Beer Brewing Q&A with John Palmer – BeerSmith Podcast #264

John Palmer joins me to discuss his upcoming book as well as hold a general beer brewing question and answer session.

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Topics in This Week’s Episode (44:35)

• This week I welcome back John Palmer. John is the author of the top selling book How to Brew as well as Water and Brewing Classic Styles (full disclosure: Amazon affiliate links used for books). John joins me this week to talk about water in beer.
• We start with a discussion about John’s new book about stove top and small batch brewing.
• We talk about how equipment has evolved since John started brewing.
• John shares his experience with brewing on the new all-in-one systems.
• We discuss how many brewers now start with all grain brewing without brewing from malt extract first.
• John shares his thoughts about the new yeast strains including Kviek, those with enhanced thiols and the new yeasts that also sour.
• We talk about the new science coming out about hop aroma survivability and new hop techniques.
• John talks about the importance of water and optimizing your water to create great beer.
• We discuss the Craft Beer IPA craze as well as the rise of alternative craft beers like lagers.
• John shares his thoughts on the impact of COVID on both homebrewing and craft brewing.
• We talk about some of John’s recent experiments in homebrewing.
• John shares his closing thoughts.

Sponsors

• Thank you to our sponsor Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine for sponsoring this episode. I encourage you to subscribe to their great magazine!
• And also Anvil Brewing Equipment. Anvil is a new line of kettles, burners and accessories from John Blichmann at Blichmann Engineering. They make top quality brewing equipment built to last a lifetime.
• Also check out BeerSmith, BeerSmith Web, BeerSmith Mobile software and the new DVDs John Palmer and I filmed – How to Brew with Malt Extract and How to Brew All Grain are available now. You can subscribe to the BeerSmith newsletter for free to get some great articles on home brewing.

Thanks to John Palmer for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
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