In Episode 8 of Brewnolgy, Dean and Jason tackle a listener request to examine the difference between Traditional Oktoberfest and Modern Oktoberfest. For the style of the episode they take a look at schwarzbier. And for the homebrewing technical topic they look at the common ways to chill your homebrew and benefits of each method.

Brewnology: The Podcast - Brewnology: Episode 8 - Modern Oktoberfest-Schwarzbier-Chilling Wort

This is the inaugural episode of Brewnology: The Fusion of Beer and Knowledge. In this first episode, you are introduced to the hosts, Dean Wiensch and Jason Johnson. The focus of this series is how to evaluate your homebrew for troubleshooting and recipe formulation purposes. Topics of this episode include introductions to the hosts, the difference between evaluation and enjoying a beer, a rough evaluation of an aged English Barleywine, and DMS. The on-air evaluation process is quite different from what we are used to and it shows in this first episode, we are learning from our mistakes and will continue to improve.

Brewnology: The Podcast - Brewnology: Episode 1 Introductions/Basics of Evaluation/English Barleywine/DMS

In this episode we cover some last minute judging exam tips before Dean heads off to take the BJCP judging exam. We also take a look at category 27A in the 2015 BJCP guidelines with Anderson Valley Gose, we also try to do the extract brewers some justice with water tips for the extract brewer.

Brewnology: The Podcast - Brewnology: Episode 4 - BJCP Judging Exam Tips-Anderson Valley Gose- Water for Extract Brewers

In this fifth episode we talk about the BJCP exams we took this past weekend. Dean took the Judging (Tasting) exam for the first time and Jason retook the written. We also cover the controversy that prompted the change to the spelling of our name, we felt we should cover that in a show. For our style discussion/taste along segment we cover the only authentic Alt style we could find in our area, Summit Sticke Alt. We finish things out by talking about acetaldehyde.