We talk to homebrew club officers Bryon Vlier and Drew Hutchison from Kalamazoo’s oldest homebrew club, KLOB.
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We talk with Ellie Maddelein, Assistant Brewer at Five Shores Brewing and a graduate of WMU’s Sustainable Brewing program.
We are going to have a very special show this week. With the help of our special guest, David Jones, we will be tasting some of the aged Bell’s beer that we were able to pick up from “Larry’s Cellar” at Bell’s General Store. We are going to be sampling Expedition Stout from 1994, 95, and 96, as well as 2004, 07, 08, and 09. We also have some early 2000’s Eccentric Ale and Cherry Stout that we may get into. So dig in your cellar, blow the dust off of something you have been saving and join us as we try some beer that’s old enough to buy beer!
We talk about best practices for making mead from the comfort of your own home. We’ll touch on a lot of introductory topics like water, honey varietals, nutrients, yeast choice and so on. Depending on how it goes we may make it a multi part series where we go into different styles of mead in later episodes like big sugary Schramm’s style mead, or bubbly refreshing session meads. Skål!
We hang out with John Mallett, VP of Operations at Bell’s Brewery, and literally the guy that wrote the book on Malt (pick up the Brewing Elements book, it’s seriously great). John has had a long career in the beer industry doing everything from brewing, to engineering, to teaching, and operations work. And obviously also writing! Join us as we pick his brain and, as always, just have a great time hanging out!
We hang out with Brian Confer, Co-Owner/Head Brewer and Chris Schnepf, Lead Brewer at Stormcloud Brewing Company in Frankfort Michigan. We will be sampling some of their Belgian inspired beers and getting to know more about this awesome northern Michigan brewery.
Hey folks are are back again with another Homebrew Review show! We are going to be trying a few beers and a mead donated by Kevin Penn and James Hancock of Livingston Social Brew Club… And we will do our best to tell you what we think 🙂 Please remember we are by no means certified to officially taste beer in any capacity, and our feed back is strictly for entertainment purposes only. So grab a homebrew and come hang out with us. What better way to chill out on a Monday evening!
It’s another Monday! We’re still organizing a Homebrew Review for 2/22/21, but in the meantime just want to have a chill night with ya’ll. We’ve had a lot of guests on lately (which has been amazing!) but want to just step back a sec and talk about what we learned as brewers over the last year. But of course we don’t want it to be all about us. We want to hear how all of you feel like you’ve grown too. Let’s talk homebrew, wine, mead, etc. and just have an awesome Monday night together.
We’re back again with Dana Wagner from Discover Kalamazoo and John Liberty from West Michigan Beer Tours to talk about the 2021 Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week (formerly known as Kalamazoo Beer Week). This week we have the privilege of talking with Barry Travis and Brian Bastien from The Mill at Vicksburg. For those unfamiliar with The Mill, Envision a campus – home to multiple breweries, barley malting and hops processing facilities, a local producers marketplace, retail & even live music! Construction is ongoing but we’re really excited to hear all about it! Grab a beer and come hang out with us!
This week we are going to be hanging out with Dana Wagner from Discover Kalamazoo and John Liberty from West Michigan Beer Tours to talk about the 2021 Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week (formerly known as Kalamazoo Beer Week), and how they have modified the event this year to work within the current precautions and restrictions. Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week will be kicking off on January 29th and will run through February 6th. The event has been expanded this year to include more Kalamazoo makers, adding local distilleries and wineries to join in with the breweries and celebrate the craft beverage industry as a whole. To give us a sneak peak of this year’s KBW, we are also going to be joined by Kevin and Michael Christensen, and Kevin Homan from Final Gravity Brewing! Final Gravity will have a few events taking place during KBW at their Kalamazoo location, and is also close to completing an expansion of their Decatur location, so there will be lots of cool stuff to chat about there. Grab a beer and come hang out with us!