Basic Brewing Video

Steve's back in the kitchen, cooking up two Thanksgiving holiday treats: Sweet Potato Pie and Sweet Potato Beer.

In the first part of a two-part tour, we head to Forest Grove, Oregon and see how Sake is brewed at SakeOne.

We get into the Halloween holiday spirit as we introduce a new feature: "Will It Mash?" James creates a monster mash by adding Frankenberry cereal.

We tour the small and adventurous Upright Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon and talk to Head Brewer Alex Ganum.

Steve shares the results of his experiment comparing five different chili peppers in the same base beer.

James and Andy head to Oregon to hang with home brewers and hop into the hops!

What happens when invading beetles destroy your hop crop? You brew anyway!

James and Steve visit Firestone Walker Brewery in Paso Robles, California, where they use oak barrels for primary fermentation.

James and Steve mingle among the home brewers at the National Homebrewers Conference Club Night.

James and Steve work the crowd at National Homebrewers Conference Pro Night.

James and Steve caramelize some sugar in an attempt to make syrup for a Belgian beer.

James and Steve bring together the yeasty cousins again for two takes on crusty deliciousness.

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.

James challenges Rick Sellers of Pacific Brew News and Draft Magazine to take us on a tour of the best beer in the country.

Erin Von Feldt from Bordinos restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas mixes it up with Steve Wilkes as they make beer cocktails.

James and Steve roast their own coffee on the patio with a hot air popcorn popper from a bygone era.

Steve whips up a unique smoked duck Asian pizza recipe to pair with home brewed Sake from viewer Bob Taylor.

Here's the recipe for Steve's wonderful little pizzas.

It's the final installment of the Base Malt Experiment as we use liquid yeast to ferment beers made with and without hops.

Steve Wilkes joins brewer Mike Dewey on a tour of Mt. Carmel Brewing Co. in Cincinnati - a commercial home brewery.

Homebrew clubs strut their stuff in Cincinnati at the National Homebrewers Conference. James and Steve sample their wares.

James and Steve work the crowd at the National Homebrewers Conference Pro Night in Cincinnati.

Our Base Malt Experiment continues as we compare beer with and without hops.

We get unexpected results when we compare unhopped beers made with three different base malts.

James and Steve risk their lives building a new trellis, and James gives a tour of his hopyard.

Field Trip! James and Steve head to Krebs, Oklahoma to tour the home of Choc Beer.

James joins Andy Sparks in his yard as Andy shows off his fancy homegrown hop trellis.

Here are the recipies for our Ancho Chili Lamb Ribs and Leftover Brewday Partigyle Beers.

Steve pairs Ancho Chili Country-Style Braised Lamb Ribs with a pair of beers from a recent partigyle brewday.

Got old yeast? Try making starters to bring it back to a full and fruitful life.

James and Steve steep up some specialty grains to compare how they look and taste.

Here are the recipies for our barleywine, wassail, and fruitcake.

In the second part of our two-part holiday series, the small batch barleywine from James goes into making a fruitcake from Steve.

In the first part of our two-part holiday series, Steve makes wassail with a small batch barleywine that James brewed.

Steve cooks up a delicious, hearty beef stew with beer as a holiday meal alternative.

Here's the recipe for Steve's Belgian Beer Stew.

James and Andy pair beer with cheese, and Andy shows us how to make cheese - a fresh mozzarella.

James is flying solo, and he's in a hurry! The solution is a very quick and hoppy Amarillo Ale.

James brews a Simcoe Ale with bread yeast, and Steve bakes bread with beer yeast.