The Brewing Network Presents | Dr. Homebrew
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The Brewing Network Presents | Dr. Homebrew
Dr. Homebrew breaks down your home brewed beer and gives you the feedback you're looking for to improve your brewing! Join JP, along with his co-hosts, BJCP Master Judges Brian Cooper and Brian Schar, as they dissect listener-submitted homebrew and provide tips and tricks to improve your brewing! Ha...
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Dr. Homebrew | Episode #276: Back to the '90's
We had this idea: what if we had a few adventurous homebrewers brew beers according to some old set of BJCP style guidelines? Could they do it? What w...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #275: Brown Ale, IIPA, Gose, Rauchbier, and The End
It's a double episode, with four hombrews up for judging! Well ok, three homebrews and a collab but like, who cares? In addition to the wealth of home...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #274 We Talk Wine Vocabulary With Jake From Bedrock Wine Co.
Splitting the wine and beer worlds up was probably not the marketing plan craft beer should have gone with. So many flavors and descriptors cross thos...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #273: Rye IIPA and Double IPA Planning
Travis from Brew Strong is back with us, as we judge his Rye Double IPA. Not a style we usually see anymore, there was a time Rye IPA was pretty much...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #272: Travis from Brew Strong and his Double IPAs
It's the Brew Strong x Dr. Homebrew event of Cooper's dreams! Travis from Brew Strong sent in not one, but two Double IPAs, shattering any expectation...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #271: The Big Grab Bag of Commercial Beers (A Tasting)
Sometimes the day just calls for a big bag of beer to dig through, and that's what this episode is all about! Getting three beer judges together to ta...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #270: English Mild and American Stout
Homebrew, homebrew, everywhere, but not a brewer in sight! Today's show is back to homebrew, but our guest, Steve, was feeling under the weather so we...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #269: Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Tasting
Our friend Dave Teckam is back with us, as we dive into two Sierra Nevada Bigfoot vintages - one from 2024 and the other from way back in 2014. Most p...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #268: Cooper's Homemade Mead, and Jason's Brown Ale
Homebrew is back, baby! Even if we had to drag it across the internet ourselves, we were hell bent on judging some homebrew on this show, and that's w...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #267: More Winter Commercial Beers
Browsing the shelves at our local big box beer stores, we realized there are so many winter beers on the market today, and many of them sort of go aga...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #266: World Cup of Beer Competition Announcement and Santa's Butt
Homebrew competitions are thriving, and there's no competition quite like the World Cup of Beer here in the Bay Area! On today's show, Steve from the...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #265: Trying Commercial Holiday Beers for 2024
The holidays are among us, and so are the darker, sturdier beers. On today's show, we run through some classic Holiday beers as well as some new ones,...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #264: More NA beers with 8Zero5 and Santa Clausthaler
Browsing the beer shelves at the grocery store can sometimes yield amazing stuff. On our last trip to the store, we found two beers that seemed equall...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #263: Wet Hopping
It's wet hop season, and that means more than a few brewers are going to be packing their beers with tiny little flavor bombs of hoppy goodness this F...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #262: NA Oktoberfest and BJCP Exam Talk
Oktoberfest season is here, and we like digging around for examples of the style we don't normally see. When Brian Schar found this NA Oktoberfest, we...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode 261: English Porter and Commercial Oktoberfest Tasting
We're in the first throws of Oktoberfest season, so we thought it would only be appropriate to compare what the Germans are doing versus what the Amer...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #260: Radler and Chimay in Cans!
Wandering around the liquor store, we realized that we had yet to approach the subject of the humble Radler, and where that fits in with the current B...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #259: California Common Judging with the Inland Empire Brewers Pt. 2
The Inland Empire Brewers are back, and they brought more California Common for us! Part two of our massive deep-dive into the style of Cal Common, th...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #258: Cal Common with the Inland Empire Brewers Pt. 1
One of the oldest homebrewing clubs in the country floods us with one of the oldest styles in the state - California Common! are either of these claim...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #257: American Porter and Trail Pass NA Beer from Sierra Nevada
Porters are one of those styles that represent many entry points for old school brewers, so it's nice to see them come across our desks - especially f...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #256: American Amber Ale and BJCP Talk
It's not every day we get to chat it up with someone who has recently taken up the hobby of homebrewing, much lest taste their beers, so this show is...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #255: American Red Ale and Homebrewed Kombucha
On this week's show, we basically lean on JP again for content. He delivers an American Red Ale, which is a clone of the famous St. Rogue Red from Rog...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #254: Belgian Dark Strong and Hop Water Recipe!
Friend of the show Vito is back, and this time he's teaching us a thing or two! Vito has done a lot of research into what makes a great batch of hop w...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #253: Hazy IPA and Yuengling Clone
Hazy IPA gets a few new names on today's show, which might be just the thing it needs to finally catch on. Plus, we have a clone of the great Yuenglin...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #252: Baeren Beer From Japan and More N/A Talk!
As craft beer drinkers, we're always on the lookout for brands we have yet to encounter, and on today's show we talk about one such brewery found at o...

Dr. Homebrew | Episode #251: German Pilsner and Belgian Triple
German Pilsner and a Belgian Triple - two beers that could not be more opposite. On today's show, we have the brewer of both of these styles - Scott -...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #250: Barry From Lucky Envelope Brewing
Our friend Barry over at Lucky Envelope Brewing in Seattle recently subjected himself to a brew day with Warren and Dave Marliave. The beer that resul...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #249: Two Pils, One Show
Fresh of the heels of Christmas, the Dr. Homebrew crew rejoins in an epic defiance of a holiday hangover. On today's show, the boys break into a coupl...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #248: Czech Lager and Old Standby Brewing Co.
Czech Pale Lager needs to come in unassuming and almost nebulous to your senses. It's not an easy style to nail, and lucky for us we have a great exam...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #247: Mixed Fermentation Sour and Pumpkin Amber Ale
We've had mixed fermentation beers on this show before, but none of them have been done using the Solera method (at least we think). So on today's sho...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #246: American Pale Ale and Two Commercial Breakdowns
The rare three beer show today, as we welcome Jake to the show, with his American Pale Ale! After we toss him aside like an old piece of fruit, we cra...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #245: Julia Herz From the American Homebrewers Association talks English Bitter, Beer Pairings, and more!
We're a "One Beer, ONe Guest" kind of a show this week, as we welcome Julia Herz, Executive Director of the American Homebrewers Association! Julia se...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #244: The Dr. Hombre Mexican Lager Showdown
The boys have all let their beers properly lager, so it's time to bring the saga of Dr. Hombre to a close tonight, as we do our final tasting and scor...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #243: Guess The Style Lager and Hazy IPA
"Guess The Style" sounds dangerous, but we're professionals, so we came out the other side unscathed, yet somehow still scarred. We had a lager that k...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #242: Cold IPA Judging and Style Conversation
Cold IPA. Sure, it sounds good, but what even is it? Colin joins us again to help us figure out what a homebrewed version of this emerging style even...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #241: Blonde Ale and JP's Cream Ale
The style of Blonde Ale has come and gone over the years, and it seems like we're seeing a fresh resurgence of it - which is fine by us! Ben sent us h...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #240: Oak Aged Brown Ale and a Dr. Hombre Update: Brew Day
What does Lil' Wayne and a homebrewed beer have in common? They're both misunderstood by most people! Or something, look, just listen to this show to...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #239: Rye IPA and Cold IPA
Two styles of IPA that seem to go through stages of popularity - the Rye IPA and the humble Cold IPA. One is a blast from the past with some rich malt...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #238: The Legacy of Smoked Beer with Matthias from Schlenkerla
Smoked beer is about as polarizing a flavor as you can get, even to hardcore beer nerds. Given our recent rekindling of our smoke beer fetish on this...
Dr. Homebrew | Episode #237: The Mexican Lager Episode
Brian x2 and Jason decide it's high time they all start contributing beer to the show, for better or worse. Before this week's show started, the boys...