False bottoms in Igloo coolers, batch vs fly sparging, and ‘automated’ brewing setups — HHH Ep. 078

It’s another fun-filled episode of our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast!

This week brings HomebrewSupply.com ‘s Ladik Joe Ermis onto the show to help Joshua (the helpless) field YOUR homebrew questions.

Specifically, we’re talking about false bottoms vs other methods in Igloor coolers, batch versus fly sparging, and ‘automated’ brewing setups! It’s a blast!

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS’ has officially relaunched and has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

An Interview w/ CMB’s Stephen Becker — HHH Ep. 077

 

We’re so happy to welcome our friend from CMB in Germany, Stephen Becker, on today’s show!

CMB (also known as CMB Schankanlagen GmbH) is the European presence of CMBecker products and manufacturing of all the wonderful CMB products you guys know and love. We were very fortunate this week to be able to welcome Stephen Becker all the way from Dusseldorf, Germany on the show and interview him for this week’s episode.

We had a blast welcoming him on the show and discussing the history of the company, new products, and old favorites!

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Kegconnection has some of the best deals on homebrewing supplies and draft beer equipment PLUS a brand new section of delicious ingredients and recipe kits! Use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

When to add water volume when brewing mini-mash recipe kits and how to create your own mini mash recipes! — HHH Ep. 076

 

Thanks for joining us once again for another fun filled homebrew happy hour podcast!

Today’s show is packed with excitement! By “excitement”, we mean that ONCE AGAIN all 3 guys are in studio and taking your questions! Specifically, the guys discuss adding volume to mini-mash recipes (James has some fantastic input and advice) as well as a question regarding the development of your own mini-mash recipes and what the pros and cons are versus purchasing pre-developed mini-mash recipes.

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Kegconnection has some of the best deals on homebrewing supplies and draft beer equipment PLUS a brand new section of delicious ingredients and recipe kits! Use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

Starting equipment recommendations and a question regarding faucets — HHH Ep. 075

 

Howdy, Homebrewer, and welcome back to another fun filled episode of our podcast!

Believe it or not, we were able to rope Todd back in to the studio and ALL 3 of the guys discuss your questions today on starting equipment preferences and a question on faucet choices. James is the man on faucets so Todd and Joshua may or may not have just let him talk for 20 minutes while they pretended to know things too…

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Kegconnection has some of the best deals on homebrewing supplies and draft beer equipment PLUS a brand new section of delicious ingredients and recipe kits! Use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

What’s the point of secondary fermentation and how much does temperature affect your beer? — HHH Ep. 074

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Welcome back to one of the top 1000 shows about homebrewing!

We don’t actually know if there’s even 1000 podcasts out there about homebrewing, but we are confident that we’re in the top 1K if there does happen to be.

Kidding aside, we have a wonderful episode to present to you today. Todd is out of town again (we’ll go ahead and give him kudos since he took his wife to go see Elton John in Vegas, so we can’t hate on him too much) so it’s a Q&A show with Joshua and James! On today’s show, we take your questions regarding “What is secondary fermentation?!” and also “Does fluctuating temps really matter during fermentation?”.

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Kegconnection has some of the best deals on homebrewing supplies and draft beer equipment PLUS a brand new section of delicious ingredients and recipe kits! Use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

Valentine’s Day! What YOU love about brewing, what WE love about brewing, and James is entering the National Homebrew Competition! — HHH Ep. 073

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Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day, homebrew lovers!

In case you didn’t listen to last week’s “episode”, we recently ran a giveaway for $50 gift cards to SIX lucky winners! Thank you to HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com for providing the gift cards and congratulations to the winners:  Christine S, Thomas M, Brad W, Eamon W, Danielle L, and Sean K! They’ve all been contacted and most of them have already claimed their prize!

Thanks to you all as well for participating and for listening & supporting our show.

Today’s episode features a discussion between Joshua and James (Todd has abandoned us, [insert sad face here]) on some of the responses you guys left us to the question, “What do you love about homebrewing?” We also discuss what WE love about homebrewing, and how James is entering the Austin leg of the AHA’s National Homebrew Competition!

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Kegconnection has some of the best deals on homebrewing supplies and draft beer equipment PLUS a brand new section of delicious ingredients and recipe kits! Use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

GIFT CARD GIVEAWAY! Listen for details!

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What’s better than a new episode of your favorite homebrew podcast?

The answer: NOTHING. 🙂

When we don’t have a new episode to offer you though, the next best thing is a giveaway just for you all! Make sure you listen to this painfully long (2’ish minutes?) announcement on how we’re giving away $50 gift cards to Kegconnection and Homebrew Supply! You’ll hear how you can enter your name into the drawing AND how there’s ways to get multiple entries.

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Todd & James trip recap, European beer culture, and spotting infections in your beer — HHH Ep. 072

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Welcome back to your favorite homebrew focused podcast!

I mean, we’re assuming it’s your favorite. If it isn’t your favorite, just let us pretend because it really does wonders for our ego.

Joking aside, we are PUMPED to have both Todd and James back on the show after their return from the old country. We recap their recent European trip and field questions regarding European beer culture as well as a question on spotting infections in your beer during the entire brewing process (link to the HBS article mentioned in today’s show: https://www.homebrewsupply.com/learn/is-my-batch-infected.html)

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed producing it for you!

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS’ has officially relaunched and has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

Yeast starters, an influx of micro-breweries, and what we’re currently drinking — HHH Ep. 071

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Hello homebrewer and welcome back to another episode of our show!

2018 is off to a crazy start already but we’re back bringing you a fun-filled jam-packed episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour.

Since Todd and James are both out of country (Joshua never gets invited on these trips… weird?!), Ladik Joe Ermis from HomebrewSupply.com joins Joshua and saves the day as we all know at least one expert on homebrew is necessary for these episodes to go smoothly!

The guys take your questions on making yeast starters, our thoughts on the rising presence of micro-breweries and brew-pubs in the country, and a reader asks us what we’re currently drinking – so we share that too!

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS’ has officially relaunched and has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)

A fun discussion on faucets and flow control! — HHH Ep. 070

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It’s a new year and the FIRST episode of our show for 2018!

We hope you all had a WONDERFUL Christmas holiday season as well as new year! We also hope that you were able to enjoy some relaxation and maybe even a brew day or two if you had the time. It’s a great time of the year for brewing and we’re excited to present to you the first episode of our show for the new year.

On today’s show, it’s really all about James. To be fair, we (Todd and Joshua) don’t usually mind passing most questions off to James and then just agreeing with him or adding “yes, that’s exactly my thoughts too” at the end of his sentences… Joking aside, today’s show is all about faucets and flow control. We discuss balancing lines when you’re using a flow control faucet, the differences between entry level and premium faucets, plus we also discuss the brand new V3N Stout faucet from CMBecker and how folks are implementing it for their beer and coffee!

As always, If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of the page!

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS’ has officially relaunched and has all of your favorite recipe kits, fresh ingredients, and homebrew equipment in stock. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners can visit HomebrewSupply.com and use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

(Discount can not be applied to products that are drop shipped including, but not limited to, products by Spike Brewing, SS BrewTech, Brewer’s Edge Mash & Boil, and more. See website for details)