Experimental Brewing

It's Episode 11 and experimental results are back! We start with listener feedback - namely, y'all really loved the Session Beer Recipe collection and the Q&A episode. Looks like we're going to have to keep answering questions! At the pub, we talk about how hops are being explored as actual medicine and why sadly this doesn't mean your Quadruple IPA is about to become "healthy", how our sponsor PicoBrew went to 11 for Denny and discuss why we feel that bars and breweries should offer samplers (and why the money crunchers back us up on this assertion). Then to the lab where we comb through the results of Denny's favorite experiment - First Wort Hopping vs. 60 minute bittering. First though we start with listener Tim Hagan's fairly clear explanation of the meaning of P-Value. We also talk about why some folks are encouraging a move away from P-Value as the end all be all of science. And then we dig into the experiment! What new and interesting twists did our IGORs find this time? Is there an actual impact here or are we living in a land of make believe? We go to the Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference where Denny interviews Rodney Kibzey, multiple award winning brewer - no seriously, the man won the Sam Adams Longshot Competition twice. Rodney talks up his "secrets" for winning. So you might want to listen to the man. Denny drops another quick tip from our AHA Forum friends - Don't Get Caught Up With The Shiny Gear! Drew then leaves us with two something other than beers - Falcons nesting at Briess and then, because you, the listeners, asked Drew talks about how he lost 112 lbs in 13 months and still drank beer. Episode Links: Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/ Hops as Medicine - http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/researchers-are-brewing-up-medicines-from-beer-hops/ The Value of Fractional Pours - https://www.brewersassociation.org/articles/the-value-of-fractional-pours/ Rethinking P-value - http://www.stats.org/mismeasure-scientific-significance/ Am Stats of P-value - http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/suppl/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108 Briess Falcon Nest Cam - http://blog.brewingwithbriess.com/new-live-falcon-cam-atop-the-briess-manitowoc-grain-elevator/ Images of Drew's Weightloss - http://imgur.com/a/CF3lL Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:03:28 Theme and Intro 00:05:20 Feedback 00:08:41 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Hops as Medicine, Pico Goes to 11, The Boon of Sampler Flights 00:20:59 Casa Verde Labs - Exploring P-Value and Experimental Results - FWH vs Bittering 00:42:05 The Uke 00:42:36 Medal Secrets with Rodney Kibzey 01:05:37 Q&A wth Denny & Drew 01:25:38 Quick Tip - Don't Get Caught Up 01:27:42 Something Other Than Beer - Briess's Falcon's Nest & Drew's Weight Loss 01:40:04 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: American Homebrewers Association BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Wyeast Labs Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

It's Episode 10 and it's finally time to see if we're as smart as we say we are. We discuss the listener response to our Session Beer efforts and promise to post a kickass list of session beer recipes. (Link below) We run off to the pub and discuss the recently concluded Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference and the lameness of "pink washing" and silly sexism. And then to the lecture hall where "Professors" Denny and Drew sit down and try and see how long they can fake actually knowing anything. For listener ease we've broken the questions up into categories so you can find things more easily. OVer the course of twenty some odd questions we tackle questions about ingredients, process, styles, yeast and everything else. Before we leave, Drew gives a brief shout out to two very impactful passings that recently occurred. One to the man whose decision in the 70's still impacts us to this day. The other, well, that one's more important to Chihuahua owners. Episode Links: Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/ Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference - https://www.pnwhc.com/ PNHBC Presentation Links - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FHaYB-5EqwRs1_G1hHXz1MSvI8oCUOUU... The Session Beer Project - http://sessionbeerproject.blogspot.com/ Session Beer Homebrew Recipe Bonanza - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/content/session-beer-day-recipe-bonanza-... Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:02:13 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:06:31 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference, pinkwashing and unfortunate sexism 00:17:28 The Lecture Hall - Q&A Introduction 00:18:43 Ingredient Questions 00:34:24 Process Questions 01:04:58 Style Questions 01:29:17 Yeast Questions 01:43:52 Miscellaneous Questions 02:04:09 Something Other Than Beer - Ray Tomlinson, Moonie the Chihuahua 02:07:46 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: American Homebrewers Association BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

It's Episode 9 - last call for questions before the big Q&A episode! (Send your questions to questions@experimentalbrew.com) We run off to the pub and discuss feedback abut the potential canning crisis, the unbearable BS of science, the now sold out Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference and Hops in Drew's hometown. And then to the lab where the guys launch the next experiment. Is there a detectable difference between adding Olive Oil as an aeration replacement and just not adding any aeration/oxygen at all! We go into the history of the whole Olive Oil excitement and why they think everyone has it a little wrong. With the approach of Session Beer Day - April 7th - we get beer writer extraordinaire and Session Beer Project creator, Lew Bryson on the phone and go through the history of the project, the beer day and what Lew ultimately wants to achieve! We take a brief detour to provide everyone with some homebrew advice so you can have a session beer of your own on tap for Session Day! Denny drops another quick tip from our AHA Forum friends - this time all about the tool box Drew then leaves us with a musical clip for the ages! Episode Links: Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/ Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference - https://www.pnwhc.com/ The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit - http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/ Florida Hops - http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/02/uf-to-hop-into-hops-varieties-for-m... The Experiment - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/olive-oil-vs-no-aeration The Session Beer Project - http://sessionbeerproject.blogspot.com/ Seen Through a Glass - http://lewbryson.blogspot.com/ Why the PLCB Should Be Abolished - http://noplcb.blogspot.com/ Andrews Sisters with the Supremes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTsBsSngrc Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:02:13 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:07:50 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Can Shortage, THE BS of Science, Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference, Hops in Florida 00:24:30 Casa Verde Labs - Experiment: Olive Oil vs. No Aeration 00:33:18 Session Beer Project with Lew Bryson 01:12:45 Brew A Session Beer! 01:22:17 Quick Tip - The Tool Box 01:24:25 Something Other Than Beer - The Andrew's Sisters 01:27:06 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Episode 8 - Denny and Drew remind listeners about the upcoming Q&A episode. (Send your questions to questions@experimentalbrew.com) They run off to the pub and discuss a potential canning crisis, actual grown up science, the upcoming Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference and Denny's run for the Governing Committee. Then they visit a new location for the podcast - the brewery (who woulda guessed) to discuss the availability of the Idaho 7 hop (currently branded 007 The Golden Hop) and Weyermann's Barke Malt. And then to the lab where the guys are joined by Marshall "Brulosophy" Schott, to discuss the results of the Hop Whirlpool Temperature Test. Does it make a difference if you whirlpool your hops at 120F instead of 170F. (In theory, fewer hop oils get volatilized at the lower temp). What was the result? Listen! Once again, hoppy times are brought to you by NikoBrew.com! Back to the Bay Area - no not the San Francisco Bay Area - the Tampa Bay Area where Drew conducts an interview with Brian Fenstermacher at his homebrew store turned nanobrewery - Southern Brewing & Winemaking. Brian has a long history in the craft brewing industry and eventually ended up opening a great homebrew store. Unable to leave the beer world completely behind, he turned the homebrew store into a nano brew with an impressive 24 taps being brewed on a nano-scale. Listen to the interview to discover the incredibly intricate system he's created for his brewers to keep that variety running! Denny and Drew take your questions and lie about all of their answers. Denny drops another quick tip from our AHA Forum friends about creating a quick chilled carbonated sample of your beer to let you speedily evaluate your beer. Marshall then drops in with his love of music on our "Something Non-Beery" segment. Episode Links: Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/ Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference - https://www.pnwhc.com/ AHA Governing Committee Election - http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/membership/aha-governing-committee... 007 Golden Hop - http://www.yakimavalleyhops.com/007_TheGoldenHop16oz_p/hops0071-2015crop... Weyermann Barke Pilsner Malt - https://bsgcraftbrewing.com/barke-line The Experiment - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/hop-whirlpool-does-steeping-... Southern Brewing and Winemaking - http://www.southernbrewingwinemaking.com/ Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:02:25 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:05:57 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Can Shortage, Actual Science, Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference, AHA Governing Committee Election 00:18:15 The Brewery - 007 Golden Hop, Barke Malt 00:26:00 Casa Verde Labs - Experiment #2 Results - Whirlpool Hopping 00:51:33 Southern Brewing & Winemaking in Tampa 01:44:38 Uke Break! 01:45:09 Q&A with Denny & Drew 02:03:45 Quick Tip - Quick Carbonated Samples 02:05:11 Something Other Than Beer - Marshall's Music 02:07:12 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Episode 7 - Denny and Drew take a spin through listener reactions to the first experiment results unleashed online and in the podcast. Then it's off to the pub where they discuss the rise of homebrewing around the globe (focused on an article about Indian homebrewers), Denny wields the eraser of correction about the beers he tried from Barrel of Monks and Drew talks up Lew Bryson's Session Beer Day project. And then to the lab where the guys launch the next experiment - all about the First Wort Hop. This time out the crew is set on re-creating Denny's classic experiment that yielded inconclusive results about FWH. Ignore the recipe content in the podcast because the IGORs asked for a recipe change and who are the guys to deny them that? Once again, hoppy times are brought to you by NikoBrew.com! Time to announce the podcast's first charity project - Freedom Service Dogs of America. They're dedicated to rescuing and training shelter dogs to serve as support animals for the disabled, including returning vets. Join the podcast as a Patreon supporter to help rescue some pups! Back to the Bay Area for one last time as the gang returns to Faction Brewing in Alameda and the wide ranging Rodger Davis. We clarify (maybe) Rodger's dry hopping procedure for his infinitely hoppy beers. The guys talk through a bunch of other things like the love/not love of fork lifts, his team - the genesis of the White Stout style (found the culprit!) and his experimental hop series. (WARNING - Rodger is also prolific with his utterances and we're still working out where the line is and whether or not we caught them all - so be careful in this segment with the kids if you don't want them learning some words!) Finally Denny and Drew take your questions. Quick announcement about questions - looks like every 10th episode, the show will become an all (mostly?) Q&A show - so get your questions in and see how long you can make D&D answer questions! Denny takes a tip from Jeff Gladish about blending and Drew recommends a few new choice selections for your reading library (of non-beery things) So, are you guys psyched to get your First Wort Hop on? Episode Links: Experiment Writeup - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/writeups/writeup-yeast-compa... Freedom Service Dogs - https://freedomservicedogs.org/ Indian Homebrewing Scene - http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/giving-beer-an-indian-twist/a... Barrel of Monks - http://www.barrelofmonks.com/ Lew Bryson Session Day - http://sessionbeerproject.blogspot.com/2016/01/session-beer-day-2016-is-... Experiment #3 - FWH vs Bittering - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/comparing-first-wort-hopping... Faction Brewing Co - http://factionbrewing.com/ Book Nook: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (http://amzn.to/1STx0a8), The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (http://amzn.to/1nzRg3m) Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:02:20 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:07:31 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Indian Homebrewing, Barrel of Monks Correction, Session Beer Project Day 00:19:59 Casa Verde Labs - Experiment #3 Announcement - FWH Hopping vs. Bittering 00:31:46 Rodger Davis at Faction Brewing, Pt 2! 01:07:02 Q&A with Denny & Drew 01:24:00 Quick Tip - Blending 01:25:02 Something Other Than Beer - Drew's Book Nook 01:29:47 Question of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Episode 6 - Denny and Drew look to even more listener feedback. In the pub we promulgate a public service announcement near and dear to Denny's heart, investigate rumors of nefarious hop dealings and reminisce about Denny's time in the big snowy territory of Vail. And then we go to the lab where we discuss the first ever results delivered by our IGOR crew. Is there a discernable difference between Wyeast 1056 and WLP001? Marshall "Brulosopher" Schott of Brulosophy.com joins us to provide his view on the data provided by our IGORs and the vast swath of tasters. Back to the Bay Area we're onto Faction Brewing in Alameda and the ever voluble Rodger Davis. This is part one of two parts thanks to all the stories Rodger has at his disposal! Finally we take your questions, Drew talks about pressure and Denny remembers David Bowie and Alan Rickman. So, what do you guys think of our results? Do you agree? Disagree? Try brewing the test yourself and see what you find! Episode Links: Dangers About Grapefruit - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/blogs/dennyanddrew/dangers-brewing-grape... YCH Hops - http://ychhops.com/ Big Beers Festival - Vail - http://www.bigbeersfestival.com/ Experiment 1 - Wyeast 1056 vs WLP001 - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/yeast-comparison-same-strain... Experiment 1 - Wyeast 1056 vs WLP001 - Writeup - Brulosophy - http://brulosophy.com/ Faction Brewing Co - http://factionbrewing.com/ Pressure Racking with CO2 - http://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/racking-co2 Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:01:53 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:07:23 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Grapefruit, Hop Crisis, Vail 00:21:20 Casa Verde Labs - Experiment #1 Results with Marshall Schott 00:47:40 Rodger Davis at Faction Brewing 01:28:32 Ukulele Break! 01:29:02 Q&A with Denny & Drew 01:43:44 Quick Tip - Under Pressure 01:46:11 Something Other Than Beer - Bowie & Rickman 01:51:11 Queston of the Week, Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Episode 5 - Denny and Drew look back at the Brew Year's Resolutions where we've had a bunch of feedback from listeners. We talk in the pub about the latest in acquisitions with the sweet spicy addition of hypocrisy - throw in a little competition and Denny's soon to be appearance in Vail. After that we return to the lab to present our second experiment. This time we're exploring if throwing hops into a whirlpool steep at a lower temperature (120F) makes a qualitative difference in the beer over throwing them in at the "new" recommended temperature of 170F. In theory, 120F should preserve more of the volatile aromatic compounds we care about, but does it actually matter? Back to the Bay Area we go with a pint at Oakland's very lovely Trappist where we talk with Nick Impellitteri of the Yeast Bay about his unique take on a yeast company and what he truly enjoys in regards to the little critters. He's got some fun directions he's hoping to take things and who knows - they may be future cross collaborations to happen! Finally we take your questions, Denny provides a little lesson in French and Drew tells us about the latest gadget he's gotten in his ill advised attempts to explode his heart via caffeine consumption. How about it, our fellow scientists - Are you ready for some hopping?!? Episode Links: Breckenridge Comments in the Denver Post - http://blogs.denverpost.com/beer/2015/02/15/colorado-craft-brewery-sell/... Doug King Memorial Competition - http://competitions.maltosefalcons.com/ Big Beers Festival - Vail - http://www.bigbeersfestival.com/ Experiment 2 - Hop Whirlpool Steeping Temperatures - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/hop-whirlpool-does-steeping-... The Yeast Bay - http://www.theyeastbay.com The Trappist - http://www.thetrappist.com/ Toddy Brewing System - http://amzn.to/1OymlyK Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:01:16 Theme and Intro and Listener Feedback 00:06:27 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Lady Justice Brewing & BrewTube 00:19:35 Experiment #2 Whirlpools from the Casa Verde Labs 00:29:38 Ukulele Break! 00:30:00 The Yeast Bay with Nick Impellitteri at the Trappist 01:02:36 Q&A with Denny & Drew 01:18:41 Quick Tip - Mise en Place 01:21:09 Something Other Than Beer - The Toddy 01:24:59 Wrap up and Coming Attractions This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Episode 4 - Denny and Drew reflect on the feedback we received about our discussion of the decline of homebrewing before we head to the Pub to talk about socially conscious brewing projects like Lady Justice Brewing in Denver and we talk about the Brew Tube community and how they're coming together after a loss. After that we return to Casa Verde to make plans and let the universe laugh at us as we reveal what our Brew Years Resolutions are. Seriously, that's just asking for failure. We'll see in a year no matter how much Denny protests the topic! Back to the Bay Area we go with another round of San Francisco treats as we bring you our first listener tasting ever. Things get a little dicey and Drew has to run. Warning the audio does get a little hairy! Note to listeners - if you know we'll be somewhere, feel free to bring beer for us to taste. It's a mandate of our parole from the Gambrinus Asylum for the Brewingly Insane that we taste your beer and offer critiques. Be warned though - you may end up on the air! Tasting concluded, we head to San Leandro and Rancho El Sully aka the 21st Amendment's gobsmackingly awesome production brewery in a former Kellogg's factory. We spend quite a bit of time chatting up one of the friendliest people in the brewing world, Shaun O'Sullivan and he reveals what it's like to grow from a wee little brewpub to a gianormous beer factory. Back in the lab, we take your questions about batch sparging, homebrew ruts, terrifying beer concepts and Denny's hair care regimen. Before we leave you for the episode, Drew also talks a little beer chemistry you should all know! Episode Links: Lady Justice Brewing - http://ladyjusticebrewing.com/ Homebrewing on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_DYvrZif5zbybUsgQoo2Uw The Time4Another1 Brew Tube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/Time4Another1 MoreBeer - http://www.morebeer.com/ The 21st Amendment - http://21st-amendment.com/ Spring Time in Amarillo - Drew's favorite "safe" beer to rebrew - http://www.stoutguy.com/beer/recipes/Springtime_in_Amarillo.html Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:01:16 Theme and Intro! 00:03:56 Listener Feedback 00:06:35 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - Lady Justice Brewing & BrewTube 00:14:03 Experimental Catchup and Brew Year's Resolutions from Casa Verde 00:29:01 Ukulele Break! 00:29:30 Live Listener Beer Tasting & Troubleshooting 00:37:24 Interviewing Shaun O'Sullivan at the 21st Amendment Brewery 01:04:30 Q&A with Denny & Drew 01:16:49 Quick Tip - Destroying Beerstone 01:19:00 Wrap up 01:21:40 Boogie of the Bells (full version for your holiday dancing!) This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

PROFANITY WARNING - There are a few unbleeped blue utterances in this podcast - if you're sensitive to blueness, please wear headphones! In Episode 3 - Denny and Drew start out in the Pub talking about a distressing topic - the possible decline of homebrewing, the causes and what all of us can do about it. Then we get into the real meat of our whole show as we head into the Experimental Brewing Labs in Casa Verde - it's experimentation time! Back in Episode 1 we walked you through a triangle test, now it's time to use it! In this episode, we'll describe the experiment and a few episodes down the line, we'll bring you the results of the IGORs testing and take your results as well! Then we're off to the Bay Area, where if you read our blog, you'll know we talked to a bunch of brewers - this week, we bring you our interview with Jay Goodwin of the Rare Barrel in Berkeley as he drops a bunch of sour beer knowledge on our puny little heads. We'll then take your questions and see if we can't start a fight between Denny & Drew before Denny gives you a little working knowledge about your pump head and then talks to you about his love for the world's favorite silly instrument - the ukulele! Episode Links: Experiment Description - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/yeast-comparison-same-strain... Recipe - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/magnum-blonde-no-aroma-variant The Rare Barrel - https://www.therarebarrel.com/ Ohana Music (aka Denny's Ukulele's of choice) - http://www.ohana-music.com/ Survivor Girl Ukulele Band - Drew kept getting the name wrong, but check out one of the best uses for music - http://www.sgub.org/ Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:01:40 Theme and Intro! 00:04:50 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub - The Decline of Homebrewing 00:16:59 Experiments - Our first experiment - WLP001 vs. Wyeast 1056 00:26:07 Live at the Rare Barrel with Jay Goodwin 01:03:03 Q&A with Denny & Drew 01:14:34 Quick Tip - Keeping Your Head Clear 01:16:04 Other Things We Recommend: Ukulele & The Ukulele Survivor Girl Project 01:18:58 Wrap up This episode is brought to you: BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Episode 2 - Denny and Drew talk about the rise of the brewing robots and what they mean for us homebrewers. Are our "jobs" about to be farmed out to a microchip that can make better beer than we can before we've have our morning coffee? Is it really still brewing if a computer is doing all the watching? Also, what does it mean to be Craft Beer? Table of Contents: 00:00:00 - Our sponsors 00:01:16 - Theme and Intro! 00:02:30 - Our Sponsorship Pledge and Patreon 00:05:00 - The Beer Life (from the Experimental Brewing Pub) 00:05:55 - The IGOR Program 00:07:40 - Everything is Craft Beer 00:18:00 - The Rise of the Robots 00:33:35 - Q&A with Denny & Drew 00:44:20 - Quick Tip of the Week (with a bonus quick tip as well!) 00:48:55 - Other Things We Recommend 00:50:50 - Our Question of the Week - Are automated brewing gadgets really brewing? - let us know at questions@experimentalbrew.com 00:51:20 - The Wrapup This week's episode is brought to you: PicoBrew - http://www.picobrew.com/ Craftmeister - http://www.craftmeister.com/ BrewCraft USA - http://www.brewcraftusa.com/ NikoBrew - http://nikobrew.com/ Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

In Between Episode Travel Announcement! (Next episode on 11/23) Denny and Drew will be in San Francisco (ok, the East Bay Area - mostly) this Friday and Saturday at the MoreBeer Los Altos, MoreBeer San Leandro and MoreBeer Concord. Come on out and meet us! We'll have books for sale and we'll take your abuse or questions! Details on the site! - http://www.experimentalbrew.com/content/meet-denny-and-drew-bay-area-112... Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

Holy Schnikes Batman - it's the first ever episode of Experimental Brewing with Denny and Drew. In this episode, you'll hear Drew actually be right (according to Denny) about the recent spate of craft beer mergers, the absolutely fundamental bedrock technique of triangle testing, Guinness, statistics and math (wait did that survive the edit? if not, expect an article - cause Drew loves the story!) and lastly, Drew tries to convince us that Pumpkin isn't a terrible waste of time, even if it usually is! (See Recipe below mentioned in the episode.) Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at igor@experimentalbrew.com. We want more Citizen Science! Many thanks to our sponsors for this fine show - Craft Meister - Makers of Akaline Brewery Wash, BrewCraft USA - Top Quality Supplier to Top Homebrew Shops and Imperial Yeast - America's First Canned and Organic Yeast. Visit our sponsors and give them a shoutout! Pumpkin Saison Potiron Recipe For 6 gallons at 1.078, 18 IBUs, 13 SRM, 9.5%ABV Malt/Grain/Sugar 13.75 lbs Maris Otter Malt 1.0 lbs Dark English Brown Sugar 1 can (1.8lbs) Pumpkin Puree (dehydrate in the oven for extra oomph) 0.5 lbs Biscuit Malt 0.38 lbs Crystal 75L (Bairds) 0.38 lbs German Wheat Malt Mash at 152F for 50 minutes Hops 1.0 oz Styrian Goldings 5.4%AA for 60 minutes 0.5 oz Czech Saaz 3.0%AA for 20 minutes Yeast WLP 565 Belgian Saison I Pitch cold - 63-65F, let rise - no spices! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss

Listen to the dulcet tones of one Mr. Denny Conn as he explains to you what Experimental Brewing with Denny and Drew will be all about! That's right two of your "favorite" authors - Drew Beechum and Denny Conn are bringing you a new show about the wackiness of beer science and the science of beer wackiness! Where's Drew? Why isn't he in the trailer? Has he turned to the Dark Side of the Force? You'll just have to wait and see for when the podcast drops on November 11th (or the 18th - things are a bit wishy washy in the world of the Internet)! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at podcast@experimentalbrew.com. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to questions@experimentalbrew.com! Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss