{"id":2986,"date":"2012-05-31T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:19:03","slug":"advanced-home-brewing-with-gordon-strong-beersmith-podcast-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/advanced-home-brewing-with-gordon-strong-beersmith-podcast-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Home Brewing with Gordon Strong &#8211; BeerSmith Podcast 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"beersmith\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/advanced-home-brewing-with-gordon-strong-beersmith-podcast-39\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-mic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"blog-mic\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-mic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This week my guest is Gordon Strong, three time Ninkasi award winner (best in the US) and a Grandmaster Beer Judge. We discuss advanced homebrewing techniques &#8211; specifically for all grain brewers who have the basics of beer brewing down but want to do more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beersmith\/BSHB-39-Adv-Brewing-Strong.mp3\">Download the MP3 File <\/a>\u2013 Right Click and &#8220;Save As&#8221; to download this mp3 file<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beersmith\/BSHB-39-Adv-Brewing-Strong.mp3]\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0w0BfUARazw\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Topics in This Week&#8217;s Episode (51:41)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gordon Strong, the author of &#8220;Brewing Better Beer&#8221; a book for advanced home brewers, as well as a three time Ninkasi award winner, and President of the BJCP joins us this week to talk about advanced beer brewing,<\/li>\n<li>We start by discussing some of the things you need to consider once you have the basics of all grain brewing down and are designing your own recipes.<\/li>\n<li>Gordon shares thoughts on brewing water and how too many water additions can ruin your beer.<\/li>\n<li>We discuss the best use of dark grains &#8211; steeping them instead of mashing in most cases to reduce harshness in darker beers.<\/li>\n<li>Gordon shares some tips for increasing the maltiness of your grains.<\/li>\n<li>We talk about a few of his favorite hop techniques including first wort hops and late addition hops, and also why Gordon does not do much dry hopping.<\/li>\n<li>Gordon shares a few examples of how he goes about designing beer and why he makes certain choices with his beers.<\/li>\n<li>Gordon&#8217;s Recipes he mentioned can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/beersmithrecipes.com\/viewrecipe\/9608\/gordons-american-pale-ale\">Gordon&#8217;s American Pale Ale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/beersmithrecipes.com\/viewrecipe\/9609\/gordons-brown-porter\">Gordon&#8217;s Brown Porter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Gordon Strong for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!<\/p>\n<h3>Thoughts on the Podcast?<\/h3>\n<p>Leave me a comment below or visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/beersmith.com\/forum\">discussion forum<\/a> to leave a comment in the podcast section there.<\/p>\n<h3>Subscribe to the Podcast<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Great News!<\/strong> We&#8217;ve been featured in the New and Notable podcasts on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/beersmith-home-brewing-blog\/id398500515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Subscribe on iTunes\" alt=\"Subscribe on iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.gif\" width=\"82\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are not using iTunes, you can subscribe using this feed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BeersmithcomHomeBrewingBlog<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, don&#8217;t forget to subscribe to the blog and <a 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