The Beer Craft, Beer, and Brewing Podcast

Before Corona. Before Tecate. Before Mexican lager.

Mexico had pulque (POOL-keh) — a thick, funky, fermented agave drink that was once the most popular alcohol in the country… and sacred to the Aztecs.

So what happened?

In this episode, we dig into one of the earliest "fake news" campaigns in a...

We aren't getting political, but the price of a 4 pack of beer in the grocery store is getting a little ridiculous. $16 four packs! 

This week on The Beer Craft, we break down the numbers and look at the economy of homebrewing. You can actually save money on beer by making it yourself. Plus, you get to buy gear! What a juicy dopamine hit that is...

So shine up your kettle and crack open a fresh one for the Beer Craft!

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I know I had posted this as a Make Beer Cheap Again, but I mixed up my audio files. 
This week on the Podcast we take a look at the Northwest Beer Scene and answer some burning questions from the field. 

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We did a whole show about reading a COA, but sometimes we need something that we can chew on. This week on The Beer Craft we are looking at what we can do to test and evaluate our grain choices without all the math. So put down your slide rules, grab a beer or four, for...

The Beer Craft, Homebrewing Podcast. 

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Because I am more than a barley obsessed wrangler of single cell intoxicant creating critters, we are talking about wine kits! I know that both employ the tallents of saccharomyces cerevisiae, and that one molecule of glucose or sucrose amounts to the same thing as far as those unicellurlar marvels are concerned, and that just because we changed our sugar source we need a whole new set of adverbs to describe a whole new set of noun...

If there ever was a beer that started the craft beer movement, a beer with one foot firmly rooted in history, and led by an unlikely pioneer, it would have to be San Francisco's Anchor Steam Beer. A beer style that was practicly extinct, a mere footnote in the lineup of a failing brewery, and one which was given another moment in the sunshine thanks to mondern household appliances. 

Though the beers are gone, we raise our glasses t...

We sit down with a reguluar listener, Adam Woodworth and taste a line up of Pale Ales while discussing the in's and outs of Brew in a Bag (BIAB). We'll go over the process and dispel a few rumors this week on The Beer Craft. 

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Going Way Beyond Rosemary time and basil this week on the Beer Craft Home Brewing Podcast, we take a look at the Botany of beer. We take a look at what Mother Nature has in store for the brewhouse, how to use them, and what we can do with them. There are more than a few herbs and spices that we should watch out for, as they can lead to health problems or medication reactions. Since the show's sponsor, Northwest Brewers...

Belgian beer looks chaotic from the outside, but there's a clear blueprint once you know where to look. This episode breaks down the core ideas behind the country's brewing culture and explains why Belgian brewers create beers that don't fit into tidy boxes. Ben and Andrew cover the four families of Belgian beer, the role of yeast, the country's approach to balance, and why sugar, glassware, and r...

Recently I surveyed the local brewing community to find out directly what were the most significant sources of frustration, or problems they had in brewing. I wanted to put my finger on the pulse of the modern homebrewer. By far, the most common problem respondents had was making time to brew. 

Since the pandemic, we have gone from having all the time in the world, to be so busy we're dizzy. I think a lot of us forgot how busy we w...

We're closing out our five-part beer design run with a bang.
The last gap on the Northwest Brewers Supply beer list is a Cold IPA, so that's tonight's target.

Is a Cold IPA just an IPL in new clothes? The BJCP hasn't said a word about it, so we dig into the difference.

We look at what went wrong with classic IPLs and can the Italian pilsner gives us a spark as we search for a crisp, clean, hoppy balance. 

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This week on the podcast, we put our heads together on an oatmeal stout. We had plenty of inspiration, including a maple coconut stout that we are still drooling over. 

Why wouldn't you want to listen to that?

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We are back in the studio with another round of beer design. We wanted to create two more beers this week but we talk too much. We did manage to come up with another recipe, this time a mexi lager. We will come upo with a oatmeal stout next week. 

So sit back with a six pack and let's get ready for Beer30.

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This week on The Beer Crafters, Ben and Andrew put their recipe-building hats on for a design session straight from the back room at Northwest Brewers Supply. First up: a crisp, clean classic Pilsner. Then, a malty heavyweight we're probably calling the "Agrivator" — a Doppelbock with enough attitude to stir up a few fields.

This episode marks the anniversary of the show and the start of Season 2. Hard to believe we are still at it. Most podcasts end after 11 episodes. There is so much of you, the listeners, to blame for that. Thanks for joining us along the way. 

This week on the Beer Craft, we take a look under the hood of our favorite beer related vegetable, hops. Just what kind of alchemy goes on within the little green jewels and the kind of resea...

The flavor of apple is not known as a star in the world of beer thanks to Acetaldehyde, but what about Pear? Can we shape a pale ale around the other fall fruit?

This Week on the Show, we sit down with Mark Lutz, a  long-time homebrewer and friend of the show, to talk about his annual harvest Pale Ale. For years, Mark has filled Andrew's head with stories of his family's fall classic, and now we finally get to taste it! 

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