Episode 54 – Quaffing a Better Engineered Beer

On this week's episode, we sit down and look at more trademark disputes, interesting business moves and why social media is ruining beer before heading to the lab for secret experiments, the brewery for ingredient explorations and then into the lounge where Drew sits down with a couple of award winning home brewers - Derek Springer (aka Five Blades Brewing) of the Society of Barley Engineers and Nick Corona (aka 2016's AHA Homebrewer of the Year) of QUAFF. Find out what it means to homebrew in America's brewery mecca! And then of course we answer some questions before Drew leaves you with the nerdiest sports thing to nerd. Episode Links: BrewSwag.com - Use Code "Experimental" and save 7.5% and give 7.5% to our charity fund! PicoBrew - Save $$ on a Zymatic with the code PICODENNY at http://www.picobrew.com Q&A Transcript - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/episode-24-qa-transcript Old Town Brewing vs. City of Portland Trademark Dispute - https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2017/11/13/the-city-of-portland-ve... Widmer Closes Their Brewpub - http://www.newschoolbeer.com/2017/11/widmer-interview-pub-changes-staff-... Garrett Oliver on NE IPAs - https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2017/11/15/Garrett-Oliver-Ne... Five Blades Brewing - Derek Springers Blog - https://www.fivebladesbrewing.com/ Society of Barley Engineers - http://societyofbarleyengineers.org/ QUAFF - http://quaff.org/ Jon Bois - Chart Party - Kickoffs are Stupid and Bad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SsIKgwvz4 Jon Bois - Pretty Good - Rat Poison and Brandy the 1904 St. Louis Marathon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw Desi Strong - https://www.desistrongfoundation.org/ Patreon Remember even a buck is good for charity: http://www.patreon.com/experimentalbrewing Experimental Brew Store - https://www.experimentalbrew.com/store Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Opening & Our Sponsors 00:03:54 Announcements & Corrections & Feedback 00:7:12 The Pub 00:22:18 The Brewery - Hybrid Systems & Hop Plans 00:31:22 The Lab - Denny's Secret Plans 00:35:44 The Lounge - Derek Springer & Nick Corona 01:20:15 Q&A 01:29:14 Quick Tip 01:30:51 Something Other Than Beer This episode is brought to you by: American Homebrewers Association BrewCraft USA Craftmeister Jaded Brewing Mecca Grade Estate Malt PicoBrew Wyeast Labs 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