Howdy friends and welcome to another fun filled fantasticly fabulous Friday episode of our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast! Alliteration aside, we hope you’re enjoying your day as we much as we are!

Today’s episode is a Q&A show with James Carlson of CMBecker International! So… it’s basically Joshua reading questions to James and nodding his head in approval! Questions today include “When using a keggle to brew, which do you think is more likely to cause scorching: electric elements or a high BTU gas set up?” and a listener asks a great question which leads to a discussion (er… sales pitch?) from James. Oh, and Joshua complains about Annie Johnson never remembering him in the same breath as calling her “Amy” (insert facepalm.jpg here)… It really is a fun listen!

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!

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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)

Welcome back friends

to another wonderful episode of our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast!

In case you haven’t been listening to any episodes prior to today, we’re located in Central Texas… which means we are in a 50’ish mile radius of some of the most amazing micro and craft breweries that the nation has to offer (this is now the part where folks outside of Texas email Joshua to tell him how wrong he is that Texas has the best craft breweries!). On today’s episode, Joshua drives the 15 or so miles down the road to east Austin to meet up with Josh Hare, the founder and president of Hops & Grain Brewing. 

Hops & Grain are not only doing amazing things in the beer world, but they’re also committed to doing amazing things in their local community. In this interview, Josh Hare elaborates on what it means to be a good neighbor; not only in their neighborhood but also to the world! He also discusses his history as a homebrewer and what led to him taking that “next step” many of us dream of as homebrewers!

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)

Sometimes, our best episodes are the ones where we didn’t plan much! To elaborate, we had a last minute switch (*cough* Todd flaked and left Joshua and James to do it by themselves *cough*) but it all worked out great because what was yielded was a fantastic conversation on delicious new homebrew recipes, using base grains and experimenting with your brews, and the logistics of going from small to larger batch brewing AND moving beyond bottling and on to kegging.

It really was a blast recording today’s show and we hope you enjoy it!

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!

Howdy friends, it’s another episode of our Homebrew Happy Hour!

These last 7 or so days have been rough here in Texas but we definitely appreciate all of the prayers, donations, and volunteers that have come to pitch in towards the relief efforts. This week, our usual co-host, Todd Burns, couldn’t be on the show because he’s volunteering in Rockport BUT we still have a great show for you guys as Joshua and James take your questions on beer styles, BJCP guidelines, and experiences entering your homebrew into local competitions. We think you’re gonna love it!

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!

Hello friends! Since the last time we’ve met, a LOT has gone on in the homebrew industry. Specifically, a LOT has gone on between two of the largest independently owned homebrew supply companies!

We’re so excited to announce that Todd Burns of Kegconnection LLC has purchased HomebrewSupply.com! Most of you are already familiar with HBS as they’ve made a huge impact on the online market even in the relatively short amount of time they’ve been around (3’ish years). Their site has always been enviously beautiful, and their customer service has always been exceptional!

For today’s episode, we welcome one of the HBS guys who has been around since their beginning, Ladik Joe Ermis. Joe’s an avid homebrewer and wore a lot of hats during his time at HBS! We think you’re going to really enjoy this interview and hope you stay tuned for more information regarding the relaunch of HomebrewSupply.com!

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!

Friends, have we got an awesome episode of our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast for you today with our special guest, Jim Miller!

For those who don’t know him by name, Jim is a professional mixed martial artist currently fighting for the Ultimate Fighting Championship in their lightweight (155lb) division. Jim has fought pretty much every person who matters in the division (beating the bulk of them too!) and holds the current record for number of wins in that division. His fighting resume truly is impressive.

What’s even more impressive, to us, is his passion for homebrewing. Jim’s been at it a while and in this episode we dive into his history as a homebrewer, his favorite styles to brew, his favorite styles to drink, and what the future post-UFC might look like if he took his brewing to the professional level.

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!

In case you missed last week’s 50th episode celebration, first let us say how much we appreciate you all and how much FUN we had last week!

Moving forward from episode 50, today’s show is a great conversation on dry hopping. We’ve addressed some dry hopping Q’s in the past but today’s show is themed to elaborate a little bit more than we’ve done before.

Also, we are officially recognizing CMBecker International’s James Carlson as our permanent 3rd co-host! You guys have left such great feedback on James and, frankly, he’s a wealth of knowledge that was bound to start his own show if we didn’t make him an offer he couldn’t refuse (spoiler alert: free beer!).

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!

It may have taken us a couple of years to get here, but we’ve made it to Episode 50!

On this episode, we celebrated by livestreaming the audio and video to you guys through our Facebook page. We took some of your questions about the show, discussed some of our favorite moments, and Joshua even paid up on his end of the deal with Todd and shaved live on the stream.

It wasn’t pretty…

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!

Hello friends and thanks for listening to this week’s Homebrew Happy Hour!

Also, thanks for all of your feedback! We have had LOTS of emails with questions directed towards our frequent guest, James Carlson, so we brought him back for this episode! Let’s be real, James is going to be a frequent guest on our Q&A episodes due to the fantastic response we’ve had!

On today’s show, we address questions on dry hopping, the ‘best’ natural carbing methods, and hitting your desired gravity.

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!

Welcome to another fun filled episode of our #Homebrew Happy Hour podcast!

Thanks to the powers of the internet, Joshua & Todd connect via Google Hangouts to discuss questions on homebrewing and keg temperatures in this episode. PLUS — Todd points out that Joshua hasn’t shaved his beard yet while Joshua points out that Todd has to grow the equivalent of a real man’s beard before he does… so that buys him a good 6 months, probably?

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!