{"id":3512,"date":"2013-01-12T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:32:19","slug":"eco-friendly-brewing-with-amelia-loftus-beersmith-podcast-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/eco-friendly-brewing-with-amelia-loftus-beersmith-podcast-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Friendly Brewing with Amelia Loftus &#8211; BeerSmith Podcast #53"},"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\/2013\/01\/12\/eco-friendly-brewing-with-amelia-loftus-beersmith-podcast-53\/\">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 we discuss eco-friendly home brewing with Amelia Loftus. Amelia is an writer on ecologically friendly brewing and also a founding member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breworganic.com\/\">Seven Bridges Cooperative<\/a>, a brewing supply shop that specializes in organic ingredients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beersmith\/BSHB-53-Eco-Brewing.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-53-Eco-Brewing.mp3]\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5Ig8Fws7s4\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Topics in This Week&#8217;s Episode (42:50)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Amelia Loftus is my guest this week. Amelia is an expert on ecologically friendly brewing and also a founding member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breworganic.com\/\">Seven Bridges Cooperative<\/a>, a brewing supply shop that specializes in organic ingredients. She&#8217;s also working on a new book on eco-friendly brewing to published in the Spring of 2014. Amelia runs a website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amelialoftus.com\/\">AmeliaLoftus.com<\/a> and also has started a new <a href=\"http:\/\/amelialoftus.com\/phpBB3\/index.php\">eco-friendly brewing discussion forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We start with a discussion of what eco-friendly brewing is, and why it is important.<\/li>\n<li>I ask Amelia about her role as a founding member of Seven Bridges Cooperative, an organic brewing supply store. We also discuss some of the advantages of using organic ingredients in your beer brewing.<\/li>\n<li>Amelia describes her experiments with growing her own hops and grains at home.<\/li>\n<li>We discuss how to choose equipment for eco-friendly brewing and also what some advantages are of making good purchases up front.<\/li>\n<li>Amelia offers some advice on choosing chemicals for cleaning in brewing that will not harm the environment<\/li>\n<li>We discuss what to do with spent grains. Amelia has a recipe for <a href=\"http:\/\/amelialoftus.com\/recipes.html\">spent grain energy bars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We discuss some steps to use in the brewing process to be energy efficient<\/li>\n<li>Amelia covers some ways to be efficient with fermentation and packaging<\/li>\n<li>We discuss a bit about the upcoming book she is working on in eco-friendly brewing<\/li>\n<li>Amelia provides a few closing thoughts<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a link to her recipe: <a href=\"http:\/\/beersmithrecipes.com\/viewrecipe\/87316\/barleys-bark-brown-ale\">Barley&#8217;s Bark Brown Ale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Amelia Loftus 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 href=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/subscribe\">my newsletter<\/a> (use the links in the sidebar) \u2013 to get free weekly articles on home brewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This week we discuss eco-friendly home brewing with Amelia Loftus. 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