From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

Coming up on this episode, we'll talk with Christopher Hamilton from Hillsdale's chemistry department,

Alan Sears and Craig Oest and the co-authors of the new book, The Soul of an American President,

Jordan Wales, assistant professor of theology talking artificial intelligence,

and portions of a lecture from Trent England at Hillsdale Kirby Center in Washington, D.C.

Join now by Dr. Christopher Hamilton, Professor of Chemistry here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Hamilton,

thanks for joining us. You're very welcome. It's great to be here. As the summer rolls on across

the country, many of you might be out and about enjoying parties or get-togethers with an alcoholic beverage.

And, well, that's where Dr. Hamilton comes in here.

Dr. Hamilton is a well-known home brewer around the area and the resident beer expert here on the Hillsdale College campus.

So we talk with him today about beer.

Talk hops, IBIUs. First, though, how did you get into home brewing? What's appealing about

that for you? So what I enjoy about home brewing is one, well, I enjoy beer, but two, you know,

I'm a biochemist and by training and there's so much biochemistry

involved in beer and the whole beer making process. You know, the malt that we use, the way it's

converted to sugars to make beer is enzymes that are doing that job. And so I actually brewed a batch

of beer last night. And, you know, doing the mash, you know, heating the water up, it extracts the enzymes,

it breaks down the start, and the enzymes start breaking on the starches.

And you get this kind of flowery looking thing turns to this sweet, sugary, you know,

beautiful concoction that, you know, you then boil and add hops too.

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