2-1-22 Ty Wheeler – TK and Drinks

2-1-22 Tonight we're hanging with Ty Wheeler, mead maker, and host of the 'TK and Drinks' video podcast.

Ty is a denizen of Arizona, and is a dad of two boys and purchasing agent in his day life. By night, he's a podcaster and is working on mead distribution. At the beginning of COVID, he got laid off and decided to make a career in the mead industry.

Ty got into mead a few years back after re-connecting with a high school friend and former roommate, Jon Oppegaard of Oppegaard Meadery in Washington. He joined the Oppegaard Viking club, and started making regular purchases and visiting the local meaderies around him in Arizona.

Ty hosts his TK and Drinks channel, and it's his mead advocacy venue. He started it to become a mead reviewer, and hone his skills to become a competition mead judge. and along the way it morphed into doing interviews and homebrewing/meadmaking videos as well. And now it's lead to doing mead distribution in Arizona.

Join us to talk mead, meaderies, finding and distributing and whatever else we wander into at 9PM ET tonight!

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Upcoming Shows

February 15 - Teejay Kline - meadmaker and homebrewer, the Domras Cup
March 1 - Shawn Harris - Walkele Honey in Hawaii
March 15 - Ian Rushing - Honey and Hops Brewworks

Show links and notes

Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff
The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff

Upcoming Events

Feb 3 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Temecula Homebrewer Night
Feb 6 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - CLAWS event - raptor rescue
Feb 7 - SE Michigan Pink Boots Society, Ann Arbor, MI - All About Mead with Bløm Meadworks
Feb 10 - WildFlyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Book club and mead
Feb 11 - Kutik's Everything Bees, Oxford, NY - Mead Making Extravaganza
Feb 11 - KVLT Mead, Tacoma, WA - SAFEWORD - a Kinky Queer Comedy Show
Feb 12 - Planet Bee Honey Farm and Honeymoon Meadery, BC, Canada - Meant to Bee Virtual Cheese, Mead and Honey Tasting Experience
Feb 14 - Kinsale Mead, Ireland - Valentines Online Mead Talk 'Bee Mine'
Feb 16 - Clear Skies Meadery, Gaithersburg, MD - Mind, Body and Mead Tasting Yoga
Feb 17 - Kinsale Mead, Ireland - Online Mead Tasting (get  your kits ahead)
Feb 24 - Honeygirl Meadery, Durham, NC - Virtual Mead Tasting
Feb 24-26 - European Mead Makers Association - Mead Madness Cup and EMMCon in Warszawa, Poland
Feb 25 - American Mead Makers Association - Mead Matters Tasting with Prairie Rose Meadery
Feb 26 - Texas Mead Association, La Grange, TX - Texas Mead Fest
Feb 26 - Glass Jug Beer Lab, Durham, NC - Cider and Mead Tasting
Feb 26 - Temple Cellars, Singapore - Gosnell's Mead Tasting
Feb 26 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Live Music
Feb 26 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Viking Night - Mead, Hard Cider, Dinner and a Viking Drinking Horn

You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com