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basicbrewing.com has the podcast up: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/6052481 Best, joe

Oh, that rumor has not happened yet on the ole east coast.

Here is the story and video from Philly Brew Scene: http://www.beerscenemag.com/features/a-homebrewers-corner-feature-solar-brewing.html

They are from the inside of projection TV's, go find them on curbs. What DHS guff?

You know, when Roasted Barley came around with the simple idea of not malting it before kilning it, some folks had your attitude I'm sure back then. I'm sure Guinness did not pay them any mind.

Did they use the sun to boil the wort for an hour? I agree, Solar Hot Water has been around a long, long, time - but that is not the same as what I did.

If you look at modern breweries like Harpoon, they use pressurized brew kettles. Water boils in a regular pressure cooker at about 250F. If you look at the formula for IBU's, the hop utilization is dependent on temperature (boiling 212F) and gravity. The best you can get is around 30%...

Yes, the big apprehensiveness about having a video team coming over to document your solar brewing is the sun not showing up. All-grain could have been completed in that afternoon due to clear skies -- but I only had one chance to get it right... and it was cloudy in the morning, so we did an...

Hi, we do not presently have videos of the all-grain batch we did the week before because the video team could not make it, but we did do an all grain batch and it is like a decoction. Roasting Hops bring out all the smell of its close cousins, they burn like cigarettes and the ash can color...

Hi, Of course we did not use the water in the black hose, we used that water through a wort chiller to fresh water for the beer. It is a 10 gal corny and we did not boil the grains either.