
Episode 2 – The Rise of the Robots
11/25/15 • -1 min
In Episode 2 – Denny and Drew talk about the rise of the brewing robots and what they mean for us homebrewers. Are our “jobs” about to be farmed out to a microchip that can make better beer than we can before we've have our morning coffee? Is it really still brewing if a computer is doing all the watching? Also, what does it mean to be Craft Beer?
Table of Contents:
00:00:00 – Our sponsors
00:01:16 – Theme and Intro!
00:02:30 – Our Sponsorship Pledge and Patreon
00:05:00 – The Beer Life (from the Experimental Brewing Pub)
00:05:55 – The IGOR Program
00:07:40 – Everything is Craft Beer
00:18:00 – The Rise of the Robots
00:33:35 – Q&A with Denny & Drew
00:44:20 – Quick Tip of the Week (with a bonus quick tip as well!)
00:48:55 – Other Things We Recommend
00:50:50 – Our Question of the Week – Are automated brewing gadgets really brewing? – let us know at [email protected]
00:51:20 – The Wrapup
This week's episode is brought to you:
PicoBrew – http://www.picobrew.com/
Craftmeister – http://www.craftmeister.com/
BrewCraft USA – http://www.brewcraftusa.com/
NikoBrew – http://nikobrew.com/
Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) – contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it – talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!
This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_...
Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss
In Episode 2 – Denny and Drew talk about the rise of the brewing robots and what they mean for us homebrewers. Are our “jobs” about to be farmed out to a microchip that can make better beer than we can before we've have our morning coffee? Is it really still brewing if a computer is doing all the watching? Also, what does it mean to be Craft Beer?
Table of Contents:
00:00:00 – Our sponsors
00:01:16 – Theme and Intro!
00:02:30 – Our Sponsorship Pledge and Patreon
00:05:00 – The Beer Life (from the Experimental Brewing Pub)
00:05:55 – The IGOR Program
00:07:40 – Everything is Craft Beer
00:18:00 – The Rise of the Robots
00:33:35 – Q&A with Denny & Drew
00:44:20 – Quick Tip of the Week (with a bonus quick tip as well!)
00:48:55 – Other Things We Recommend
00:50:50 – Our Question of the Week – Are automated brewing gadgets really brewing? – let us know at [email protected]
00:51:20 – The Wrapup
This week's episode is brought to you:
PicoBrew – http://www.picobrew.com/
Craftmeister – http://www.craftmeister.com/
BrewCraft USA – http://www.brewcraftusa.com/
NikoBrew – http://nikobrew.com/
Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) – contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it – talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!
This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_...
Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss
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Podcastlet – Meet Us In San Francisco
In Between Episode Travel Announcement! (Next episode on 11/23)
Denny and Drew will be in San Francisco (ok, the East Bay Area – mostly) this Friday and Saturday at the MoreBeer Los Altos, MoreBeer San Leandro and MoreBeer Concord. Come on out and meet us! We'll have books for sale and we'll take your abuse or questions!
Details on the site! – http://www.experimentalbrew.com/content/meet-denny-and-drew-bay-area-112...
Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) – contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science!
In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it – talk it up!
If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing).
If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]!
Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss
Next Episode

Episode 3 – Over a Barrel, Experimentally
PROFANITY WARNING – There are a few unbleeped blue utterances in this podcast – if you're sensitive to blueness, please wear headphones! In Episode 3 – Denny and Drew start out in the Pub talking about a distressing topic – the possible decline of homebrewing, the causes and what all of us can do about it. Then we get into the real meat of our whole show as we head into the Experimental Brewing Labs in Casa Verde – it's experimentation time! Back in Episode 1 we walked you through a triangle test, now it's time to use it! In this episode, we'll describe the experiment and a few episodes down the line, we'll bring you the results of the IGORs testing and take your results as well! Then we're off to the Bay Area, where if you read our blog, you'll know we talked to a bunch of brewers – this week, we bring you our interview with Jay Goodwin of the Rare Barrel in Berkeley as he drops a bunch of sour beer knowledge on our puny little heads. We'll then take your questions and see if we can't start a fight between Denny & Drew before Denny gives you a little working knowledge about your pump head and then talks to you about his love for the world's favorite silly instrument – the ukulele! Episode Links:
Experiment Description – http://www.experimentalbrew.com/experiments/yeast-comparison-same-strain...
Recipe – http://www.experimentalbrew.com/recipes/magnum-blonde-no-aroma-variant
The Rare Barrel – https://www.therarebarrel.com/
Ohana Music (aka Denny's Ukulele's of choice) – http://www.ohana-music.com/
Survivor Girl Ukulele Band – Drew kept getting the name wrong, but check out one of the best uses for music – http://www.sgub.org/
Episode Contents: 00:00:00 Our Sponsors 00:01:40 Theme and Intro! 00:04:50 Beer Life from the Experimental Brewing Pub – The Decline of Homebrewing 00:16:59 Experiments – Our first experiment – WLP001 vs. Wyeast 1056 00:26:07 Live at the Rare Barrel with Jay Goodwin 01:03:03 Q&A with Denny & Drew 01:14:34 Quick Tip – Keeping Your Head Clear 01:16:04 Other Things We Recommend: Ukulele & The Ukulele Survivor Girl Project 01:18:58 Wrap up This episode is brought to you:
BrewCraft USA Craftmeister NikoBrew PicoBrew
Interested in helping Denny and Drew with the IGOR program (aka help us run experiments!) – contact them at [email protected]. We want more Citizen Science! On our next episode we'll be giving our IGOR's their first brewing assignment! In the meanwhile, subscribe via your favorite podcasting service (iTunes, etc). Like our podcast, review it – talk it up! If you have comments, feedbacks, harassments, etc, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook (ExperimentalHomebrewing) or Twitter (@ExpBrewing). If you have questions you'd like answered in our Q&A segment, send an email to [email protected]! This episode can be downloaded directly at http://www.experimentalbrew.com/sites/default/files/ExperimentalBrewing_... Podcast RSS Url: http://www.experimentalbrew.com/podcast.rss
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