We take a road trip to F.H. Steinbart Company, the oldest and longest continually operating homebrew shop in the U.S, to reflect on 100 years of homebrewing and brew up a special commemorative collaboration beer. We also join the Portland homebrewing community in mourning the loss of store owner John DeBenedetti, who passed away on
It’s a unique springtime treat as Chip is joined by Steve Fletty to sample his lilac mead, an orange blossom traditional mead back sweetened with homemade lilac simple syrup. We see how the syrup and mead were made, and get tasting notes from the guys. Homemade Lilac Mead Recipe (includes Lilac Simple Syrup recipe) More
Lilac Mead Recipe This mead recipe comes to us from award-winning meadmaker Steve Fletty and combines a unique floral flavor of springtime with a traditional orange blossom mead using a lilac simple syrup to back sweeten the mead. For more tasting notes and some video of the process, see this Chop & Brew video. Thanks
