Transporting your homebrew to an event and building out your first kegerator — Ep. 127


Hello friend and fellow homebrewer!

– We welcome and thank you for tuning in to our podcast –

Thank you for joining us once again for the Homebrew Happy Hour show! This is the show where we answer YOUR questions about homebrewing and commercial craft beer. You may have noticed that we released TWO “episodes” this week. OK, the first one really shouldn’t count because it was an abomination and awful attempt at providing some April Fool’s day content… but… BUT, some positive feedback I did get from that was that the fake ad bumper we produced might actually work if we ever wanted to use it for real. So, there’s that.

On Today’s Show:

On to things that actually matter! Todd (President and Chief Keg Washer at Kegconnection) and James (Director of Operations at CMBecker and overall handsome man) join me today for the 127th episode of our podcast. We take a question from a listener who has been asked to provide the beer for an event coming up and he’s wondering what’s the best way he can transport the beer to the event with minimal adversity. We also take a question from someone who is done bottling and is ready to keg (brilliant choice, if you ask us). She’s wanting to dispense the beer through a kegerator/keezer and we talk about the various ways she can achieve that.

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

SPECIAL EPISODE: Behind the scenes sneak peek of our podcast!

Hey there, homebrewer!

– We welcome and thank you for tuning in to our podcast –

In honor of us still being a show and taking over 3 years to produce 126 episodes (a weekly show, mind you… don’t do the math on how long we went where we didn’t make any new episodes…), we decided to treat you to a little behind the scenes sneak peek. In this special episode, we’re sharing with you some of our ideas from the past that we never felt comfortable implementing, format changes we ALMOST made, and a look at our potential future as we aim to monetize the bejeezus out of this show! We hope you enjoy this April 1st special edition episode of our podcast 🙂

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

Recap of our beer tasting night and a question on clone recipes — Ep. 126


Hey there, homebrewer!

– We welcome and thank you for tuning in to our podcast –

Thank you for joining us once again for the Homebrew Happy Hour show! This is the show where we answer YOUR questions about homebrewing and commercial craft beer. It’s, easily, my favorite thing to do every week and I can’t genuinely thank you all enough for supporting our show and tuning in each and every week. This week is especially awesome because…

On Today’s Show:

TODD IS BACK! Woohoo! Todd Burns (President and Chief Keg Washer at Kegconnection) joins myself and Ladik Joe Ermis (Dir. of Operations at Homebrew Supply) to bring you our 126th episode of our show. This week, we enjoyed a wonderful evening of beer tastings (also known as research and development *wink* *wink*) that we recap at the top of the show. Then, we take a question about making clone recipes and some thoughts behind what goes in to creating accurate clone recipes. We had an absolute BLAST this week and I’m, personally, excited to present this to you.

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

Losing your boil halfway thru and brews that are ready in 2 weeks — Ep. 125


Hello, friends and family!

– We welcome and thank you for tuning in to our podcast –

Thank you for joining us once again for the Homebrew Happy Hour show! This is the show where we answer YOUR questions about homebrewing and commercial craft beer. When we aren’t doing Q&A episodes, we try to find fellow homebrewers, industry professionals, or really anyone that’ll do 30’ish minutes with me on the phone 😉

On Today’s Show:

Fan favorite, Ladik Joe Ermis joins me once again for this week’s episode. I know I’ve said this a million times but I’m super grateful for my peers, like Joe, who are so willing to come on the show on short notice and help me answer your questions. Joe is also known as the IPA guy around here and he’s the man behind the recipe that my dad and I brewed for our first all-grain brew day so I was glad to update him on the success of how that beer turned out!

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

Brewing more frequently and a question on sanitation — Ep. 124


Hey hey hey, it’s another episode of the Homebrew Happy Hour!

– We welcome and thank you for tuning in to our podcast –

Thank you for joining us once again for the Homebrew Happy Hour show! I’d like to start this week’s show, again, by THANKING you all for the tremendous amount of love you’ve sent Todd’s way. Our email inbox, Facebook inbox, Instagram inbox, and YouTube comments have been full of your support and words of encouragement and condolences for Todd and Liz regarding the recent loss of their son and we all thank you from the bottom of our hearts. You guys are truly the best community we could ever ask for and we can’t thank you enough for that.

On Today’s Show

James Carlson from CMBecker International joins me to take your questions on this week’s show. Specifically, we’re talking about how a homebrewer can increase the frequency of their brew days (or the amount of beers they brew every month) and we also field a question about sanitation. James is the perfect person for these questions because 1) He brews all the time AND he is a stickler for sanitation and 2) because he knows way more than I do about every topic so, obviously, he’s the perfect person for me to ask these questions to. 🙂

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

Brewing in small batches and fresh hops vs pellets — Ep. 123


Howdy there, Homebrewer!

Welcome back to another episode of our podcast

Thank you for joining us on the Homebrew Happy Hour! We are truly appreciative that you’re here and it blows our mind how fast our audience is growing. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all the love and support you’ve been showing us. On that note, I selfishly ask that you please send love and support to our own Todd Burns. Shortly before he was scheduled to fly out of the country for a business trip with James to Germany, he got a phone call that no parent should ever receive. Todd and Liz’s son, their oldest child, Kyle, had passed away unexpectedly late Monday evening. Todd and Liz have been like parents to me over the past decade and we’re all so heart broken over the loss of Kyle. Obviously, Todd wasn’t able to join this week’s episode and, honestly, I’m not sure when he’ll be back but please keep him and his entire family in your prayers. Kyle left behind a ton of people who loved him dearly and we’re going to miss him so much.

On Today’s Show

It’s super hard for me to segue from something so heavy and serious (because I’m an awkward dude) but we do have a great show lined up for you this week. Ladik Joe Ermis from Homebrew Supply joined me and helped answer your questions. We address a homebrewer who already brews small 1 gallon batches but is looking to scale up to 2.5 gallons and wants to know the best way to do so. We also take a voicemail question asking about fresh hops versus pellet hops. I can’t tell you how appreciative I am that Joe was able to join me so last minute! I really think you’re going to enjoy this episode.

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

 


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

Fixing a flat beer and a question on achieving clarity — HHH Ep.122

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It’s another week and another episode of our homebrew podcast!

Thank you for joining us on the Homebrew Happy Hour! One consistent feedback that we receive here is that many listeners wished we produced our show more frequently than just once per week. I can’t tell you enough how flattering that is and how much we truly appreciate you listening/watching AND, apparently, enjoying the show. It boggles my mind!

On Today’s Show

Todd is out sick with some sort of terrible cold so James joins me to discuss your homebrewing-related questions. Specifically, we discuss a question from a listener who transferred beer from one pin lock corny keg to a different ball lock corny keg and, mysteriously, it caused his beer to go completely flat! We also address a question about achieving clarity with your beer. Literally, making a clear beer – not some mental enlightenment achievement or something, although maybe we could address that too on a future episode?

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

Homebrewer Showcase: A Conversation with Kenny Highman — HHH Ep. 121

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Hey there, homebrewer!

Welcome back to our little homebrew podcast

I’d like to start this episode with praising today’s guest, Kenny Highman from “The Brewer of Seville“, for being an awesome interviewee and also a saint of patience!

In case you didn’t already know, we record this show earlier in the week and then after some touching up (i.e- automated audio processing to make us sound better than we really should), we then publish the show. In the 121 episodes of just this show that I’ve produced, we’ve maybe had bad enough technical difficulties or one of us will flub bad enough that we have to stop recording and fix the issue. I never (and I mean NEVER) really even bring that up with guests but before recording today’s show I happened to mention to Kenny that “in case we flub, we can stop and fix the issue. no worries because it NEVER happens!”… my subtle smugness would prove to be my downfall because poor Kenny had to hang out with me for over an hour just to produce the content for today’s show! The good news is that Kenny is a blast to hang out with and I am super happy that I got to know him better even thru all my technical difficulties and flubs.

On Today’s Show

Kenny, also know as The Brewer of Seville, joins me to talk about his homebrewing journey. This is another edition of our “Homebrewer Showcase” and the more I produce these episodes, the more I’m really enjoying them. Kenny hasn’t been homebrewing for a very long time but you can tell throughout this episode that he’s zealous for the craft and it’s exciting to see what he’s doing. I am confident that you’re going to enjoy this podcast episode!

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

Today’s show is brought to you by HomebrewSupply.com! HBS’ 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.

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Tips for avoiding stuck sparges and a question on keezer builds — HHH Ep. 120

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Howdy friends and welcome back to our little homebrew podcast

We hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Valentine’s day with your loved one and/or your favorite brew! Also, we hope you’ve got some brew days planned for the near future. My pop and I will finally be brewing our first all grain batch together in our new Cooler Brew system this coming weekend. To say that I’m excited would be a huge under-statement. We’ll be brewing an IPA like I discussed last week with Joe from Homebrew Supply and I’ll definitely keep you in the loop on how it turns out!

On Today’s Show

Todd and James are back with me to take your homebrew related questions. First, we discuss tips for avoiding stuck sparges on your brew day. Then, we answer a question seeking advice on building out a kegerator or keezer. It’s my favorite kind of episode to do with Todd and James because these types of questions are perfect for them and I get to sit back and pretend like I know what I’m talking about – it’s great!

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

 


Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

How to increase the ABV of your brew and making an Electric Jellyfish IPA clone — HHH Ep. 119

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It’s another episode of your favorite craft beer podcast!

A listener recently pointed out to me that it’s slightly redundant that we call ourselves a podcast about homebrew and craft beer, when homebrewed beer SHOULD be considered craft beer, so I’ve adjusted the headline of these show notes to only say “craft beer podcast” and we’ll probably discuss this topic on a future episode where I’ll go down a million unrelated rabbit holes and end up back to where we started… SPEAKING OF WHICH… thank you for joining us for this week’s episode! It’s our usual Q&A style but joining me this week is our favorite guy from HomebrewSupply.com, Mr. Ladik Joe Ermis. We’ve had Joe on a bunch and I’m super excited he was able to join me again to help tackle your homebrew-related questions!

On Today’s Show

I know we talk about submitting your questions via voicemail or text EVERY episode but I’ve been a terrible host and really slacked on actually using your voicemail submitted questions so that changes today. Using the voicemail hotline @ 325-305-6107, Aaron asked us a question about increasing the ABV of his homebrew. Joe has some great advice for Aaron and anyone else looking to do the same. We also took a question from Jeff who, upon learning that we’re (more or less) based out of the Austin area, asked how he could brew one of his favorite local beers from Pinthouse Pizza, their “Electric Jellyfish IPA”. Joe and I discuss the style and we’ve even included a recipe for it below. If you ever do visit Austin, Pinthouse Pizzas is definitely a place you need to check out!

We want to hear from 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 our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep.

Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!

cheers,

joshua

Today’s show is brought to you by Kegconnection.com! Check out Kegconnection’s brand new “Brewer’s Club Rewards” program which gives you points for every purchase and the ability to earn FREE points simply by sharing content or participating in various activities. You can redeem your points for discounts on future orders, FREE SHIPPING, FREE GIFTS, and a whole lot more so go to Kegconnection.com for more information. Homebrew Happy Hour listeners who shop at Kegconnection.com can use the promo code “HHH” to receive 5% off your order.

 

 

Electric Jellyfish IPA (clone recipe)