Introducing The Beer Craft, Beer and Brewing Podcast.
The Beer Craft: Beer and Brewing Podcast is your ultimate guide to homebrewing. Hosted by Ben Holm and Andrew Ziegler, this podcast is all about celebrating the craft of brewing beer, wine, cider, and mead. Each episode dives deep into the heart of brewing, offering everything from practical tips and techniques and history lessons that inspire and entertain to fascinating interviews with professional brewers. Whether you’re just starting or an expert looking for new ideas, The Beer Craft delivers insights, laughs, and the inspiration to make your next beer your best beer. It is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartradio, Amazon Music/Audible, and YouTube.
Tune in on Wednesday at 6:30 Pacific time for new episodes.
- We aren't getting political, but the price of a 4 pack of beer in the grocery store is getting a little ridiculous. $16 four packs! This week on The Beer Craft, we break down the numbers and look at the economy of homebrewing. You can actually save money on beer by making it yourself. Plus, […]
- I know I had posted this as a Make Beer Cheap Again, but I mixed up my audio files. This week on the Podcast we take a look at the Northwest Beer Scene and answer some burning questions from the field. Music Attribution "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "RetroFuture […]
- We did a whole show about reading a COA, but sometimes we need something that we can chew on. This week on The Beer Craft we are looking at what we can do to test and evaluate our grain choices without all the math. So put down your slide rules, grab a beer or four, […]
- Because I am more than a barley obsessed wrangler of single cell intoxicant creating critters, we are talking about wine kits! I know that both employ the tallents of saccharomyces cerevisiae, and that one molecule of glucose or sucrose amounts to the same thing as far as those unicellurlar marvels are concerned, and that just […]
- If there ever was a beer that started the craft beer movement, a beer with one foot firmly rooted in history, and led by an unlikely pioneer, it would have to be San Francisco's Anchor Steam Beer. A beer style that was practicly extinct, a mere footnote in the lineup of a failing brewery, and […]
- We sit down with a reguluar listener, Adam Woodworth and taste a line up of Pale Ales while discussing the in's and outs of Brew in a Bag (BIAB). We'll go over the process and dispel a few rumors this week on The Beer Craft. Music Attribution "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative […]
- Going Way Beyond Rosemary time and basil this week on the Beer Craft Home Brewing Podcast, we take a look at the Botany of beer. We take a look at what Mother Nature has in store for the brewhouse, how to use them, and what we can do with them. There are more than a […]
- Belgian beer looks chaotic from the outside, but there's a clear blueprint once you know where to look. This episode breaks down the core ideas behind the country's brewing culture and explains why Belgian brewers create beers that don't fit into tidy boxes. Ben and Andrew cover the four families of Belgian beer, the role […]
- Recently I surveyed the local brewing community to find out directly what were the most significant sources of frustration, or problems they had in brewing. I wanted to put my finger on the pulse of the modern homebrewer. By far, the most common problem respondents had was making time to brew. Since the pandemic, we […]
- We're closing out our five-part beer design run with a bang. The last gap on the Northwest Brewers Supply beer list is a Cold IPA, so that's tonight's target. Is a Cold IPA just an IPL in new clothes? The BJCP hasn't said a word about it, so we dig into the difference. We look […]
- Part 4 of the series, On Air Beer Design. Tonight, we tackle an Amber Ale. This hybrid of a Pale Ale was the signature beer for the West Coast for anyone who didn't want an IPA. I think we might have a tasty litttle number when we get throught the brew day. So Sit back […]
- This week on the podcast, we put our heads together on an oatmeal stout. We had plenty of inspiration, including a maple coconut stout that we are still drooling over. Why wouldn't you want to listen to that? Music attribution "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ RetroFuture […]
- We are back in the studio with another round of beer design. We wanted to create two more beers this week but we talk too much. We did manage to come up with another recipe, this time a mexi lager. We will come upo with a oatmeal stout next week. So sit back with […]
- This week on The Beer Crafters, Ben and Andrew put their recipe-building hats on for a design session straight from the back room at Northwest Brewers Supply. First up: a crisp, clean classic Pilsner. Then, a malty heavyweight we're probably calling the "Agrivator" — a Doppelbock with enough attitude to stir up a few […]
- This episode marks the anniversary of the show and the start of Season 2. Hard to believe we are still at it. Most podcasts end after 11 episodes. There is so much of you, the listeners, to blame for that. Thanks for joining us along the way. This week on the Beer Craft, we take […]
- The flavor of apple is not known as a star in the world of beer thanks to Acetaldehyde, but what about Pear? Can we shape a pale ale around the other fall fruit? This Week on the Show, we sit down with Mark Lutz, a long-time homebrewer and friend of the show, to talk about […]
- Beer History has been one of the ways that keep me ingaged in this hobby. A while back I thought about the beers that started the craft beer movement, from Fritz Maytag's Anchor Steam to Ken Grossman's Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Here in Washington, there was a standout with the slogan "Think Globally, Drink Locally" […]
- This week on The Beer Craft, Beer, and Brewing Podcast, we're talking cider with Jenn Knutzen — graduate of the Cider Institute of North America, Cardinal Craft Brewing alum, and judge at the 2023 Northwest Cider Cup in Portland. Jenn brings a deep well of knowledge about orchards, fermentation, and the way cider culture is […]
- Get ready for an unpredictable ride as Ben and Andrew tackle twenty homebrew queries they haven't seen ahead of time. From fermentation basics to bizarre ingredient tales, each question sparks off‑the‑cuff reactions and lively banter. Hear the hosts puzzle through mash temps, yeast health and ancient brewing lore while sharing plenty of laughs along the […]
- So much content! Picking up where we left off, we continue our conversation about equipment calibration. Tune in and hear the rest of the story. If you missed the first half you can listen right here: https://sites.libsyn.com/549992/give-your-brew-stand-a-tune-up-calibrating-your-gear Music attribution "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ RetroFuture […]