Podcast: Craft brewing chatter from Carson Souza at Pig Minds
This episode features a remote podcast with
Pig Minds Brewing head brewer Carson Souza. We do our best to extract his beginnings and discover out he's been brewing to his own soundtrack, and then some! It's a wild ride through some deep conversation from a bright and rising star in the craft brewing scene. We also do some tasting of his newest beer called Juicy Minds, a clear and clean version of the New England IPA...or perhaps, it's the Midwest IPA?! Add another tasty treat with a very solid Hefeweizen, and we finished the night off with a spicy sipping of Kent's Chipotle Porter home brew (which incidentally, blended fabulously with Carson's Maple Porter...just saying). We also put Pig Minds operations manager, Shane Johnson, to the test with a "
Real or Fake - Bands and Brewery Collaborations"...yes, Kid Rock, ACDC, Pearl Jam and Warren Haynes all drop into the trivia fun. Speaking of collaboration beers, we do a fun tasting of
Wood-Aged Bitches Brew from DogFishHead, a tribute to Miles Davis famous jazz-fusion masterpiece. This beer is worth seeking out, with notes of sweet roast coffee, and aromas of vanilla, licorice and chocolate. We got wood, too:) All this while our home brew club friends from Forest City Brewers hung out in the brewery for their monthly tasters guild. Share this podcast with your friends (below) and send us your feedback for what you'd like us to talk about. Plus...tune in next episode as we entertain more home brew escapades with Mike Coisman and his beer, cider, mead and wine making processes!
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Wanna Quickie? This podcast episode features a short "how to" for home brewing fast lagers. With a little more detail to gravity and temperature step acceleration, you could possibly cut your lagers and pilsners down to 4 weeks, give or take depending on how you serve them. Thanks a bunch to those sharp minds at Brulosophy for the Fast Lager experimenting! We also share some tastings of some great lagers from New Glarus (Two Women and Totally Naked), Victory (Home Grown Lager) and Steamworks (Pilsner). Yum! Plus the guest beer of honor comes from our sponsor, Pig Minds which features a 6th anniversary beer called Farmango, a 4.8 AVB kettle-soured farmhouse ale blended with mangos. More Yum! Talk about quickies...Kent leads a Real or Fake "Speed Trivia" segment and we fool around a bit more with the show theme to explore some unusual "quickie" destinations ... hey, you only live once ... we thinks?! And...catch the interesting vibe from the music in-and-outs of Tin Tin Can, a reverb-soaked Chicago band, as well as some brief history on Nazareth, Tame Impala and QOTSA albums to round out the highlights. Share this podcast with your friends (below) and send us your feedback for what you'd like us to talk about. Plus...tune in next episode as we trek out to the ballpark again with the Forest City Brewers serving their awesome home brews at the Brews on First Beer Festival in Rockford! #drinkitup 
This home-brew podcast goes remote to Rivets stadium in Rockford, IL with the 
This podcast episode features a chat with Mike Coisman, a home brew guru thats not afraid to expand his experiences to just about anything that ferments. Mike is a seasoned brewer that takes on beer, wine, cider and meads to the point of overkill, on purpose. His award-winning brews are delightful and story is even better. He share a Pliney the Younger clone brewed on Big Brew Day 2017 (and still chewy good!), as well as an assortment of sumptuous meads and share s some great tips for any homebrewer willing to sit through this fun show. We also put 
Octoberfest Beer Lineup: O'Dell - 
This podcast episode is all about Home Brew Clubs with an intimate interview with Mike Sears, President and veteran home brewer with the 
A RED (white and blue) Home Brew Podcast featuring Tim Lundquist, his Flanders Red Merlot Barrel-Aged project and a look into the mind that operates a "big" home brew setup. Plus we do craft beer tastings of Lagunitas Lucky 13, ODell Flemish Giant, New Glarus Raspberry Tart, Pig Minds Southy Bitch Slap and flurry of sour home brews. HomeBrew RockStars dive into brewing traditional Belgian Sours. Guest home brewer Tim Lundquist has a ton of experience brewing all kinds of beer and shares some key techniques for brewing sour beer and barrel-aging. We also sample Tim's fabulous Kriek Lambic and a couple other home brews he talks about brewing. All this above accompanied by 
Listen in on Brent, Mike and Kent as they spend some time with Mike Gifford (Forest City Brewers) talking beekeeping, brewing (and tasting) Belgian style ales and discussing why there's so many varieties of honey (even marijuana honey). The show delves into earthy subjects as the boys taste an assortment of well-aged Belgian beers from the likes of Ommegang, Trappiste Rochefort 10, St.Bernardus Abt 12, Pig Minds Brewing Co. Belgian Golden Ale and guest brewer Giff's 4 year old belgian home brew. Giff shares a clone attempt from harvesting Bell's Hopslam yeast, Kent talks about brewing with New Zealand hops and Mike shares some "buzzy" wisdom from none other than Albert Einstein. The show features cuts from an old 5 Yard Load record and we discuss other music from The Last Vegas, Name the Moon and Mana Kintorso. Please SHARE this post with your friends (buttons below)! Or better yet... [mc4wp_form] 
