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+Episode: 1998
+Title: HPR1998: Homebrewing
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1998/hpr1998.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 13:03:19
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+This is HPR Episode 1998 entitled Thumbring.
+It is hosted by M1RR Nero R5H4D35 and is about 24 minutes long, the summary is a bit
+about making your own beer.
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+Hello World, Mirror Shades here again, before I get into the episode, I just wanted
+to talk a little bit about some of the feedback from my first show.
+So first of all, my handle, the one that gives the speech synthesis fits, I actually got
+that from the title of a book, it's an old book, I think it came out in 1986, it's called
+Mirror Shades, a cyberpunk anthology and it's edited by Bruce Sterling, I think you can
+still buy it on Amazon, it's, I was just feeling nostalgic and of course if you're going
+to do a cyberpunk handle, you have to do it and leave, that's just how it is.
+Also the tape recorder, the reason why I used that is I just found it, I forgot to even
+own this thing, I was cleaning out a closet, I had a bunch of hardware in there and I found
+it and there was a blank tape, actually a sealed, unused blank tape and so that's why I used
+it to record the first episode and a funny story after I recorded that show, the recorder
+quit working, it just died an unspectacular death and doesn't work anymore, oh well.
+So let's see, the last thing is my accent, I seem to have, when I apologize for my accent
+it's not because I'm ashamed of my accent or anything like that, I just never sure how
+much other people would be able to understand the words that I'm using, my accent's actually
+not terribly thick, when I'm going to tell you it's a little bit anecdotal, so in
+Kentucky it seems to be the further west you go, the milder the accent is and I grew
+up in Central Kentucky but most of my family is from Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky
+is more of the Appalachian region, it's the mountain area, so accents there are much
+much thicker and sometimes it can really be hard to understand if you're not familiar
+with them, so my speech is a little weird, it's a little bit of a mix which I guess is
+normal if you're from Central Kentucky, it's not as thick as an Eastern Kentucky accent
+but I usually understand what those people are saying, pretty well but I've heard accents
+Kentucky accents or I guess Appalachian accents that are so thick that you know many people
+have trouble understanding what they're saying, and you know that's okay, it's just, it's
+regional, some people mistake my accent for a Southern drawl and it's not, a Southern
+drawl is what you'll hear if you listen to someone who's from like Georgia or someplace,
+most of the people who settled in the Appalachian region are Irish, Scottish, German and some
+Scandinavian descent, so the accent here is pretty much unique to Appalachia and also
+before I get into the episode, I just wanted to share, I got something really cool here,
+my grandfather's father was born, raised, lived and died in Eastern Kentucky, I have a
+recording of him and I'm going to play just a snippet of it for you and so you can hear
+and a little bit more of an authentic Eastern Kentucky accent, it's kind of cool, I'll
+go ahead and play that now and then it's not very long, the whole recording I have is about an hour
+and a half, I'm just going to play a little just a couple of minutes, the audio quality on this
+is extremely rough, it was recorded in the early 90s and he was, I think he was in his 70s,
+so I'm just going to play that just as an aside, so you can hear that and then we'll get
+him to the episode itself.
+Sure did have a hard time, little brother, time to make a living, he had to raise him, he
+back in, he bought us out of the store, he'd get home and wanted to buy a bed, he'd
+get home and make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home, he'd get home and
+make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and
+make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and
+make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and
+make a bed, he'd get home, get a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home your
+house, and he'd get home, and he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed
+and he'd get home, he'd get home or make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'll give
+him a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and make a bed, he'd get home and
+And we learned how to fly there later, so was that the day when we played the roles of them here.
+That's all we need to say to you about is just open up the most out of the roles.
+Oh, she's echoed.
+And later, so that's what she's saying.
+That you know my day to day.
+It wouldn't make me get up.
+It wouldn't, it wouldn't move far away till it was one or two times.
+It meant I saw it as all this water.
+One day about it though, you didn't have to worry about it, if you wouldn't have.
+So far on the edge of that, you can just get your role on that land.
+That worked out pretty good, that way.
+I went to two families there, and I don't know how it was.
+That's no plan if he's wildly out there and I follow it.
+And I smiled.
+I started at an hour one day.
+I don't mean to stand on the road.
+You think only him.
+He gets to stop him in the castle right now, gotten to say it.
+I said, what world is that of you?
+Shit, I said, this makes the third time.
+I'll feel that it comes down the tone for you.
+Well, let's do that.
+It's a type of man's whole life.
+There's trouble, let's do care of that.
+I mean, it's back up in the tone for you.
+Well, you need to do something about that.
+You know what you'll do?
+That's right, he takes your big little role.
+Down you eight.
+Now then, why not turn the trailer by?
+Yeah.
+Well, W peque lzo, you know what I'm going to say.
+I'm going to turn it.
+You know what I'm doing, that's for you.
+Okay, so that was that was my grandfather the the the sound quality on that's pretty rough. I'm sorry
+He he recorded that on an old tape recorder with no mic
+On a very cheap cassette outside so
+It's so it is what it is it's pretty it's pretty cool
+So what I'm gonna do this episode I'm gonna talk about home brew
+But I'm not talking about applications. I'm talking about beer and I know a lot of people
+Think about doing home brew from time to time, especially if you're you know beer lover
+It's gonna cross your mind at some point
+And there's a lot of information out there on on home brewing and there's a lot of
+A lot of equipment out there for it and I think the biggest hurdle most people have when they they think about
+Home brewing their own beer is
+You see all this equipment. It's a very expensive and
+A lot of people if they decide to test the waters they wind up buying a
+One of these inexpensive little like mr. Beer type kits or they get one for Christmas and
+So if you look online some of the opinions of the of the
+Mr. Beer kids aren't you know, they're all over the place some people say they're fine some people say they're horrible
+What I wanted to do is just to share some tips
+To get the most out of one of these inexpensive entry-level kits
+Because it is a good way to find out if it's something you want to do or not if it's something you want to invest in
+You know better equipment or
+You know better ingredients and stuff and actually get into or you know if you just want to
+Continue using the mr. Beer kids extremely easy to use
+But you know, you're not gonna get the full home brew experience with it
+But it will it's good for us for beginner. It's a good way to kind of learn how to go through the motions
+But there's a few things that
+I've noticed that when people get bad results out of it. It's usually
+Usually it's one of three things that they have
+They're actually I guess four things that they have
+They've overlooked
+And the
+So I want I want to go over those real quick
+So you if you're in that boat and you decided to
+To try it out. Maybe you'll get a little bit better results
+Save you the trouble and frustration of having to do all this research on your own like I did
+so
+the first thing is
+If you with the kit or even the the refills
+They will come with a little pack of I think it's called no rent sanitizer
+And you will want to use that you will want to use that on anything that's going to touch your beer
+the
+The pot that you're gonna
+Cook the ward in
+any spoons spatulas
+Inside the fermenter the bottles anything that's going to come in contact with your beer
+You're gonna want to make sure you use that no rent sanitizer on
+That's very important because
+uh
+If if foreign particles get in there
+It's not going to
+It's not going to poison your beer, but it's going to most likely make it skunky if you've never had skunky beer
+Count your blessings
+It's there's a reason why they say it's it's skunky beer. It really it's not a pleasant aroma
+um
+So use the sanitizer
+You know
+Be meticulous
+Sanitize everything
+The second thing is
+water
+I forget what is something like 85% of of beer's water
+The better water the the better quality water that you use is going to render a higher quality product in the end
+so
+Don't just
+Fill it up with that nasty stuff that comes out of your tap
+If you guys overseas probably you may not have this problem here in the US our tap water is nasty and
+Just don't use tap water if you have access to a natural spring that has
+You know good water or a natural source of good fresh water
+That that works really well if not and you have to go out and buy water by spring water don't buy distilled water
+um spring water is probably your best bit
+If you have a favorite brand of spring water or something or if you have one of those um
+Those pictures with the filter in it
+um, you know
+You can filter your tap water and it'll work okay. I've seen some people do that
+um
+Just make sure you use you know good quality water
+I think a lot of people who wind up with really nasty beer wind up using just water out of the tap
+They think that's good enough. It'll be fine and it's not
+um
+The third thing is
+Temperature
+um
+So the the beer will ferment at uh, you know, it's as bad
+I don't remember what the optimal temperature is there's a range it's fine
+Whatever they say in the instructions is fine, but just you want to make sure that you know you don't
+Store the fermenter when you're letting the water ferment
+In some place it's really hot or really cold or the temperature goes up and down a lot
+um
+Excuse me
+It needs to be uh fairly stable temperature and um
+And you should be fine
+Uh, and the last thing is is patience um
+One of the things that the instructions in in these cheap kids the particularly the mr. Beer kid. I know says this
+uh
+They they say you can ferment in the fermenter for a week and then condition in the bottle for a week
+And then you can drink your beer and i'm here to tell you that that is complete fiction
+Um don't do it. It's
+You're not going to be pleased with what you wind up with um
+Let it set in the fermenter for two weeks
+Uh, if it sits in there for three, it's not going to hurt it
+um
+I've let some go over i've let a couple batches go over to three weeks um and then when you bottle it
+You're going to want to let the let it set in the bottles
+This this process is called conditioning you let it set in the the bottles for i would let it set for a couple of weeks
+And uh then you can stick them in the fridge and get them cold and drink them
+um
+Because that that extra time is
+Just trust me. Just do it. Don't don't do the two-week thing. That's going to you're going to wind up with something nasty
+Some swill it you don't want
+Uh, that's another place where that's very common for people to uh go wrong their first time trying to home brew
+um
+I don't even know why they put that in the instructions. That's just crazy
+um
+So uh
+Those are really the four big ones
+sanitize good water
+stable temperature and and give it enough time to work. It's magic
+uh, there's a few other little tips
+um
+Just on the tail end of this
+I want to talk about one is uh yeast
+So if you if you buy one of these inexpensive kits or you buy refill for it
+It's going to come with a little pack of yeast
+and that yeast uh
+I've seen humbers on forums and stuff talk about how horrible it is and that you're better off
+um
+Investing a couple extra dollars in getting some premium yeast uh that it it enhances the flavor profile and all this stuff
+I've never had bad luck with the yeast that comes with
+the kits
+so
+I don't know
+If you want to experiment with that you buy all means go ahead
+I'm never really had an issue with the the yeast it comes with
+Uh, I think the big thing is like I said giving it enough time to to work its magic and making sure the temperature is stable
+um
+They also sell
+A little thing
+It's called yeast nutrient and you can buy like a pound bag of it. It's pretty cheap
+I forget how much it is you can get it either from home brew supplier or they sell it on amazon
+um and you can add some of that
+uh at the beginning of the fermentation process and it it helps to keep the yeast healthy and
+Doing its thing
+um
+I did try some of it. It seemed that it worked okay. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you if it if it actually did anything
+um
+Amazing or not
+um
+But you can do that too if you want
+um
+I also want to talk about a few differences in
+Beer that you buy in the store versus beer that you brew yourself at home
+so
+um
+There's a few processes that beer
+Undergoes when you buy it in the store that you actually will not be doing or you will be doing differently in a home brew situation
+So when you buy beer in the store it's usually it has been filtered and has been pasturized
+You're probably not going to do that in a home brew situation. It's okay. It's not going to hurt you
+um
+We've been making beer
+Without filtering or pasturizing it for several thousand years now um
+The uh
+I actually to be honest like it better when it's not filtered or pasturized it it's it's it's definitely different um
+You'll be able to taste the difference when you when you drink your own beer that you've made the first time
+I can't I don't know it it is better than the stuff in the store. I think
+Um, that's an opinion of mine
+You know your your mileage may vary
+um the other thing is is
+carbonation
+So when you buy beer in the store
+it's
+Force carbonated by injecting CO2 in it
+um
+The same way they do soda or any other carbonated beverage
+Um, and then it's kept in pressurized containers until it's consumed
+um
+With home brew you can actually buy the equipment to do that
+Um, there's really not much of a reason to most humbers what they do and what you'll be doing if you're just
+You know getting started and just trying this out is when you go to bottle it
+You're going to put some sugar in each of the bottles before you
+drain the firm inner into the bottles
+And that sugar is called priming sugar and what it does is it reactivates the yeast inside the beer and
+It's not a lot just a little and it will create a little more alcohol
+Not a significant amount, but what it also does is creates it releases CO2
+And it does this naturally
+So this is called natural carbonation and it it's a different
+I guess body is the word I'm looking for it
+It's going to be differently body than beer you buy in the store and
+The carbonation natural carbonation is a little bit different. I've noticed
+Uh, when you pour it if you pour it into a mug or something
+um
+It's going to get a really big foam head on it, but it'll dissipate quicker than what you get
+In the you know in store bobbeer
+um
+And I think that's about it
+If you're uh if you're on the fence, it's you know home brew is pretty fun
+It's it's legal to do in the States. That's another thing of
+I don't know why but people seem to think this is illegal
+You can legally brew I think it's
+200 gallons per calendar year for personal use now you can't sell it you have to have a liquor license to sell
+You can give it to your family and friends. Uh, I usually just drink mine
+um
+But
+There you go if you if you've ever thought about if you're wondering it's not
+terribly hard
+Uh, and I think the kids are pretty inexpensive now if you want to give it a shot
+I would recommend going ahead doing it and if you have any uh questions
+um
+About it, you know, you can
+Leave a comment or shoot me email or something
+I will do my best to answer your questions on that front
+And uh, that's about it for me today. Thanks for listening
+and
+I haven't enjoyed your beer
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