GotMead Live Radio Show
249 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWeekly podcast discussing mead, mead making, meaderies and mead info from around the world
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4-27-21 Stian Krog – Mjøderiet – bringing back mead in Norway
April 27, 2021 15:53 - 2 hours - 128 MB4-27-21 This week on Gotmead Live we're going international! Our guest is Stian Krog, owner of Mjøderiet in Norway, the first meadery to bring back mead in that country. This episode is not live, we got together with Stian yesterday so he wouldn't be up at 3 am! Stian started brewing beer in 2011 and got curious about mead around the same time. He and Erlend Johnsen (now one of the Mjøderiet partners) made their first traditional in 2012 and increasingly made more and more batches during the...
4-13-21 Pierre Rodrigue – Making Mead and Wine in Canada
April 13, 2021 20:18 - 2 hours - 138 MB4-13-21 Tonight we're chatting with Pierre Rodrigue, a prolific wine and meadmaker living in Alberta, Canada. Pierre has been fermenting wine since 1985. His early batches consisted of kits, and fruits and berries. As there weren’t a lot of publications then and zero internet, he learned a lot by trial and error. Pierre began mead making in the fall of 2016, and has won several medals and Best of Show at Canada’s Mellarius Cup. His penchant for all juice meads is fairly well known on socia...
3-30-21 Cristoff Plizga and Scot Schaar – Polish mead and beyond
March 30, 2021 19:40 - 2 hours - 123 MB3-30-21 Tonight we're talking Polish mead, and all other things mead with Kris Plizga and Scot Schaar. Both of these gentlemen are accomplished mead makers, and both are pretty darn good Polish mead makers. Kris' mead adventure started many years ago while he was still living in his home country. At that time Poland was probably the only place on earth where mead was still produced by several companies and was available almost in every better supplied liquor store. After tasting many of them...
3-2-21 Clint Walker and Chase Cohagan – Texas Honey and Texas Mead
March 02, 2021 21:34 - 2 hours - 125 MB3-2-21 Tonight we're back on our regular schedule, and are happy to be talking with Clint Walker and Chase Cohagan, of Walker Honey Farm and Dancing Bee Winery. Clint Walker III is a third-generation beekeeper and the owner of Walker Honey Farm in Rogers, TX. In 2011, Walker Honey Farm opened Dancing Bee Winery as the mead making arm of the business. Walker Honey Farm was founded in 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression, when Clint Walker Sr. started with 150 hives. Over the years, the...
2-23-21 Dustin Deisher and Jeff Anderson – Bench Trials & Adjustments
February 23, 2021 20:40 - 3 hours - 169 MBTonight at 9PM ET, we'll be talking with Dustin Deisher and Jeff Anderson, award winning home meadmakers. The topic at hand is bench trials. In making mead, we do our fermentation, feed our yeast, and do our racking and stabilization. But once that's all done, the mead needs to be finished. And as anyone with more than a couple batches under their belt can tell you, yeast don't read the alcohol range info on the packets, and fermentations often end where you want to make adjustments after it...
2-2-21 Tom Repas – Mead in Secondary, Stabilizing, Backsweetening, Clarification, Adjuncts
February 02, 2021 20:14 - 2 hours - 123 MB2-2-21 Tonight at 9PM ET we'll be talking with Tom Repas. Tom has been on the show before, and we're having him back, as he's an absolute fountain of information! We're going to talk with Tom about mead, specifically mead in secondary. There is a lot that happens in secondary, like stabilization, clarification, backsweetening, adjuncts and adjustments. Tom is a Master Beekeeper and owner of Canyon Rim Honey Bees, providing bees and honey in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tom speaks on bee...
1-19-21 Margot Phelps and the Maidmakers – Ancient Fire Mead
January 19, 2021 19:09 - 2 hours - 122 MB1-19-21 Tonight at 9PM EST we're getting together with Margot Phelps and the Maidmakers at Ancient Fire Cider and Mead in Manchester, NH. The Maidmakers series began in Early 2020 and was the idea of the AF team which, with the exception of Jason, is made up entirely of strong, passionate and smart women. The idea was to get their team more involved in the process of making the products that they were serving in the taproom. The AF women came to work, and stayed to learn meadmaking and got ...
1-5-21 Evan Himes – Dutch Gold Honey
January 05, 2021 20:48 - 1 hour - 103 MB1-5-21 We survived 2020! Here's to hoping 2021 will see the world getting back to normal. We're starting this year with what else, honey! We have Evan Himes, who is with Dutch Gold Honey in Lancaster, PA. We'll be talking about things like COVID impacts on the honey market in 2020 vs 2021, the evolution of commercial beekeeping – Honey Labeling at retail, honey adulteration and testing, and things like local sourcing, honey crystallization and anything else we come across with questions fro...
12-1-20 Michelle Scandalis and Jeremy Kyncl, Hierophant Meadery – Metheglins, Part 2
December 01, 2020 19:54 - 2 hours - 137 MB12-1-20 Tonight at 9PM ET on GotMead Live, our last show of 2020, the dumpster fire of a year, we are happy to have Michelle Scandalis and Jeremy Kyncl, owners of Hierophant Meadery in Washington, with two locations on the Green Bluff loop in Mead, and a tasting room on Whidbey Island.
11-24-20 Sam Slaughter – the Mead Journey, Mead Cocktails and What He’s Discovered
November 24, 2020 19:52 - 1 hour - 104 MB11-24-20 Tonight at 9PM ET on GotMead Live, we'll be talking with Sam Slaughter, a food and drink writer who has also written books on cocktails, and is a ten year home meadmaker.
11-17-20 Metheglins (mead with spices) Part 1 with Amy Olsen and Josh Holbrook
November 17, 2020 19:33 - 2 hours - 135 MB11-17-20 Tonight at 9PM ET on GotMead Live, we'll be talking metheglins, (mead with spices), with multiple medal winning home meadmakers Amy Olsen and Josh Holbrook. We'll be exploring making metheglins, when and how to add spices, choosing your spices, flavor profiles and tips and tricks, as well as how to avoid problems.
11-3-20 Dan McNevin – Foraging Mead Ingredients and Making Weirdomels (Experimental)
November 03, 2020 19:59 - 2 hours - 133 MB11-3-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Dan McNevin. Dan is a home meadmaker with a penchant for foraging his mead ingredients and also for making weirdomels (technically known as experimental meads).
10-20-20 Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo – W A Meadworks – Expanding Production and Making Great Meads
October 20, 2020 19:45 - 2 hours - 141 MB10-20-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo, owners of W A Meadwerks on Long Island in New York. They bill themselves as 'two guys making mead'. But it's more than that. They bootstrapped a meadery out of almost nothing, and are rapidly growing their place, even with all the problems from being in the middle of COVID.
9-29-20 Adam Crockett – Haymaker Meadery – Oaking Mead
September 29, 2020 19:10 - 2 hours - 162 MB9-29-20 9-29-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we're meeting with Adam Crockett of Haymaker Meadery to talk about oaking meads. Over the last several shows, we've had a lot of folks asking about oaking meads, and so we're going to talk about that tonight. Adam has been experimenting with oaking for a long time, and gave a talk at MeadCon 2018 with Rocky Mountain Barrels on oak.
9-22-20 Keith Seiz and Alison Wuebbels – National Honey Board
September 22, 2020 20:32 - 2 hours - 121 MB9-22-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we're looking forward to talking with Keith Seiz and Alison Wuebbels with the National Honey Board. We'll be finding out what the Honey Board has been up to, and talking about their Honey20 Project, the Mead Crafters Competition (2nd year!), and the Honey Spirits Competition, as well as their other involvement with honey in craft beverages.
9-15-20 Brian Wing – Green Bench Brewing, Cody Lenz and Joe Leigh – Florida Mead
September 15, 2020 20:38 - 2 hours - 150 MB9-8-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we're bringing back Sergio, and we're going to turn him and Kevin loose on session meads. So we're going to talk *more* on session meads. Since it's a hot topic both for home and commercial mead makers, and as a mead making approach seems to be approaching one of the most popular styles, we're going to dig further into it.
9-8-20 Sergio Moutela Talks Sessions with Kevin Meintsma
September 08, 2020 21:05 - 3 hours - 184 MB9-8-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we're bringing back Sergio, and we're going to turn him and Kevin loose on session meads. So we're going to talk *more* on session meads. Since it's a hot topic both for home and commercial mead makers, and as a mead making approach seems to be approaching one of the most popular styles, we're going to dig further into it.
9-1-20 Susan Ruud – Midwest Mead and Running a Meadery in Time of COVID
September 01, 2020 21:32 - 2 hours - 160 MB9-1-20 Toinight at 9PM ET we're hanging out with Susan Ruud, owner of Prairie Rose Meadery in Fargo, ND. And we've guest host Kevin Meintsma on with us! We'll be talking on mead (of course), particularly spiced mead, as well as what it's been like running a meadery during COVID.
8-25-20 Petar Bakulic – Making Great Pyments
August 25, 2020 20:38 - 2 hours - 116 MB8-18-20 Pyments, mead made with grapes and/or grape juice, is a popular topic in meadmaking recently. There are endless possibilities in making pyments, and we've tried some really amazing ones. We're doing a dive into pyments over the next couple shows, and decided to bring in Peter Bakulic to talk about them. Pete has extensive experience in both winemaking and meadmaking.
8-18-20 Petar Bakulic – Winemaking for Meadmakers
August 18, 2020 20:01 - 1 hour - 110 MB8-18-20 Pyments, mead made with grapes and/or grape juice, is a popular topic in meadmaking recently. There are endless possibilities in making pyments, and we've tried some really amazing ones. We're doing a dive into pyments over the next couple shows, and decided to bring in Peter Bakulic to talk about them. Pete has extensive experience in both winemaking and meadmaking.
8-11-20 Billy Beltz, Eric Holden and Harold Gulbransen – Southern California Mead
August 11, 2020 21:25 - 2 hours - 135 MB8-11-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we are continuing our regional mead makers series and talking with Billy Beltz, Erick Holden and Harold Gulbransen, all in Southern California. Each is a very talented meadmaker, and we'll talking about (of course) meadmaking, and how they do things in SoCal.
8-4-20 Rob Ratliff, Mead Recipes Author and Kevin Meintsma on Session Meads
August 04, 2020 22:27 - 2 hours - 127 MB8-4-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we are going to talk more about session meads, which are the hottest thing in meadmaking these days. We'll be chatting with Rob Ratlff, author of "The Big Book of Mead Recipes" and "Let There Be Melomels", popular books of mead recipes. Rob's next book will be "Let There be Session Meads". We're also bringing in Kevin Meintsma, a very talented session mead maker. The conversation should be really good!
6-9-20 Carvin Wilson, Warren Earle and Allen Martin – Mead Styling in the Southwest
June 09, 2020 18:28 - 2 hours - 134 MB6-9-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we're continuing our series, bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and going to Arizona. We'll be talking with Carvin Wilson, Allen Martin and Warren Earle. These gentlemen are prominent in the southwest brewing scene, and bring some powerful mead making chops to the table.
6-2-20 Matt Weide, Adam Bystrom and Josh Holbrook – Midwest Mead Monsters Part 2
June 02, 2020 21:00 - 2 hours - 164 MB6-2-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we're continuing our series, bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and we're starting in the midwest, this is part 2. We'll be talking with Adam Bystrom, Josh Holbrook and Matt Weide. They are part of a number of talented meadmakers in Minnesota that are making some seriously amazing meads, and each of them is making some amazing award winning meads. We're going to be talking mead, how they got into making it, what they've learned and what they're ...
5-26-20 Kevin Meintsma, Steve Fletty and Josh Mahoney – Midwest Mead Monsters
May 26, 2020 23:00 - 3 hours - 172 MB5-26-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we're taking a different tack, we're bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and we're starting in the midwest. We'll be talking with Kevin Meintsma, Steve Fletty and Josh Mahoney. They are part of a meadmaking group in Minnesota that is making some seriously amazing meads, and each of them is an accomplished meadmaker. We're going to be talking mead, how they got into making it, what they've learned and what they're making now.
5-19-20 Tom Repas – Taking it to the Bees, Making Interesting Meads
May 19, 2020 20:40 - 2 hours - 156 MB5-19-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we'll be talking with Tom Repas, Master Beekeeper and owner of Canyon Rim Honey Bees, providing bees and honey in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tom speaks on beekeeping all over the country, and has presented several times at the AMMA MeadCon on both beekeeping and meadmaking. Tom has won a large number of awards for his mead as well. We'll be talking bees, breeding and hive management, and also about making great mead.
5-12-20 Aaron Schavey and Geoff Allen – Boneflower Craft Mead
May 12, 2020 20:21 - 2 hours - 114 MB5-12-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we'll be talking with Aaron Schavey and Geoff Allen, owners of Boneflower Craft Mead in 'the Region' in northwest Indiana. Aaron and Geoff have been making waves with their mead for a few years now, and formalized their mead making by opening Boneflower in 2018. Geoff and Aaron are a couple of guys and a hobby that turned serious...sort of. After years of participating in the craft beverage scene, an introduction to Mead started them in an entirely new direction.
4-28-20 Matt Weide – Alternative Sugars, Bochets, and Techniques
April 28, 2020 19:55 - 2 hours - 122 MB4-28-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Matt Weide, a long time homebrewer and meadmaker. We'll be chatting on interesting things including alternative sugars in mead (like inverts, maple syrup and the like) and how they can be used in fermentation, bochet tips and tricks, making rhubarb mead, playing with honeyberries, the AMMA Home Governing Committee elections and the Valkyries' Horn competition. Matt has been home brewing for over 20 years. He began making mead in 1998, but didn't ...
4-21-20 Kevin Meintsma – Making award winning mead
April 21, 2020 20:59 - 2 hours - 158 MB4-21-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Kevin Meintsma, a prolific and talented meadmaker who is quite humble about his very well made meads. Kevin has been making mead since 1995, his first one being with a very dark honey that he later learned was eastern buckwheat (it had also been sitting in the workshop for 12 years!). It also had cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and used champagne yeast. And no temp control or nutrients. That turned out, not surprisingly, poorly, lol. Kevin then...
4-14-20 Scott Schaar – Mead, Beer and Meadmaking
April 14, 2020 21:11 - 2 hours - 137 MB4-14-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Scott Schaar, head brewer at Crawford Brew Works and former distiller at Mississippi River Distilling Company. He is a BJCP beer and mead judge. Scot was the 2017 AHA Meadmaker of the Year (MMOTY) and shared the 2019 MMOTY award with Michael Wilcox and Carvin Wilson. He was the 2015 East Coast MMOTY; has won multiple mead, beer, and cider bests of show; and has had his recipes professionally made by Moonlight Meadery and Prairie Rose Meadery. Scot...
4-7-20 Ken Schramm – Making Mead, Estate Fruit, and How Mead has Changed
April 07, 2020 21:44 - 1 hour - 100 MB4-7-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're happy to have the opportunity to hang out with Ken Schramm, owner of Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, MI. If you're new to the mead world, you may not be familiar with Ken (I'm sure there are one or two of you, lol). Ken, oft referred to as 'The Godfather of Mead' and is the author of The Compleat Meadmaker, arguably the book that launched a mead making revolution. Many meadmakers learned a lot about mead and meadmaking from Ken and his book. “The Compleat Meadmaker...
3-31-20 Peter Bakulic – Talking Mead
March 31, 2020 21:04 - 2 hours - 123 MB3-31-20 We're back from a break that *should* have been because of MeadCon and Mazer Cup, but sadly we did not get to celebrate either of those events because of postponements. Make sure you're online or doing pickups to #buymead! We are tickled to have Pete Bakulic back tonight, it's been quite a while since we've been able to get him on the show. If you don't know of Pete, either you're new to the mead scene, or you've been hiding under a rock! Pete is President of the Mazer Cup Internati...
3-31-19 Peter Bakulic – Talking Mead
March 31, 2020 21:04 - 2 hours - 123 MB3-31-20 We're back from a break that *should* have been because of MeadCon and Mazer Cup, but sadly we did not get to celebrate either of those events because of postponements. Make sure you're online or doing pickups to #buymead! We are tickled to have Pete Bakulic back tonight, it's been quite a while since we've been able to get him on the show. If you don't know of Pete, either you're new to the mead scene, or you've been hiding under a rock! Pete is President of the Mazer Cup Internati...
3-3-20 Steve Patik – MeadCon speaker on Braggots (and other meadly things)
March 03, 2020 22:51 - 1 hour - 72 MB3-3-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Steve Patik, an accomplished and award winning mead maker who will be speaking at the AMMA MeadCon in two weeks on braggots, along with Andy Brewer from Locavore Beerworks. Steve discovered mead over Thanksgiving dinner in 2012, and a year later was making it. Since then, Steve has been making mead in unconventional ways, yet successful. Steve is a regular entrant in mead competitions all over the country, and he consistently does ...
2-25-20 Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo – MeadCon Speaker – W A Meadwerks – Meadery on a Shoestring
February 25, 2020 20:35 - 2 hours - 112 MB2-25-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo, owners of W A Meadwerks on Long Island in New York. These guys are truly passionate about their mead, and managed to open a meadery in a place that's pretty darn expensive, and do it on a shoestring. Roger will be speaking at MeadCon this year on how they managed to open their meadery with very little up front. W A Meadwerks started in Roger's basement in West Islip after being lucky enough to try comme...
2-18-20 C. Marina Marchese – MeadCon Speaker – Honey Evaluation and Sensory Analysis
February 18, 2020 09:27 - 2 hours - 118 MB2-18-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Marina Marchese, the Honey Sommelier. Marina will be speaking at MeadCon 2020 this year, talking about honey sensory analysis and dong a live honey tasting. Carla Marina Marchese is a member of the Italian National Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey, where she received her formal training as a honey sensory expert. Her book, The Honey Connoisseur co-authored with Kim Flottum (editor of Bee Culture Magazine) paralle...
2-4-20 Keith Seiz, MeadCon Speaker – National Honey Board and mead
February 04, 2020 13:21 - 1 hour - 108 MB2-4-20 Tonight at 9PM Eastern we're talking with Keith Seiz, who works with the National Honey Board, and he'll be speaking on Mead Perceptions; On Consumers and Mead Makers at the AMMA MeadCon in Broomfield, CO March 17-19. He'll be talking on whether consumer perceptions of mead match mead maker perceptions. The National Honey Board set out to find the answer to this question and more. This seminar will detail the findings of two surveys the National Honey Board Conducted with consumers a...
1-28-20 Laura Angotti, MeadCon Keynote – the history of mead and historic recipes
January 28, 2020 19:53 - 2 hours - 140 MB1-28-20 Tonight at 9PM we are tickled to have on the show Laura Angotti, keynote at the 2020 MeadCon, and author of "Wellcome Mead: 105 Mead Recipes from the 17th and 18th Century English Receipt Books at the Wellcome Library" and "Cider and Perry in Britain to 1700: A Collection of Material from Primary and Selected Secondary Sources". She is also the owner of the Mystery of Mead website, where she discusses mead in history. Laura Angotti has been making mead for over 25 years, focusing on ...
1-21-20 Tony Qualls – MeadCon Speaker – Big Berry Melomels and Manic Meadery
January 21, 2020 21:46 - 2 hours - 111 MB1-21-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Tony Qualls, owner of Manic Meadery and speaker at the 2020 MeadCon, where he'll be giving a seminar on Maximum Fruit: Big Berry Bombs and Other Melomels. Tony is not just a meadery owner, he's also a musician. He toured in the band Groovatron for 12 years, doing over 1500 shows in 12 years (makes me tired just thinking about all that travel!). Tony is a lifelong entrepreneur, having run a vinyl record company, painting company and a bunch of oth...
1-14-2020 Sergio Moutela – MeadCon speaker – What I Learned in 5 Years
January 14, 2020 21:16 - 2 hours - 145 MB1-14-2020 Tonight at 9PM EST we're kicking off our featuring of speakers at MeadCon, and opening with Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery and the president of the AMMA. Sergio opened Melovino just over 5 years ago, and during that time he's learned a ton about operating a meadery, making better mead and what people like in a mead. He's wrangled with his state to allow meaderies to even exist, and juggled the need for space to expand with the reality of how hard it can be to find an ide...
1-7-20 Happy New Year! Carvin Wilson on Mead Competitions and Judging, Mead Trends, Making Mead
January 07, 2020 19:40 - 2 hours - 110 MB1-7-20 We're back from our December break, and off with a bang! Join us at 9PM Eastern tonight for the first 2020 episode of GotMead Live. Tonight's guest is Carvin Wilson, mead maker, mead industry supporter, and owner of Carvin Software. If you haven't heard of Carvin, you're not hanging out with mead folk. Carvin, who lives near Phoenix, AZ, is a long time mead maker, started getting involved nationwide with the mead scene several years ago. Carvin makes incredibly well done mead. Like a...
11-26-19 Amy Olsen and Annie Zipser – Michigan Mead Alliance, making mead, and mead talk
November 26, 2019 23:05 - 2 hours - 125 MB11-26-19 Tonight we're talking with Annie Zipser and Amy Olsen, Annie and Amy are both award winning home mead makers, and are now involved with the Michigan Mead Coalition. The Michigan Mead Coalition is a group of meadmakers who are looking to create a shared environment where they can talk mead, share their skills, and even have shared equipment and supply buys. We'll be talking more about that in the show. We'll also talk meadmaking, things we've learned, and generally just geek out on m...
11-5-19 Mike Faul – Rabbits Foot Mead – peak honey, Irish mead and meadery IT
November 05, 2019 22:37 - 2 hours - 134 MB11-5-19 9PM EST Tonight we're talking with Mike Faul, owner of Rabbit's Foot Meadery in Sunnyvale, CA about several things. Mike has been in the mead industry for over 20 years, and has been a mead maker for much longer, having been involved in mead since the beginning of the resurgence of mead in the US. Mike is not just owner of one of the largest meaderies in the country, he's also an IT and automation geek, a student of honey in America, and an all-around pretty smart guy. And he's been ...
10-29-19 – Sergio Moutela – pyments, beer style meads, weirdomels and recipes
October 29, 2019 21:34 - 2 hours - 159 MB10-29-19 We're back after a break due to some scheduling conflicts. Tonight we're talking with Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery and President of the American Mead Makers Association. He is also the guy who created the TOSNA protocol for mead making which he hosts on Mead Made Right. And he's launched a mead podcast that is excellent. which you can listen to on the MMR website. You can tell Sergio has been up to a lot of mead stuff, and he never seems to slow down. We're not even sur...
10-8-19 Adam Crockett on oaking, barrels and making mead in Pét Nat style
October 08, 2019 21:33 - 2 hours - 119 MB10-8-19 We're talking tonight with Adam Crockett, owner of Haymaker Meadery. Before starting Haymaker in 2015, Adam worked in the barrel industry for 4 years selling barrels to breweries, wineries, and meaderies all over the US and Canada. He has worked with large breweries like Allagash and Jolly Pumpkin and small local breweries in every corner. He has worked directly with distilleries and wineries to provide the best barrels available. He has helped many breweries build up their barrel pr...
10-1-19 Ryan Carlson – Creating recipes to a flavor profile – part 2
October 01, 2019 20:29 - 2 hours - 160 MB10-1-19 - Tonight we're back in mead building mode again, and have Ryan back to talk about picking the yeast and honey and other ingredients to achieve specific flavor profiles. This is continuing from last week's discussion. Get your questions in to us! Post on Facebook or Twitter, or join us on the chat channel tonight! We all have the flavors and tastes we like, and it's different for everyone. Too much for one is not enough for another. Yeast and honey contribute a fair amount to what y...
9-24-19 Ryan Carlson – Creating recipes to a flavor profile
September 24, 2019 21:05 - 2 hours - 136 MB9-24-19 - Tonight we're back in mead building mode, and have Ryan back to talk about picking the yeast and honey and other ingredients to achieve specific flavor profiles. We all have the flavors and tastes we like, and it's different for everyone. Too much for one is not enough for another. Yeast and honey contribute a fair amount to what you end up with, and what you start with may not be where your mead finishes, flavor-wise. There are tons of ideas out there: fermenting temperatures, t...
9-17-19 Traci Kuhfuss and Amy Olsen – women in meadmaking and making great meads
September 17, 2019 21:21 - 2 hours - 141 MB9-17-19 9PM EST: Tonight we're talking with women who make mead. Award winning, bitching good meadmaking women. We're talking with Traci Kuhfuss and Amy Olsen. If you've been paying attention, these ladies are tearing it up out there with their meads. Traci Kuhfuss comes to us from Texas by way of Arizona and Hawaii. She’s been active as a homebrewer and mead maker for many years, participating in brew clubs and competitions in all the places she’s lived. Traci is a professional photographer...
9-3-19 Mateusz Blaszczyk and Krzysztof Jarek, Kings of Mead Competition and European Mead Makers Association Conference
September 03, 2019 18:17 - 1 hour - 89.8 MB9-3-19 Tonight we're winging our way to Poland to talk with Mateusz Blaszczyk and Krzysztof Jarek with the Kings of Mead. We will not be live tonight, as our friends in Poland cannot do the live time slot. Kings of Mead is three home meadmaking friends, Mateusz, Krzysztof and Rafal Gorecki, who have a website and do a video cast about mead. They're passionate about spreading the word of mead. They do mead reviews on their site and video show, talk about the meads they're making and drinking, ...
8-27-19 Sam Slaughter, Author of Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum (and a secret guest)
August 27, 2019 20:33 - 2 hours - 122 MB8-27-19 We're headed out to talk to other folks tonight, finding some folks who love mead, but aren't in the mead industry. Sam Slaughter (@slaughterwrites) is the author of Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? and Other Cocktails for 90s Kids, which was released this past June. He currently works as the Food & Drink Editor for the men's lifestyle magazine the Manual and lives in Greenville, SC.His work has been featured in Maxim, Bloomberg, The Bitter Southerner, and many other places. Sam is a 9...