Basic Brewing Video

James and Steve create their own specialty grains by roasting Maris Otter pale malt for different lengths of time....

James travels to Bastrop, Texas, to the home of Chris Colby, editor of Brew Your Own magazine. Chris shows off his barley field and potted hops....

James divides, transplants, and shares his prized Cascade hops with Steve. Steve takes a turn as director....

Steve whips up a delicious bread pudding to celebrate fat Tuesday, using Ice Barleywine sauce as a topper....

James and Steve freeze a beer and melt the good stuff out of it....

James and Steve reuse the yeast from a vanilla coffee porter to ferment a pumpkin spice ale....

James and Steve experiment with two different methods of using coffee in brewing porters....

James and Steve sip the barleywine from a year ago and break in a new one for 2008 . . . and beyond....

James and Steve brew up a Pumpkin Ale while enjoying a delicious Barleywine with Maple sent in by a viewer....

James and Steve enjoy a low-gravity session beer and theorize on the effect of thin mashes on efficiency....

James and Steve are outstanding in their field! Actually, they're sitting in a patch of barley, drinking Belgian Brunettes....

James and Andy sit on the deck and think back on the fun times at the Great American Beer Festival....