Chop & Brew – Episode 48: Meet the Brewer – Benjamin Valentine

  En route to Florida from Minnesota with his family, Bryon Adams stops by the Tennessee home of C&B fan and friend Benjamin Valentine. The guys do a quick tasting notes session on a beer that Benjamin has been sitting on for a while – a split batch fermented with wine yeast and brett. [Original

Sit-On Beer Homebrew Recipe

This is the recipe for the beer that Bryon Adams and Benjamin Valentine tasted and discussed in Chop & Brew – Episode 48. Benjamin and his co-brewery Make Mirse took some inspiration for this split batch experiment from two articles and a recipe at Bear Flavored Ales Homebrew & Beer Blog (see article links at

Pig Out Smoked Blonde Ale Homebrew Recipe

Brewed at Bryon Adams’ Pig Out BBQ Competition & Homebrew Festival, Brew In A Bag style! It was a pretty hectic day, so I didn’t take a lot of notes… or I lost them either way. Piecing this together from memory and social media posts. OG: 1.038 FG: 1.007 ABV: 4.1% IBU: ?? Malts 6