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Chop & Brew – Episode 11: Growing Hops at Home (Part 2)

August 23, 2013chopandbrewEPISODESchip walton, chop and brew, growing hops at home, growing your own hops, homebrewing, homegrown hops, hoppy beers, hops, how to dry hops, how to grow hops at home, how to harvest hops, how to make beer at home, michael dawson, ted Weidman15 Comments

You asked for a home hop progress report, Chop & Brew has one for you. With only a few weeks left in the hop-growing season – Chip, Dawson and Ted have late-summer updates on their home hop-growing efforts. (Well, Dawson and Ted do anyway.) We talk a bit about how to know when your hops

Chop & Brew – Episode 10: Boat Bitter

August 8, 2013chopandbrewEPISODESbrewers yeast, british ales, british bitter (beer style), chip walton, chop & brew, chop and brew, fermentation, how to brew beer, how to brew british bitter, how to brew session beer, how to make beer at home, michael dawson, session ale, session beer, wyeast, yeast information24 Comments

It’s summer in the city and we’re in need of a low-alcohol, yet high-flavor beer. Enter Wyeast Brand Manager Michael Dawson with the cure: Boat Bitter. Dawson has some great advice for crafting a superb session-strength British Bitter utilizing a limited edition yeast strain, Wyeast 1026 British Cask Ale. And if you know Dawson, you

Boat Bitter Bonus Footage

August 8, 2013chopandbrewLAGNIAPPEbrewers yeast, british ales, british bitter (beer style), chip walton, chop & brew, chop and brew, fermentation, how to brew beer, how to brew british bitter, how to brew session beer, how to make beer at home, michael dawson, session ale, session beer, wyeast, yeast information5 Comments

This Lagniappe video contains some of the stuff we felt made the actual final edited version of Episode 10 a bit too verbose. But the tips and techniques discussed here are worth checking out for any brewer, but especially all-grain brewers. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQRxNG6-RLU&w=560&h=315]