BeerSmith Home and Beer Brewing Podcast
Hosted by Brad Smith · Brad Smith and Friends
4.5from 487 ratings
- 350
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 487
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About BeerSmith Home and Beer Brewing Podcast
Home Brewing and How to Brew Podcast for Beer Brewers
- Publisher
- Brad Smith and Friends
- Category
- arts · education · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Oct 2010
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
50 of 350 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Golden Age of UK Brewing with Ron Pattinson – BeerSmith Podcast #351
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Should I Start a Brewery Now with Jamil Zainasheff – BeerSmith Podcast #350
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Your Tasting Brain with Randy Mosher – BeerSmith Podcast #349
Inside a recent episode
The Golden Age of UK Brewing with Ron Pattinson – BeerSmith Podcast #351
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a very important change in the system of taxation. So what you had between 1830 and 1880 was there was no tax at all on beer. The only tax was on malt and hops. And because of this, there was effectively a Reinheitsgebot in Britain. So brewers could only use malt, hops, sugar, water, and yeast. And the sugar they used, they had to pay a duty on it. And it makes sense. If you're getting your tax on the ingredients, then you want the brewers to use the ingredients that are being taxed. And using anything that wasn't malt was effectively dodging tax. And so there were very severe penalties for it. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on BeerSmith Home and Beer Brewing Podcast
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- Ron Pattinson
- Jamil Zainasheff
- Randy Mosher
- Jeff Bloem
- Mitch Steele
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 2,766,856
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 411 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 76 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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Brad Smith host the show. Published by Brad Smith and Friends.
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