog Wants You To Brew Their Beer
Have you heard of DIY Dog yet?BrewDog (www.BrewDog.com) is a brewery in The Unighted Kingdom you may have heard about; they have a popular TV show on Esquire called Brew Dogs, on which they travel the United States trying local beers, and their beers can be found around here every so often. (The consumers I went to yesterday didn't have any in stock, but I've gotten them there before).Read more about DIY Dog and BrewDog by clicking on this post.The Most Taps in HamburgIn this episode, we also talk to the owner of The Burg in The Village of Hamburg. Only open for a few short months now, The Burg boasts Hamburg's largest tap list. When I was there, I had a Dogfish Head Higher Math (bottled), and tried a few Sam Adams beers I didn't even know existed.Jeremy and his staff are looking to bring a little bit of the city scene into The Village wih clean, modern bar featuring drinks, food, and music. See more about The Burg by clicking on this post.You can even buy homebrewing kits to make some of their Punk IPA, the World Beer Awards' 2015 Best UK IPA winner, here. But before you click and purchase, BrewDog has done something unprecedented: they've just released a FREE PDF of all of their recipes. They've even scaled them for homebrewers.The PDF is not only HUGE (with 215 recipes), but it's eally beautiful. It also includes a quick homebrewing primer in the beginning to help you along.(All of the links in this post will bring you to BrewDog's website. I thought about just posting the file for you to grab as they're not asking anything in return, but I thought it would be better if you got it from them and took a look around their site.)Want a printed version of the book?Well, BrewDog is the fastest growing brewery in The UK (Scotland to be precice) partly because they're "crowd funding" their operations. You can purchase shares in BrewDog from their website, and as a new investor (or with any additional share purchase for current investors), you will recieve a printed version of the same book.Either way, it looks like the homebrew stores are about to get hit up with some grain orders!Check Out The BurgThe Burg is one of Hamburg's newest establishments and they sport 24 taps! One of the owners sat down with me to talk about what he hopes to do with the well-placed bar and night spot. Listen to the interview, find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/The-Burg-436730273201625/And check out these photos of their tap list on the night I went (Certainly different by now and probably every time you go in!).[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2931.4159091140864!2d-78.84168068453238!3d42.71608697916461!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89d31b52a0ff20a1%3A0x58d775745d3d4c1d!2sTHE+BURG!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1456926405792&w=600&h=450]
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12 min
February 20, 2016 Episode 13: Willard Brooks of The BNBA
Willard Brooks is the president of The Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association. They're a group of brewers and bar owners dedicated to raising the bar (bad pun) in the Buffalo beer scene. Join them at any of their many beer events during the year, the next coming up on April 2nd!
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38 min
February 13, 2016 Episode 12: Jared Gilbert of Cigar City Cider and Mead
Jared Gilbert is the head cider-maker and Mazer (mead-maker) at Cigar City Cider and Mead in Ybor City, Florida. I've been interested in cider recently, and Jared was a fountain of cider and mead knowledge! I think I need to plan a trip to Tampa.You can find them at CigarCityCider.comYou may notice another voice on this episode as well...Clay Keel, the Chief Brewer at 42 North in East Aurora pulls most of the weight during the interview as I was losing my voice and felt like I'd been hit by a truck. You'll be hearing much more of Clay moving forward in this podcast!As we reboot this things faster than a Spiderman franchise, please rate and review us on iTunes by going to WNYBrews.com/rate
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37 min

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