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Grain Crush Question, Bottle Bomb Warnings, & Stout Ingredient Swaps

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Can You Bottle Condition with ANY Sugar? (Plus Wort Chilling & Dry Yeast)

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Lagering vs Cold Conditioning, Plastic vs Stainless Fermenters, & Nitro Kegerator Hacks

4

Star San Alternative? + Can You Sparge With Cold Water?

5

What's the Deal with Hops & A Question About Brewing Bright Beer

6

Wine Acid, Keg Ferment, Hop Creep & Food Ferments

7

Mead Mistakes, Pumpkin Beer & Overcarbed Kegs

8

SCOBY Hotels, Garage Brewing & Fast SG Checks

9

Recirculating Mashes, Yeast Re-Use & BIAB Bags

10

Yeast Starters, Auto-Siphons, and Grain Mill Maintenance

11

Crisp Pilsners, Cider Back Sweetening & Cellaring Beer Q&A

12

OG Fat Tire & The World of Draught Beer with Matt Meadows

13

Emergency Glycol Failures, Diacetyl Rests & Hop Alpha Acids Explained!

14

Did I Ruin My Beer? + Extract Wars & Kettle Sizing!

15

Inside Atlanta's Premier Brew Shop with Joshua Lord

16

How to Clone Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer with Adam Hall

17

Hop Extracts for Dry Hopping, Lager Yeast Kölsch, & Solving Low OG Problems

18

Our Trip to #HomebrewCon 2026 in Asheville, NC

19

The Road to HomebrewCon 2026 in Asheville w/ Julia Herz

20

Do You REALLY Need Rice Hulls? | SRM, Growler Fills, & Draft Sparkling Water

21

Is Pressure Fermentation Worth It? The Good, Bad, and the Potential Geysers!

22

The Golden Hive Update: Mead, Makers, CBC and HomebrewCon Asheville

23

Pressure, Purity, and The Great Sparge Debate

24

Fixing Foamy Beer, Frozen Fruit Tips, & Easy Hop Subs

25

Is Your Process Outdated? The Truth on Kegs, Secondary Conditioning, & Must Have Gear

26

3 Topics for Brewing Better Beer: Dry Hopping, Used Gear Tips, & Medaling at Competitions

27

No New Episode but Don't Forget About the Boston Lager!

28

The Challenges of Operating a Homebrew Supply Shop in 2026

29

The Art of the Craft: Life, Lyrics, and Lager with Joe Whiting | Episode 471

30

Mastering the Basics: Yeast Harvesting, Base Malts, and Mash Ratios

31

The Godfather of Double IPA: Vinnie Cilurzo on the Birth of Pliny the Elder

32

From Brewing to Biohacking: Trong's New Wellness Tool

33

Unwanted Pellicle, Sprinkling vs Rehydrating Dry Yeast, & When to Rack Your Batch

34

I'm Unemployed (but Homebrew Happy Hour is NOT Going Away). What's Next? - Ep. 466

35

Brewing Water Chemistry: Understanding Mash, Boil, and Fermentation pH with Wayne Doucette

36

A Hill Country Original: Talking Real Ale w/ Brad Farbstein

37

Parti-Gyle Brewing, IPA Freshness, & Backsweetening Kombucha

38

Last call for Shiner Bock Clone Kit

39

A Texas Craft Beer Tradition: Inside Spoetzel Brewery w/ Shiner Brewmaster Greg Hybner

40

Flow Control Faucets on Column Towers, Carbonating Kegs at Room Temp, What to do with an Infected Bucket, & Replicating My Favorite Commercial Beer

41

What Upgrades to Spend my Money on, What to do when Fermentation Stalls Out, & Bottling vs Kegging

42

Favorite Beer, Favorite Gear, & Happy New Year!

43

Merry Christmas from Homebrew Happy Hour!

44

Late Hop Addition Mishaps, When to Mill my Grains, What is a Kolsch, & Turnkey Kegerators vs a DIY Build

45

HomebrewCon is back, baby! An Interview with Julia Herz from the American Homebrewers Association

46

Ideal Hose for CMB Flow Control, Full Keg with a Leaky Post, Mashing in the Beta Range, & Best Line Connections for a Draft Beer System

47

Tips for Carbonating & Serving Water, Avoiding Suckback when Cold Conditioning, Does Time Heal Most Off-Flavors, & Dealing with a Stalled Fermentation

48

Using a Blowoff Tube AND Doing Pressure Fermentation, Installing a FLOTit on a Conical Fermenter, My Personal Pressure Fermentation Protocol, & A Few Questions on our Topo Chico Clone Kit

49

Homebrew Disconnect Maintenance, Draft Beer Temperature Ranges for Serving, & Do Kegs Go Bad?

50

Open vs Closed Transferring, Planning Out Future Brew Days, Improving Mash Efficiency in Igloo Coolers, & Does the Yeast Strain Really Matter

51

Replacing Regulator Gauges, Fermentation Temperature Ranges, Beer Line Cleaning Tips, & Dealing with Hop Creep

52

Decoction Mashing, How Important is a Water Profile, & Some Chit Chat Questions with our Friend Horst Dornbusch

53

Homebrewer Showcase: An Interview with River City Brewers Club President Adam Skjefstad

54

Boiling Times Explained, What's the Deal w/ Cold Conditioning, How Full is too Full in my Keg, & Should I Secondary my Batch

55

HHH REPLAY: All About Breakfast Stout & a Replay of Our Interview w/ Jeremy Kosmicki from Founders Brewing

56

Brewing Award Winning Beer at the Highest Level: An Interview with the AHA's 2025 Homebrewer of the Year, Wayne Doucette

57

Dealing with Scorched Wort, Shelf Life of a SCOBY, & Tips for Counter Pressure Bottling Sours

58

What to do with Frozen Beer Lines, Fridge vs Chest Freezer for my Kegerator, & Routine Leak Checks on a Draft System

59

1 Base Malt to Rule them All, 2 Taps 1 Keg, & Calculating Correct Temps After Mashing In

60

Mastering the BJCP Tasting Exam: An Interview with Doug Walker from Rusty Nut Brew & Que

61

A Keg Cleaning Question, Using Saaz as a Substitute in a Kolsch, & 2 Kegs 1 Spunding Valve

62

Same Hop but Different Alpha Acid Numbers, Are Water Profiles Worth it, & How Long is too Long in Primary Fermentation

63

Brewing Non-Alcoholic Beer and Catching up with Trong from HomebrewerLab.com

64

Using Huge Hose in a Keezer, Jockey Box Coils and Flow Control Faucets, & Using a Quick Carb Lid for Beer

65

What to do with Mixed Grains, Kegging Cocktails, Adding Pressure to Your Fermenter, & Preventing Gas Line Backflow

66

What it Takes to Start Judging Beer: a Recap of Kolsch Cup and Lots More with Jonathan Marut

67

What to Know When Using True Flow Control Faucets, Why Do We Sparge, Excessive Foam from 1 Tap, & Switching from Bottling to Kegging

68

How to Brew an Award Winning Kolsch: An Interview with the 2025 Kolsch Cup Grand Champion, Robert Abbott

69

Installing a Long Line Draft Beer System in Your Home, Transferring From the Fermenter While Krausen is Still Present, & What to do with a Sack full of Weevils

70

Everything You Need to Know About Monster Brewing Hardware - An Interview with Fred Francis - Ep. 432

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Configuring a Thermostat Temperature Controller, Getting Different SRMs from the Same Recipe, & Is it Worth the Money to Upgrade to Stainless Steel Fermenters

72

Learn More about the Brewtubers with Nick Lesogor from Exit 12 Homebrew

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Mitigating Suckback During Cold Conditioning, Maintenance Tips for Stainless Steel Conical Fermenters, & Bottling and Filling Growlers from a Keg

74

Brewing Traditional Continental European Styles with Hagen Dost from Dovetail Brewery

75

Todd's Opinions on the State of Homebrewing, Installing Inline Flow Control into an Existing Draft System, & Tips for Going from Extract to All Grain Brewing

76

Hill Country Brewing w/ Calvin Kouba from Middleton Brewing

77

Is Homebrewing a Dying Hobby, Does my Infected Batch Mean I Have Infected Equipment, & Avoiding Scorched Grains

78

Keeping Steady Temps when Cooler Brewing, Setting Pressure for Serving Soda, & Dealing with a Dripping Faucet

79

Homebrewer to Probrewer - An Interview with Davy from Roughhouse Brewing

80

Selecting Hops for a German Pils, Understanding Base Malts for Different Styles, & Balancing a Danby Kegerator System

81

Line Cleaning Tips, Best Gear for 5 Gallon Batches, & a Bunch of Rapid Fire Questions Too

82

Turning Mountain Dew into Wine - An Interview with Charlie from Golden Hive Mead

83

Balancing a Home Draft System, Tips for Maintaining a Glycol Chiller, & Discrepancies in my Gravity Readings

84

Recapping our 2024 Brew Days While Hiking up a Mountain with my Pop

85

Quick PSA: Last Call for Kolsch!

86

Stuck Fermentation Woes, Dialing in Decoctions, & Comparing Homebrew Disconnects

87

The Future of Kegconnection.com

88

Shelf Life for Brewing Minerals, Wanting More Coffee Flavor from a Breakfast Stout, & Refilling Your Own CO2 Cylinders at Home

89

Favorite Beer, Favorite Gear, and Happy New Year

90

See Y'all in 2025!

91

Advice for Keg Newbies, When to Replace Keg Gaskets, & Continuously Getting Metallic Tastes from my Kegs

92

Purposefully Stopping Fermentation & What that Might Cause, Losing Power During a Fermentation, & Recalibrating an Electronic pH Meter

93

An Interview with the 2024 Altbier World Champion, Jonathan Marut - Ep. 411

94

Some Coffee 101 for my Imperial Coffee Stout

95

Natural Pressure vs Adding Pressure for Fermentation, Planning Out a Brew Day, & Should I Transfer Before Lagering My Batch

96

To Refurbish or Replace a Shank, FLOTit 2.0 Tips, & The Different Names for Various Times in Your Hop Schedule

97

Gas Side Hose Maintenance, Sanitizing Bottles and then Storing Them, & A Handful of General Sanitation Questions

98

Keeping Track of All Your Ingredients, Brew in a Bag on an Electric All-in-One, and Adding Flavors to Homemade Sparkling Mineral Water

99

Altbier 101: History, Brewing Techniques, & Recipe Recommendations with Horst Dornbusch

100

Do CMB Disconnects Need Washers, Taking Apart Faucets During Cleaning, Best Practices for Grain Mill Maintenance, & Our Recap of HomebrewHQ at GABF