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
On October 10, 2020 the world was invited to participate in the annual Norsk Kornølfestival, an event that works to celebrate and preserve the traditional brewing culture and methods of Norway. This year it was held virtually due to concerns of COVID-19. The silver lining of that situation is that it allowed interested people from
