Episode 130 – A New Way To Figure Out Hops

We took a week off from hops, but we could never leave them for long. With all of the new ways of using hops, the IBU (which was already a lie) seems increasingly inadequate to reflect the modern beer experience. We're talking to our friends - Sam and Marko, from Grainfather - to discuss a new way to calculate the impact of our hop usage. Episode Links: HomeBrewCon Virtual: https://www.homebrewcon.org/ Radegast Award: Due 4/11 - https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-clubs/radegast-club-of-t... Brewers Space Guild: https://brewersspaceguild.com/ Allagash Saison Day: https://www.allagash.com/saisonday/ Erosion Winery/Brewery: https://napavalleyregister.com/community/star/news/after-surviving-pande... Pink Boots New Push: https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/pink-boots-society-women-owned-br... Mosaic State Collective: http://washingtonbeerblog.com/introducing-a-new-program-that-fosters-div... Marty Nachel Skillshare: https://www.skillshare.com/user/nachel Grainfather mIBU primer: https://grainfather.com/maximum-international-bitterness-units-in-beer/ mIBU Article (JP Hosom): https://alchemyoverlord.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/an-on-line-calculator-f... mIBU calculator (JP Hosom): https://jphosom.github.io/alchemyoverlord/ibu_mIBU.html The Plot Thickens Podcast: https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/ The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly: https://firesidefiction.com/the-ransom-of-miss-coraline-connelly World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/ Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Opening & Our Sponsors 00:02:08 Announcements & Feedback 00:7:12 The Pub 00:20:41 The Library 00:28:23 The Brewery 00:38:51 The Lounge - Jesse Brussard 01:17:54 Q&A 01:24:37 Quick Tip & Something Other Than Beer This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association BrewCraft USA Brewing America Jaded Brewing Mecca Grade Estate Malt Wyeast Labs YCH Hops Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) - contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it - talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]! Don't forget you can support the podcast on Patreon by going to http://patreon.com/experimentalbrewing This episode can be downloaded directly at https://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/d... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss