Episode 207 – Fonio, Fonio, What The Heck Are You, Fonio?

The hot new brewing grain is actually thousands of years old. Fonio, a staple hardy crop from West Africa is now available for brewing purposes where it can yield interesting results including grain derived tropical fruit flavors. Ashton Lewis walks us through what to expect and how to use it! Episode Links: How To Brew Online Relaunches: http://howtobrew.com/ Beervana’s Coronavirus Diaries Revisited: https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2025/3/21/coronavirus-diaries-at-five-gigantic Fonio BSG Site: https://rahrbsg.com/fonio-50-lb/ Fonio Gold Recipe: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/2025/04/14/fonio-gold/ Nebula Award Nominee “The Witch Trap”: https://www.jenniferhudakwrites.com/no-title/ Grand Designs “The Streets” 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 00:02:13 Announcements 00:09:00 The Pub 00:21:01 The Brewery 00:27:30 The Lounge – Ashton Lewis – Fonio 01:05:16 Quick Tip and Something Other This episode is brought to you by: ​Jaded Brewing ​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 Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss Share Post Share