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, and see how they would fall in the current BJCP guidelines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh The Brewing Network

Jamil and the crew invite Michael "Mufasa" Ferguson back for another round of Question and Answer! Topics include: High Gravity Brewing, Bottle Carbonation, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh Justin Crossley

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 equally interesting, for different reasons. The first is a non-alcoholic version of 805 from Firestone-Walker called ... 8Zero5. The other is a holiday beer from Clausthaler. Learn more about your ad choice…

Decoction mashing has been something of a debate in homebrewing for decades - should you do it, should you not? To add to this conversation, Jamil and the boys invited good friend of the BN Michael "Mufasa" Ferguson on the show to talk about his thoughts on decoction mashing, and to offer some tips on how to do it the right way! Learn more about yo…

On this episode of The Session we welcome Morgan Territory Brewing from Tracy, CA. to the show. Brewmaster Craig Cauwels and Head Brewer James Noah join us in the Hop Grenade studio to discuss their multi-award winning beers and the story of how Morgan Territory came to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Author and beer journalist Breandán Kearney joins The Session to discuss his new book, Hidden Beers of Belgium. The book also features incredible photography of the people, places and beer from photographer Ashley Joanna. Breandán has spent the greater part of a decade learning about and immersing himself in Belgian beer culture and has uncovered s…

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 Fall. On today's show, we taste two local Fresh Hop beers to find the differences in flavor between the two, and we discuss what wet hopped beers are supposed to taste like, and how you can best make o…

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 had to crack it open on the show and see what it was all about. Plus, our pal Dimitri lands back on the show, to talk about how his BJCP exam went, and to drop some tips on how to git gud. Learn more…

Brewmaster Nick Mamere from Bartlett Hall and Bartlett Brewing Company joins us on The Session to discuss his award winning dark ales and Belgian style brews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh The Brewing Network

It's time for more answers to listener questions! On today's show, the guys are fielding more great homebrewing questions - some are even from this year! Topics include water pH adjustments, the best way to ferment lagers, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh Justin Crossley

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association joins The Session to discuss the 2024 mid-year craft beer survey results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh The Brewing Network

It feels like there's no end to the growing list of terms homebrewers have to learn in order to continue making the best beer possible - which is a good thing, as it means the hobby is still growing! Today, we talk about what "ColdPooling" is, how you do it properly, and why you would even want to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.…

Founder and Brewer Joh Gillooly and Co-Founder Eric Ortega from Brix Factory Brewing join us this week on The Session. John and Eric have both been in the craft beer industry for years before venturing out on their own to start Brix Factory. Learn about their journey, the great beers, and how John really feels about the state of the industry. Learn…

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 Americans are up to. I mean, it's not that drastic, but I didn't know what else to say. We also have a homebrewed English Porter on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

We're dippin' into the mail bag again to answer your questions, and this week we have a lot of great ones. Topics include reusing yeast (and when to avoid it), capturing CO2 from your fermenter, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh Justin Crossley

In this second installment of our trip to the 2024 Firestone Walker Invitational in Paso Robles, CA. we change things up a bit topic-wise. For this discussion we decided to cover some of the things that breweries do other than beer, like community outreach, partnerships, causes, and involvement in things that their customers care about. So we enlis…

Look, it happens to everyone eventually. You do your best to make sure those little yeast cells have what they need to have a great ferment, but somehow it all goes wrong. On today's show, the boys talk about how to tell if your fermentation is stuck, what you can do about it, and ways to prevent it from happening in the first place. Learn more abo…

At long last, one of our favorite breweries, Original Pattern, out of Oakland, CA. joins us on The Session. We talk about our recent collaboration beer, The Session IPA, and taste through several amazing brews and styles with Head Brewer Andy Crocker, Senior Brewer Evan Collins, and Co-Director of Sales, Virginia Vaughn. Learn more about your ad ch…

In this special edition of The Session, we venture down to the 2024 Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival in Paso Robles, CA. Hosted by our good friends at Firestone Walker Brewing Company, this annual event has become a staple in the craft beer industry. For our part, we are graced with the opportunity to moderate the Behind the Beer Stage e…

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 BJCP guidelines. Plus, JP had never tried one before, so we had to pick some up. Meanwhile, in another isle, we stumbled across Chimay in cans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…

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, the Inland Empire Brewers flooded our halls with their takes on this style, and we gave them all the feedback they could ever want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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 claims true? Who can tell? On this show, we take down three Cal Common beers from three different brewers of the Inland Empire Brewers club! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

In this episode of The Session we are joined by Topher Boehm, Co-Founder and brewer at Australia's Wildflower. Originally hailing from the U.S. Topher found his way to Oz and fell in love with the native Gadigal-Wangal land around Sydney and later opened this unique brewery with a focus on making balanced, nuanced beer that's welcoming, nourishing,…

John Palmer joins Jamil on this LIVE episode of Brew Strong, as we gather to wish John Blichmann a happy retirement from Alibi Ale Works! Kevin, brewer and owner of Alibi, sits in to discuss his path to commercial brewing, and everyone has some nice things to say about John Blichmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

It's another mail bag day on Brew Strong - with some live questions tossed in for good measure! Today, the fellas talk about sanitizing gas line, the proper way to add dried malt extract to your boil, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh Justin Crossley