James Spencer from Basic Brewing Radio joins me to discuss 17 years of beer podcasting as well as some of his recent brewing experiments.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (55:48)
- James Spencer joins me this week from Basic Brewing Radio. James has been hosting the Basic Brewing podcast since July of 2015 and posted over 800 episodes. He also has a video podcast and DVD series on how to brew beer.
- James talks a bit about some of his recent projects as well as our trip to Homebrewcon in Pittsburgh.
- We discuss the early days of podcasting and his Basic Brewing radio show which was started in 2005 and now features 800+ episodes.
- James talks about Steve Wilkes, his co-host and how Steve got involved with the show.
- We talk about how homebrewing and podcasting have evolved over the years including much better knowledge, ingredients and equipment.
- James talks about the rise of Youtube and Google which have significantly reduced the sales of “How to” DVDs and books.
- We discuss James’ experiments into small batch beer brewing as well as no-boil and short boil brews.
- James discusses his “Sampler Series” where he explores the flavors of individual hops and malts.
- James gives us his closing thoughts on brewing and podcasting.
Sponsors
- Thank you to our sponsor Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine for sponsoring this episode. I encourage you to subscribe to their great magazine!
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Thanks to James Spencer for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
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