This mead recipe is for a Norwegian-inspired juniper mead featuring meadowsweet (meadwort) and fermented with Selland kveik culture. It comes to us by way of master meadmaker Steve Fletty, who is of Norwegian heritage. The unique juniper-steeped water creates a very wonderful piney, fruity, base for the mead. (You can see a similar juniper steep
We’re starting the new year with a renewed interest in smoked beers and starting a series of smokey episodes by going all-in with a 100% alderwood smoked beer. Lawton Boone and Jackson Stucker sent us their Stjørdal-Style Farmhouse Ale, brewed with alderwood-smoked malt from Sugar Creek Malt Company, and it absolutely brew our minds! Join
Roar Sandodden’s såinnhus. Skatval, Stjørdal, Norway. The malt for this traditional Norwegian farmhouse is dried over alderwood smoke in a såinnhus similar to this. (Photo: Lars Marius Garshol) Photo & Recipe Reprinted with permission from Historical Brewing Techniques: The Lost Art of Farmhouse Brewing by Lar Marius Garshol (2020, Brewers Publications) Jørund’s stjørdalsøl won the Norwegian
