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

August 28, 2016chopandbrewEPISODESBenjamin Valentine, brett beer, brewing beer at home, bryon adams, chop & brew, chop and brew, experiemental brewing, fermenting with wine yeast, homebrewing, how to brew beer, pumpkin beer, sit-on beer, southern winter

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

August 28, 2016chopandbrewRECIPESBenjamin Valentine, brett beer, brewing beer at home, bryon adams, chop & brew, chop and brew, experiemental brewing, fermenting with wine yeast, homebrewing, how to brew beer, pumpkin beer, sit-on beer, southern winter

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

Chop & Brew – Episode 29: Bad Ass Barrelfied Imperial Porter

August 27, 2014chopandbrewEPISODESall-grain brewing, Bad Ass Brewery, Barrel, Barrel Aging, Barrel Conditioning, Black Swan Cooperage, brewing beer at home, brewing network, brewing tv, bryon adams, chip walton, chris paynes, homebrew, homebrewing, how to brew beer, How to Brew Imperial Porter, Imperial porter, McPullish, Woodinville Whiskey Company1 Comment

We head into Bryon Adams’ Bad Ass Brewery to discuss the brewing and barrel conditioning of an Imperial Porter in a Woodinville Rye Whiskey barrel. Our tasting notes discussion includes tips and techniques on barrel-conditioning (barrel-aging) and maintenance, last-minute yeast starters, and using the Wyeast Ringwood Ale yeast strain. [Original postdate: August 27, 2014] Related