BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Beer & Brewing Happy New Year from The Brewing Network!

Hey kids,
Who's your favorite internet radio homebrewing show? The Brewing Network Show! <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue2.gif" alt="" /> It's a new year and The Brewing Network has made a resolution to become even better for 2006! Look for a redesigned web site, new shows, more great guests and lots and lots more hilarity and brewing information from the Brewcasters!

This week on The Brewing Network Show we will feature The Beach Chalet, a great San Francisco brewpub that sits right on Ocean Beach on the edge of Golden Gate Park. Listen as their brewmaster comes into the studio to discuss his beers, brewing techniques and what make them different from the competition. Our commercial tasting this week will Be Foster's Lager, in honor of all our Aussie mates who listen to the show. So grab an oil can and sample and critique Foster's along with the Brewcasters.

We hope you'll join us for our first Brewcast of the year this Sunday at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Plus, The Blues and Brews Show starts at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, so if you're brewing, or just relaxing this Sunday morning, tune in to The Brewing Network for great tunes to brew by. As always, The Brewing Network Show is live, commercial-free, funny and informative.

Don't live in the U.S. and want to know when the show airs live in your time zone? Go here for a great time zone converter:

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How does The Brewing Network "guarantee" that the required "streaming plug-in" is free of spyware or adware? I have had problems in the past with downloading plug-ins from the internet, and I am VERY cautious now - Anyone who has been plagued by a Trojan Horse or Virus or pop-ups because of accepting a plug-in from the internet would not even CONSIDER downloading a plug-in to listen to this.

Does anyone have an answer to this???

Dragonfly, I have zero technical association with The Brewing Network Show, so I can't answer your question directly. I can tell you from personal experience that I have not had, nor have I heard of anyone else having, any kind of trouble with the Abacast plug-in required to listen to the show. During each show, the site's chat room is very active with dozens of listeners discussing the show in real time. In 4 months of participating in that chat, I have not encountered a single user complaining that they picked up a virus, trojan horse or anything else. So while I cannot actually "guarantee" the integrity of the plug-in, I will personally vouch for it. The internet stream (and required plug-in) is provided by Abacast, which is a respected commercial entity.

I hope you will decide to check out the show. I believe you will like what you find.

Matt Peterson for The Brewing Network Show

And Dragonfly (and anyone else on the fence regarding the plug-in) you can always go the The Brewing Network homepage and simply download archived shows which are available as mp3 files.

http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com