Brew Strong, with hosts Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer, combines the two most prominent authors and figures in homebrewing today in a live beer radio format that allows listeners to pose beginning and advanced brewing questions to expert hosts and guests from the Craft Beer industry. Designed as a brewing geek's must-listen show, Brew Strong is your source for cutting edge beer and brewing information, answers to technical questions, as well as a guide to a greater appreciation of all thin ...
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Brew Strong | Preserving Fresh Hops with Blue Lake Hops
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Making a fresh hop, or wet hop, beer has always been on Mother Nature's timeline. The hops are ready when they are ready and you had better be ok with that. On today's show, the boys talk to Adrian from a company out of Michigan called Blue Lake Hops. These folks have developed a process for preserving fresh-off-the-bine whole cone hops without the…
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Brew Strong | Question And Answer With Travis and Michael
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Justin dips into Jamil's mail bag this week, as Michael and Travis guide homebrewers through some tough questions. The boys talk about stir plates for large batches, different ways to add extract to wort, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Drew Barnes, President of Blichmann Engineering
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Long-time sponsors and friends of the show, Blichmann Engineering, recently had a change in ownership. Drew Barnes worked his way up from the ground floor to becoming the President - and owner - of the entire company! On today's show, the boys chat with Drew and figure out what drove him to homebrewing in the first place, and what his plans are at …
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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Jamil and the crew invite Michael "Mufasa" Ferguson back for another round of Question and Answer! Topics include: High Gravity Brewing, Bottle Carbonation, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Decoction Mashing with Michael "Mufasa" Ferguson
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Decoction mashing has been something of a debate in homebrewing for decades - should you do it, should you not? To add to this conversation, Jamil and the boys invited good friend of the BN Michael "Mufasa" Ferguson on the show to talk about his thoughts on decoction mashing, and to offer some tips on how to do it the right way! Learn more about yo…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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It's time for more answers to listener questions! On today's show, the guys are fielding more great homebrewing questions - some are even from this year! Topics include water pH adjustments, the best way to ferment lagers, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | What In the World Is "CoolPooling", Anyway?
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It feels like there's no end to the growing list of terms homebrewers have to learn in order to continue making the best beer possible - which is a good thing, as it means the hobby is still growing! Today, we talk about what "ColdPooling" is, how you do it properly, and why you would even want to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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We're dippin' into the mail bag again to answer your questions, and this week we have a lot of great ones. Topics include reusing yeast (and when to avoid it), capturing CO2 from your fermenter, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | How To Deal With A Stuck Fermentation
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Look, it happens to everyone eventually. You do your best to make sure those little yeast cells have what they need to have a great ferment, but somehow it all goes wrong. On today's show, the boys talk about how to tell if your fermentation is stuck, what you can do about it, and ways to prevent it from happening in the first place. Learn more abo…
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Brew Strong | The Blichmann Retirement Party at Alibi Ale Works
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John Palmer joins Jamil on this LIVE episode of Brew Strong, as we gather to wish John Blichmann a happy retirement from Alibi Ale Works! Kevin, brewer and owner of Alibi, sits in to discuss his path to commercial brewing, and everyone has some nice things to say about John Blichmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Homebrew Question and Answer
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It's another mail bag day on Brew Strong - with some live questions tossed in for good measure! Today, the fellas talk about sanitizing gas line, the proper way to add dried malt extract to your boil, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Mash Hopping With Scott Janish
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Mash Hopping is a practice that has had its moments of popularity in the past, but never caught on in any large way. On today's show, Jamil, Travis, and Michael talk with Scott Janish about why homebrewers should be revisiting the mash hop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Listener Question and Answer
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The boys get right to it, grabbing your homebrewing questions right from the internet and delivering the answers back to you, via that very same internet. On today's show, Jamil and the gang address fermentation issues, how to add ghost peppers to a porter, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Answers To Your Fermentation Questions
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Fermentation is probably the single most important thing to get right in brewing, so no wonder we spend so much time on it. On today's show, Jamil, Travis, and Michael jump into listener questions about topics such as fermenter geometry, pitch rate calculators, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer with Neil Spake
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Holding over from the last show, special guest Neil Spake joins Jamil, Travis, and Michael for another round of brewing questions! The boys talk fermenting under pressure, hot side aeration, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | How To Plan a Beer-Focused Trip To England
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Today's show is focused on one thing - planning a drinking trip to England. Jamil and Michael are veterans at this, and have some great tips to help you plan your next getaway. They invite their good friend Neil Spake on to help round out any good advise they might miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Question And Answer With Travis and Michael
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Time to dust off the books, because it's another Question and Answer session! Jamil, Michael, and Travis take us through some tips, tricks, and one-of-a-kind homebrewing answers that are sure to help anyone's homebrewing game! The boys talk water chemistry, homebrewing pumps, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Fermentation Tips and Tricks
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Fermentation is the most important factor in brewing successful beer. If your yeast are stressed for whatever reason, they won't perform at their best. On today's show, Jamil, Michael, and Travis discuss some fermentation tips and tricks to get your yeasts churning out the most desirable flavors possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…
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Brew Strong | Adam Mills and the New Wave of Thiolized Yeast in Brewing
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If you pay attention to the beer scene at all, you likely have heard about Thiols - those compounds usually found in hops that contribute to a beer's fruity flavors. some of those compounds can be helped along and improved with certain yeast strains, so to explain this cutting edge of brewing science, long-time BN listener and craft brewer Adam Mil…
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Brew Strong | Avi Shayevitz From Lallemand Talks Yeast
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Jamil knows a lot about yeast, but sometimes he has to bring in an expert. On today's show, Jamil sits down with Avi Shayevitz, from the research and development wing of the Lallemand yeast company. Lallemand has been making high-quality dry yeast for years now - for both brewing and winemaking - and has been a big player in raising the bar on dry …
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Brew Strong | Question And Answer With Travis and Michael
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Back for more homebrewing questions, Jamil somehow conned his good friends Travis and Michael to join him as he journeys deep into the mind of our homebrewing listeners. The crew chats about how to properly use fresh hops in beers, the right way to utilize alpha acid calculations, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho…
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Brew Strong | Question And Answer With Travis and Michael
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Jamil is joined once again by Travis and Michael, taking on topics from across the homebrewing spectrum. Amino Acids, yeast harvesting, dry hopping, and more are all covered by these three long-time homebrewing experts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | The Two Johns Talk Tech
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On this episode of Brew Strong, Jamil sits down with John Blichmann and his old pal John Palmer for a wide-ranging conversation on technology in the brewing industry. Topics range from new yeast discoveries, malt breads, and, of course, some cool gadgets Blichmann is cooking up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer With Michael and Travis
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Jamil is back with Travis and Michael! On today's show, the boys talk about the best ways to make adjustments to an All-Grain recipe conversion, how much time yeast should be left in your starter, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Homebrew Question and Answer ( with Travis and Michael)
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Travis and Michael are back to help Jamil answer the most urgent of homebrewing questions from 5 years ago! The boys tackle some good stuff on today's show, covering yeasts plating, recipe formulation, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer with Travis Combel and Michael Persyn
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Jamil is back with his two brewing buddies Travis and Michael to answer your homebrewing questions! The guys cover top cropping issues, how to make great beer using extract, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer with Travis Combel and Michael Persyn
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This week on Brew Strong, Jamil invites Travis back for another round of listener questions! Joined by Michael Persyn, the three tackle the mail bag once more to bring answers to your burning homebrewing questions. Topics include how to brew Evil 3, upscaling recipes, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer With Travis Combel
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Travis Combel is back with Jamil for the second leg of this Question and Answer show! Listener homebrewing questions this week ranged from new hop products to yeast pitch rates to how to make non-alcoholic beers at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer With Travis Combel
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More of your questions pulled from the ether! Jamil invited Travis back on the show to help answer more listener emails, and this one went in several directions. The fellas chat about high ABV beers, the best places to drink in England, and the sanitary conditions of pizza stones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Attaboy Brewing talks Cold IPA and more!
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Jamil dives deep into the waters of Cold IPA with the folks from Attaboy Brewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Henry Kirk of Gale's Prize Old Ale Fame
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Jamil recently had the pleasure of traveling to England to brew one of his favorite beers of all time - Gale's Prize Old Ale. Today on the show, he chats with brewer Henry Kirk and friend of the show Neil Spake about the whole experience, and what makes a great Old Ale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Hop Q and A with Scott Janish
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Jamil welcomes back author and brewer Scott Janish to Brew Strong! Scott is an expert in the arena of hop chemistry, and brings his vast knowledge to the Brew Strong Mail Bag this week. The guys talk hop extracts, dry hopping timings, hop blending, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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Jamil reaches deep into the mail bag and tackles your homebrewing questions! Tonight's guest is JP, from the wonderful show Dr. Homebrew! What he's doing here is anyone's guess, really. Jamil and Jp talk about yeast starters, lagering temperature profiles, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Brew Strong | Homebrew Question and Answer with Fal Allen
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Fal Allen is back, to help Jamil tackle your tough homebrewing. questions! The guys address pH issues, volume calculations, and more, on this weeks Brew Strong! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Historic Beer styles With Fal Allen
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Historical beers have never received the attention they deserve. On today's show, Jamil and Fal talk about some of the old styles that have fallen out of favor over the years, and why that might be. Fal talks about his experiences brewing ancient beer styles, and why he's committed to making more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer With Mitch Steele
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Jamil takes your brewing questions, and he has Mitch Steele along to make sure his answers are accurate! Mitch and Jamil run down healthy yeast habits, ingredient best-practices, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | GMO Ingredients in Craft Beer
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Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs, are a hot topic in the food world, and the craft beer scene is no different. On today's show, Jamil welcomes back special guest host Mitch Steele to cover this complex issue. Mitch and Jamil cover some new yeasts that have been modified to produce certain flavors, to malts that have been engineered to produc…
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Brew Strong | Creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) For your Brewery
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Jamil and John give the mail bag a break this week, and instead talk about a more commercial-leaning subject: Standard Operating Procedures. SOP's are common in industrial settings, and breweries (and wineries and distilleries) are very much industrial workplaces. Jamil and John talk about what SOP's a brewery might want to have, and if some of tha…
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Brew Strong | Water Questions (and Answers!)
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Water is a complicated part of your brew day, but it allows you to really fine tune any beer. Jamil and John dig around the Listener Library and gather all the submitted questions they can find about water. Mash salt additions, adjusting the pH in almost every stage of the brewing process, lactic acid, RO water adjustments, and more! Learn more abo…
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Brew Strong | Homebrew Question and Answer
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It's back to the time machine/mail bag for Jamil and John on today's show! Questions came in from all across the homebrewing spectrum, once again testing the mighty grey matter of our hosts. Topics today include final gravity solutions, why hop selection matters, paths to oxidation, and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon…
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Brew Strong | How To Distill with Aaron Hyde
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While distilling is still illegal at home in the US, that hasn't stopped it's rise in popularity. Today, Jamil and John chat with Aaron Hyde, author of "How To Distill", and got a great overview on what home distilling entails, what some of the key points are to focus on, and where to go from there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone…
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Brew Strong | Live from BrewChatter
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Jamil and John take questions from the road, in this live broadcast from BrewChatter HQ! The boys ambled their way up to Sparks, Nevada to settle in and answer some live questions - and to give away some Heretic beer. Yeast harvesting, pH, and fermentation issues were just some of the topics covered on today's show. Learn more about your ad choices…
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Brew Strong | Brewing Winter Beers with Fal Allen
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It's that time of year again, when the shelves are stocked with winter beers, and homebrewers are huddled around their boil kettles, making their own winter warmers. One of the best in the business, Fal Allen of Anderson Valley Brewing Company, joins Jamil and John as they discuss what makes a great winter warmer. Plus, you know ... all the usual B…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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Jamil and John are back, pondering your homebrewing questions! The guys talk about mash pH in commercial breweries and how the big guys do chemical adjustments, if boiling really adds that much color to a wort, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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On today's show, Jamil and John dig into those homebrew questions nobody else is qualified to answer! Well, nobody within arms distance of you, anyway. The mail bag opens and we chat about storing diluted StarSan, fighting with the air quality control board, debate coco powder vs. nibs, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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Jamil and John are back, diving deep into the Brew Strong Mail Bag in order to answer your questions! On this week's episode, the boys talk about the best way to prepare yourself for the homebrewer-to-pro transition, how to fix poor head retention in your homebrews, dry hopping techniques, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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Dipping further into the archives, Jamil and John wrap their heads around more of your questions! Are all crystal malts really equal? Can they be used interchangeably? Find out what the boys said, plus pH issues, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Jamil and John are back, and they have rummaged around the Brew Strong Homebrewer Email Archives for more of your brewing questions! From home glycol usage to brewing at 10,000 feet, the Brew Strong Boys cover it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Justin Crossley
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Brew Strong | Homebrewer Questions on Yeast
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Yeast. The most crucial ingredient in homebrew. Without it, random bacteria would take over, turning all of your hard work into a contaminated, infected soup that even the drains would recoil at! On today's show, the boys take your questions on yeast. How to brew with it, how to wash it, and how much of it to pitch. Learn more about your ad choices…
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Brew Strong | Question and Answer
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A blast from the past joins "Brew Strong" for today's show, as Taylor (AKA Porno Steve) returns to the pod! Jamil and John get caught up on all the latest from him, and then reach into the digital mailbag for your homebrew questions. Topics range from "how clean should you keep your boil kettle", to "just how much plastic am I consuming"? Learn mor…
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