The Beer Craft, Homebrewing Podcast

The Beer Craft, Homebrewing Podcast

Benjamin Holm

Episodes 66
Avg. Duration 1h 2m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (5)
Since Oct 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
71%
Hosting
rss.pdrl.fm

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About This Podcast

Your weekly pint of beer and brewing wisdom from Ben Holm and Andrew Ziegler. Each week, a new episode shares the history, brewing tips, and a look at the Pacific Northwest beer scene. Brought to you by Northwest Brewers Supply.

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Recent Episodes

Spruce Tips and Survival Tips

Jun 03, 2026 51m

Before refrigeration. Before vitamin supplements. Before anyone knew what vitamin C even was. People brewed with trees. This week, Ben and Andrew trace the surprising history of spruce beer, a drink…

S2E19 Did home distilling become legal?

May 21, 2026 54m

If you take corn, rye, and barley, add some yeast, and what do you get? You could be brewing a Kentucky common beer, and no one will bat an eye, but the moment you run that through a still...…

S2E18 This is Modern Alchemy

Apr 30, 2026 53m

The ancient alchemists never figured out how to turn lead into gold, but they did help crack open the door to modern chemistry, laboratory science, and the very human habit of asking, "What happens…

S2E17 Teramar Brewstillery

Apr 16, 2026 1h

Way back at the beginning of this podcast I sat down with Greg Pore co-owner and brewer at Terramar brewing and we had a fantastic talk about Berlinerweisse. Unfortunately we weren't ready to have…

S2E16 Beer Myths that Refuse to Die.

Apr 02, 2026 59m

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S2E63 Fake News & Cold Beer: The Fall of Pulque

Mar 19, 2026 1h 1m

Before Corona. Before Tecate. Before Mexican lager. Mexico had pulque, pronounced POOL-keh, a thick, funky, fermented agave drink that was once one of the most popular alcoholic drinks in the…

S2E14 Make Beer Cheap Again

Mar 05, 2026 1h 16m

We aren't getting political, but the price of a 4 pack of beer in the grocery store is getting a little ridiculous. $16 four packs! This week on The Beer Craft, we break down the numbers and look at…

S2E13 Northwest Beer Report

Feb 28, 2026 58m

I know I had posted this as a Make Beer Cheap Again, but I mixed up my audio files. This week on the Podcast we take a look at the Northwest Beer Scene and answer some burning questions from the…

S2E12 Malt Analysis You Can Use

Feb 12, 2026 59m

We did a whole show about reading a COA, but sometimes we need something that we can chew on. This week on The Beer Craft we are looking at what we can do to test and evaluate our grain choices…

S2E11 Wine kits: How the other half drinks.

Feb 05, 2026 1h

Because I am more than a barley obsessed wrangler of single cell intoxicant creating critters, we are talking about wine kits! I know that both employ the tallents of saccharomyces cerevisiae, and…

S2E10 Steam Beer: Origens, and Unlikly Hero of Craft Beer.

Jan 29, 2026 1h 3m

If there ever was a beer that started the craft beer movement, a beer with one foot firmly rooted in history, and led by an unlikely pioneer, it would have to be San Francisco's Anchor Steam Beer. A…

S2E9 The easiest All-Grain Brew Day. Brew in a Bag.

Jan 22, 2026 1h 10m

We sit down with a reguluar listener, Adam Woodworth and taste a line up of Pale Ales while discussing the in's and outs of Brew in a Bag (BIAB). We'll go over the process and dispel a few rumors…

S2E8 The Botany of Beer

Dec 11, 2025 1h 22m

Going Way Beyond Rosemary time and basil this week on the Beer Craft Home Brewing Podcast, we take a look at the Botany of beer. We take a look at what Mother Nature has in store for the brewhouse,…

S2E7 The Belgian Beer Blueprint

Dec 04, 2025 1h 4m

Belgian beer looks chaotic from the outside, but there's a clear blueprint once you know where to look. This episode breaks down the core ideas behind the country's brewing culture and explains why…

S2E6 Making Time for Beer

Nov 27, 2025 1h 8m

Recently I surveyed the local brewing community to find out directly what were the most significant sources of frustration, or problems they had in brewing. I wanted to put my finger on the pulse of…

S2E5 Cold IPA: The most Pacific Northwest thing Since Flannel

Nov 20, 2025 1h 11m

We're closing out our five-part beer design run with a bang. The last gap on the Northwest Brewers Supply beer list is a Cold IPA, so that's tonight's target. Is a Cold IPA just an IPL in new…

S2E4 On Air Beer Design part 4: Redheaded Beer, Aka, the Amber Ale

Nov 13, 2025 55m

Part 4 of the series, On Air Beer Design. Tonight, we tackle an Amber Ale. This hybrid of a Pale Ale was the signature beer for the West Coast for anyone who didn't want an IPA. I think we might have…

S2E4 On Air Beer Design part 3

Nov 06, 2025 1h 2m

This week on the podcast, we put our heads together on an oatmeal stout. We had plenty of inspiration, including a maple coconut stout that we are still drooling over. Why wouldn't you want to…

S2E3 On Air Beer Design part 2

Oct 30, 2025 1h

We are back in the studio with another round of beer design. We wanted to create two more beers this week but we talk too much. We did manage to come up with another recipe, this time a mexi lager.…

S2E2 On Air Beer Design, Part 1

Oct 23, 2025 1h

This week on The Beer Crafters, Ben and Andrew put their recipe-building hats on for a design session straight from the back room at Northwest Brewers Supply. First up: a crisp, clean classic…

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