Living Proof

This is an episode of the Living Proof Brew Cast.

In the intro, John and I discussed why we’ve been a bit busy these last couple of weeks. In addition to attending Balticon, John went to the Steampunk World’s Fair the weekend before and I’ll be headed to OpenGov Camp and PDF in New York in the next couple of days. To take our minds off this hectic fortnight, we poured out a couple of beers. I had the Great Lakes Brewing Company’s Commodore Perry IPA. We tried most of the rest of the Great Lakes brews except this one previously. John enjoyed a Victory St. Victorious. It was a new brew from a brewery whose beers we’ve had before and hold in good esteem. We close out the intro dsicussing our experiences of Balticon a little bit, including the home brew panel on which we participated. The additional panelist I mentioned was Michael deLuca of Small Beer Press.

We received some listener feedback from Natalie, a regular contributor to The Secret Lair among other things. She had a couple of questions about whether we’ve published our recipes and if we are extract or all grain brewers. She asked after a particular Dogfish Head, the Black and Blue (which we compare to the Red and White) and the Koko Brown from Kona. John has had other Konas, the Pipeline Porter and the Fire Rock Pale Ale. We’ll keep an eye out for the Koko as we haven’t seen it yet.

Our main segment was a One for All we recorded at Balticon with Nathan Lowell. John and I are huge fans of the Trader’s Tales, from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. The first three books of the series are available from Amazon in print and Kindle editions. This series as well as Nathan’s other books are also available for free at Podiobooks where he has lent his voice not only to his own works but to a few other others as well.

We had two Crispin ciders to choose from. We may return to The Saint with Nathan but selected the Lansdowne to try. As the conversation wound on, we got some fantastic insights into Nathan’s past that very much informs his writing and his process. We chatted a bit about Ravenwood and his experiences of NaNoWriMo, especially as they relate to the speed at which he produces his initial drafts.

In our final thoughts, we mentioned Podiobooks again. We also give a brewing update on the beer we helped Chris Miller brew and our latest effort, Our Nation’s Attic, an American Pale Ale. We are making this beer as part of an open source beer fellowship. It was inspired by a beer we’ve discussed previously.

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