You've been hearing us talk about Imperial yeast for a while now, and that's because we absolutely love this stuff.

With 200 billion cells in each Pitchrite pouch, we rarely even need to make starters these days.

Unfortunately, not everybody has the access to Imperial yeast, those of us out here on the West Coast do,

because they're based out of Portland, Oregon. But things are about to change. Imperial yeast is

excited to announce the opening of their East Coast location, which is huge for those who want

the freshest yeast possible with the best pitch rates, but brew on the other side of the country.

They're going to start by offering their four most popular strains, A38 Juice, A07 Flagship,

L13 Global, and Geo3D are with a goal of providing their full lineup of yeast by mid-2021.

So start your planning now at ImperialEast.com.

For most people interested in trying their hand brewing their own beer, the first step involves

picking up a starter kit that often includes the ingredients for an initial batch, which almost

always relies on malt extract. Rather than acquiring the necessary gear and spending the time

going through the process of an all-grain mash, brewing with extract can be done by pretty much

anyone with a decent sized kettle and a stove top. Of course, there are those who are convinced

malt extracts in part their own unique flavor for better or for worse when compared to beer's

brewed using all-grain methods. You're listening to the Briloscopy podcast. I'm your host, Marshall

Shott, and joining me on this episode to discuss the differences between malt extract and all-grain

methods as it relates specifically to stout is contributor Kate Job. Yeah, the whole all-grain versus

extract, which was a really popular question a number of years ago. I don't know that it's so much

of a question now, but it was always that can I make as good of a beer or better using extract?

And people always talked about it, but it was the multi-beers that people were saying like,

oh yeah, if you add extracts in like a stout or a dark beer where malt is shining,

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