Chip Walton is the producer and host of Chop & Brew, a web show about homebrewing, craft beer, and cooking. His day job is that of digital content producer at Northern Brewer Homebrew Supply for the second time in ten years. During his first tour of duty at Northern Brewer, he co-created and produced the popular Brewing TV webshow. Chip is a former member of the AHA Governing Committee and a BJCP Certified judge. Over the past decade, when he wasn’t working at Northern Brewer, he managed social media and digital projects for both Summit Brewing Company and The Splendid Table radio show and podcast… all while keeping the wheels rolling on Chop & Brew.
We missed segment 2 this week, the MacGyver segment, and JD promises he’ll put it in next week’s show! We simply had too much fun with Chip in the first segment!
We did manage to wrap the show with a few questions from the Social Club however!
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Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
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Medal winning home brewer Matt Weide joins us this episode. A regular here at the house, Matt brings us up to date on his projects and how the pandemic has affected his home brewing. We also get into a nutrient discussion about step feeding, when is it used, and do we stick to a step feeding regimen. Also, we had a question from an avid listener, Tyler Cott, he heard on an earlier show how Ryan was cold steeping his dark grains for a braggot and wanted to know more, Ryan also runs through his 3 variants of the Ryanbraggot.
You can now listen to The Mead House Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music. Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Get the apps here for your listening pleasure on Breaker Podcasts!
Wrapping up our 6 week run with discussions and interviews on honeybeer, this episode we hook up with a long time friend and supporter of the show, Ash Fischbein, owner of Sap House Meadery and Hobb’s Brewing Company in New Hampshire. Hobb’s has been brewing a honeybeer called Wannabee and we’ll talk to Ash about what his influence was foro this honeybeer as well as how they incorporate it into the wort for the best character. Also, we can’t let him get away without a few updates from Sap House Meadery, so get your paper and pen out, prepare to take notes, Ash will drop nuggets, lots of them! We’ll be on 2 weeks hiatus, so don’t miss the next podcast on March 30th! See you then!
You can now listen to The Mead House Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music. Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
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This episode we talk to Jon Kielty, Head Brewer for BIG aLICe Brewing Company in Queens, New York, Starting off brewing one-off brews, they quickly found their niche with awesome flavors and a brewing philosophy that includes using local products from sustainable sources. “As a licensed New York State farm brewery, our beers support local and state agriculture. We partner with state hop farmers and maltsters to source ingredients, and collaborate with local Queens businesses for specialty ingredients such as cold brew coffee, donuts, honey, and beyond. ” In segment 2, maybe it’s because St Paddy’s day is in a couple weeks and the Shamrock shake is back, but there are a lot of questions about mint on the socials this week. We’ll discuss how to use mint, what flavor combinations might work and encourage our listeners to send us your recipe for a possible spot on the show. And as usual, we wrap with the Social Club, where we try and answer questions with no formal expertise other than what we’ve experienced in our own brewhouse!
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You can now listen to The Mead House Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music. Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
One off batches – this is the holdover from last week. We often hear about making sure you can repeat batches and to get good at brewing you need to be able to make consistent replicateable batches. How do you approach batches when they are going to be one-off, either because of special ingredients or just desire to always make something different. Raw Ale – We hear a lot about the desire to have more mouthfeel in low ABV meads. Raw Ales might be a good way to get more mouthfeel. Here’s a couple related articles – Article 1, Article 2.
You can now listen to The Mead House Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music. Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Shawn Adams began his brewing journey 20 years ago. What started as a thirst for simply trying new craft beer has turned into creating quality craft beer of his own. He has committed himself to becoming a master brewer and thrives on the creative process involved in brewing great beer. He is a Certified Beer Judge, a member of the Master Brewers of the American’s and has traveled across the country to participate in competitions. As Head Brewer at Akyonm Brewing he has over won 18 medals at competitions around the US including beers brewed with honey.
You can now listen to The Mead House Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music. Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Ryan Richards is the Co-Founder and Production/Distribution Manager at Roy-Pitz Brewing Company, Chambersburg PA. Ryan studied Business Management at West Chester University near Philadelphia, PA earning a bachelor’s degree. During the time at school Ryan and Co-Founder Jesse Rotz honed and tweaked a business plan to start a craft brewery in their hometown of Chambersburg Pa. There’s much more to this story that our co-host Ryan will elude to. In the second segment, Improving head retention and body without tasting like grain, something carbonated mead makers are puzzled with at times, Ryan and Jeff explore the addition of grains to improve head retention, and finall, we wrap the show with the Social Club.
Does anybody know where you can listen to the Mead House podcast? How about on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music? Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
All the way from an 18 acre farm in the frigid East coast of Maine, Mike Fava, and award-winning accomplished brewer from Oxbow Brewing stops by the house to talk honey beers and barrel fermenting sours. Now, if you’re into braggots like we are, listen to Mike as he describes his brewing and bottling process on a few of his honey beers, you should pick up a few nuggets here and there! To stop the ferment or not to stop, that’s the question for segment 2. This question gets asked a lot, has been talked about a lot, and Jeff leads us through a discussion as to if it’s a good idea or not. We wrap the show as always with the Social Club, had a great many good topics and we’ll pick up next week where we left off.
Does anybody know where you can listen to the Mead House podcast? How about on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music? Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
In this episode, Jeff reviews the Quick Mead recipes in The Elder Scrolls cookbook from a popular game, The Elder Scrolls, an old world fantasy style series of action role-playing video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Then, we double up on Social Club questions as we wrap up show number 6 of our schedule. We’ll be on hiatus for our regular 2 weeks off, then back in the studio on February 2nd.
The Elder Scrolls cookbook can be found on Amazon, just click on the image.
Does anybody know where you can listen to the Mead House podcast? How about on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music? Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
In this episode, ever consider an all fruit mead? We mean, ALL fruit? Whole fruits, honey and yeast? We’ll give it a go in segment one, along with any fruits you wouldn’t use? And then, as promised a couple weeks ago, (yeah, we missed the mark last week), a Social Club double header. Lots of questions from our listeners including, why mead? Why do you guys make mead? Why do you like it more than beer, wine, cider, etc.?
Does anybody know where you can listen to the Mead House podcast? How about on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and now on Amazon Music? Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Chip Walton is the producer and host of Chop & Brew, a web show about homebrewing, craft beer, and cooking. His day job is that of digital content producer at Northern Brewer Homebrew Supply for the second time in ten years. During his first tour of duty at Northern Brewer, he co-created and produced the popular Brewing TV webshow. Chip is a former member of the AHA Governing Committee and a BJCP Certified judge. Over the past decade, when he wasn’t working at Northern Brewer, he managed social media and digital projects for both Summit Brewing Company and The Splendid Table radio show and podcast… all while keeping the wheels rolling on Chop & Brew.
Be sure and check out Chop & Brew and catch the latest episodes. Subscribe to his channel on YouTube.
Medal winning home brewer Matt Weide joins us this episode. A regular here at the house, Matt brings us up to date on his projects and how the pandemic has affected his home brewing. We also get into a nutrient discussion about step feeding, when is it used, and do we stick to a step feeding regimen. Also, we had a question from an avid listener, Tyler Cott, he heard on an earlier show how Ryan was cold steeping his dark grains for a braggot and wanted to know more, Ryan also runs through his 3 variants of the Ryanbraggot.
Wrapping up our 6 week run with discussions and interviews on honeybeer, this episode we hook up with a long time friend and supporter of the show, Ash Fischbein, owner of 
This episode we talk to Jon Kielty, Head Brewer for 
One off batches – this is the holdover from last week. We often hear about making sure you can repeat batches and to get good at brewing you need to be able to make consistent replicateable batches. How do you approach batches when they are going to be one-off, either because of special ingredients or just desire to always make something different. Raw Ale – We hear a lot about the desire to have more mouthfeel in low ABV meads. Raw Ales might be a good way to get more mouthfeel. Here’s a couple related articles – 
Shawn Adams began his brewing journey 20 years ago. What started as a thirst for simply trying new craft beer has turned into creating quality craft beer of his own. He has committed himself to becoming a master brewer and thrives on the creative process involved in brewing great beer. He is a Certified Beer Judge, a member of the Master Brewers of the American’s and has traveled across the country to participate in competitions. As Head Brewer at 
Ryan Richards is the Co-Founder and Production/Distribution Manager at 
All the way from an 18 acre farm in the frigid East coast of Maine, Mike Fava, and award-winning accomplished brewer from 
In this episode, Jeff reviews the Quick Mead recipes in T
In this episode, ever consider an all fruit mead? We mean, ALL fruit? Whole fruits, honey and yeast? We’ll give it a go in segment one, along with any fruits you wouldn’t use? And then, as promised a couple weeks ago, (yeah, we missed the mark last week), a Social Club double header. Lots of questions from our listeners including, why mead? Why do you guys make mead? Why do you like it more than beer, wine, cider, etc.?