In which Pigweed and Crowhill, long-time homebrewers, talk about beer for 40 minutes.
They start with hop classifications, and review Pigweed’s 3 categories of hops
- Tobacco / Earthy (Fuggle, Mt. Hood, Northern Brewer, Saaz)
- Even skunky
- Piney (Chinook, Northern Brewer, Simcoe)
- Resins and stickiness
- Fruity
- Grapefruit
- Tropical fruit?
About what about cold beer? Why is it so important to drink beer cold? For much of history, beer was drunk warm, or at least not cold, and in cold climates, a mug of warm ale would revive you. But Americans seem to like their beer very cold.
A relatively new craze on the beer scene is sour beer. What makes a beer sour, and why do people like that? (Our friends at Hysteria Brewing make a lot of sours!)
The boys also take issue with their fellow beer geeks who seem to think they have to criticize Budweiser.
They end the show with a pair of homebrew beer challenges.