fermentation Archives | Page 3 of 9

Better Judge a Mead | Tom Repas

August 20, 2021chopandbrewEPISODESadvice, advice for judging mead, beekeeping, better judge a mead, BJCP, canyon rim honey bees, chop and brew, fermentation, homebrew, homebrewing, honey, honey wine, honeywine, how to judge mead, how to make mead, interview, josh holbrook, judging mead, mara ume, mead, mead judge, mead makers, mead making, pyment, tips, tom repas, what is mead, zen bee meadery

In Part Four of the Better Judge of Mead video interview series, Josh Holbrook talks all things mead judging with Tom Repas. Tom has a long list of achievements on his mead resume including two-time Best of Show winner at Mazer Cup, and winner of the AMMA National Mead Maker of the Year and AMMA

Rauchgraf (Smoked Beer/Hard Cider Hybrid) Homebrew Recipe

January 29, 2021chopandbrewRECIPESBIAB, brew in a bag, fermentation, fictional beverages, graf, graff, hard apple cider, hard cider, homebrew, homebrewing, hybrid, smoked graf, the dark tower

This recipe is for the rauchgraf (smoked beer/hard cider hybrid) as seen brewed, blended and fermented in Chop & Brew Episode 123. While I used an orchard fresh apple cider blend of Cortland, Haralson and SweeTango, I believe you could make this using store-bought cider as long as it doesn’t have any preservatives in it,

Spruce Rice Lager Homebrew Recipe

April 7, 2020chopandbrewRECIPESfermentation, flaked rice, homebrew, kveik, Lager, OSLO kveik, pre-prohibition, rice lager, spruce tips

Spruce Rice Lager Homebrew Recipe This crispy beer comes to us by way of Paul Illa. He provided the recipe and introduction below. You can ask Paul questions and follow his brewing adventures on Twitter and Instagram. The recipe was born out of a couple of different ideas. First, was the jasmine rice. I had