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The livestream is now also a podcast! Join Jason, Jordan, and Brian as they talk homebrewing with professionals across the Michigan craft beer industry (and sometimes a little out of state!) The show has a heavy emphasis on homebrewing and brewing beer/mead/cider/seltzer in general. We're passionate about the hobby of homebrewing and want everyone to be as successful as they can be. We started this show during quarantine in attempt to satiate our desire to talk about brewing with people while club meetings all went to virtual or were cancelled all together. Sometimes we stray off topic, sometimes the audio isn't great, sometimes we drink a little too much... But it's what we like to do in real life and so we decided to just do it live instead and see if anyone wanted to join in, which people have! Podcasts will appear within 48 hours of our live show ending. Catch our live shows most Mondays at 7:30pm EST. We stream to Youtube, Facebook, and Twitch! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichiganBrews Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIBrews Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/michiganbrews Contact us at: michigan.brews.show@gmail.com
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Join Jason and Brian with special guest Tim Wicklund as they discuss the somewhat more advanced world of blending beer, mead, and cider.
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Join us as we blind test 10 beers that fall into the International Pale Lager BJCP category, as well as an additional surprise beer! We'll be joined by Ted, owner and brewer at Brewery Outré in Kalamazoo, MI.
We're testing some "on the go" audio equipment in this episode for the first time, fingers crossed!
Cheers!
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Jason wants to make a mead, maybe one with lemons.
He really has no clue what he's doing, so we are going to discuss and design a mead recipe with some folks that can help.
Hang out and have a brew with us as we talk through the mead making process. Whatever we come up with, Jason is going to take away and brew!
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Way back in the dark days of episode 101 we individually ran the Keepers of Craft beer generator to come up with 3 unique(ish) recipes. Deciding to go for what amounted to be an Imperial Kölsch-style beer, we then drafted a recipe for it, brewed it, and now we're drinking it tonight!
Join us to hear how the beer turned out, future plans for it, and general show talk.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Ok, so we didn't actually buy Hamms for the show (sorry!), but Jason had some Budweiser...
Join us for a chat about Michigan Beer Cup updates, Imperial Kolsch (!) updates, upcoming shows, and just a general chatty evening.
Cheers!
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
From fruits, to spices, to whole pies, there's no end of what you can use to add interesting and innovative flavors to beer. Come have a beer while we talk about all of our favorite ways to flavor beers, talk about do's (and dont's), and banter a bit in between.
Cheers!
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Happy New Year!
Come hang out and have a beer while we talk about some of the "fun" homebrew competitions we have participated in the past like cookie beer, cereal beer, or fantasy beer draft comp.
We are also going to be playing with the "Beer Generator" which is an app that Brian created to help generate fun / weird beer recipe ideas. We are getting ready to launch the second Beer Generator Comp for Keepers of Craft next week, so we will be having it create a few recipes for us so we can see how we would handle the different challenges it could throw at us.
Cheers!
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Its finally time for Episode 100! And what better way to commemorate the milestone than to get together with friends online, remanence about the year, share stories, and slam seltzers!
In past Friendsgiving shows, we have invited anyone that has participated in past shows to drop in, hang out for a few, and enjoy a beverage or two. So if you have ever been on the show, or you just enjoy watching / listening to it, and what to stop by virtually for a drink or six then shoot us a message, we will get you a link.
Cheers!
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
So....It's been a while. And we still want to make episode 100 special...
So we're going to do something slightly different in the meantime!
We have a plan for Episode 100, but we're still trying to find a good date to do it. In the interim, we're doing this!
Some of our studying-to-be BJCP judges expressed interest in wanting to practice scoresheets so we thought it would be fun to discuss some sheets live!
This show will be extremely biased. We gave every judge 2 bottles each of 2 different beers. They knew what the beers were, both brewer and style. This should be taken as a calibration only, and even then as an intermediate guideline.
That said, we think this will be a lot of fun! Everyone judged a bottle ahead of the show and has another done to drink while talking about their sheets. We hope to learn something from each other and hope you do too!
Cheers!
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
As our show regularly devolves into talk about competitions, it's only natural that we have a guest whose entire YouTube channel is centered around the same.
We welcome Bryan Fischer to episode 99 to discuss his channel "Let's Get Judgey", and talk about the BJCP and judge certification in general.
Cheers!