Podcast appearances and mentions of curt stock

5-21-24 Tonight we're talking with Adam Bystrom, Josh Mahoney, Al Boyce and Josh Holbrook, members of the aptly-nicknamed 'Minnesota Mead Mafia'. Josh Holbrook has been home brewing for since 2011 and making mead since 2013. He discovered mead at his local homebrew club when a club member brought a bottle of an attempt at Curt Stock's Triple Berry Melomel. Clouds parted, angels sang, and Josh became obsessed with mead. Josh has won numerous medals for beer, cider and mead, including AMMA National Mead Maker of the Year in 2020, and a couple Best of Shows at competitions such as Minnesota Mashout and Hoppy Halloween. He is also a certified BJCP judge and mead judge as well as a novice beekeeper, and one of the organizers for Valkyries Horn Mead Competition. One of Josh's long term mead goals is to make mead with each of the 300+ varietal honeys found in the United States. He has 44 under his belt already and shows no signs of stopping. In November of 2017 Adam Bystrom suddenly got a craving for that sweet nectar we all know; mead. With no meaderies in the area and little to no availability at liquor stores he decided to learn how to home brew. Since then mead has been the exclusive beverage he's fermented with a particular focus on session meads. He's been fortunate to win awards in a number of competitions all around the country and is a proud member of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association. Making mead since 2008. BJCP mead judge, addicted to collecting Mazer Cups, thinks JAOM is underrated, and his favorite spice is vanilla. Al Boyce has been a homebrewer since the early 1990's.  He tasted his first mead at Bunratty Castle in Ireland, and was hooked. Orange Blossom is his favorite honey, Sangiovese is his favorite grape, and 71B is his favorite yeast. He is obsessed with Jamaican Sorrel (hibiscus), and vows to keep making Sorrel meads until he finally gets it right.  He recently moved to a lake home in central Minnesota where he lives with his wife Beth and his Golden Retriever Cooper. Join us for what will most likely be mead madness! This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback.[break] Sponsor: Honnibrook Craft Meadery. Rated the very best winery in Colorado! Visit our state-of-the-art meadery and tasting room south of downtown Castle Rock, Colorado, in a converted man cave. Mention the Got Mead Podcast this month for a free draft taster!  Google H-O-N-N-I Brook for hours and directions. They love visitors!  www.honnibrook.com If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @realGotMead and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT Join us on live chat during the show Upcoming Shows Show links and notes Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Let There Be Session Meads by Rob Ratliff Monin liqeuer concentrates Upcoming Events May 22 - Beer Barons of Milwaukee, Hales Corner, WI - Modern Mead Making with Mazer Cup Best of Show winner Jason Rohloff May 25 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Lisa playing live music May 25 - Lilly Belle Mead, Holland, New York - Mead Festival May 25 - Wye Valley Meadery, Caldicot, UK - Groove Jacks Live May 31 - The Barge Inn, Pewsy, UK - Mead and Cider Weekend June 1 - Battle Axe Mead House, Hickory, NC - 1st Anniversary Party June 1 - Grimsby Hollow Meadery, Middleville, MI - Drink Mead, Learn Things: Japanese Swordsmanship June 7-9 - Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, DE - Party Like it's 793: 2024 Mead, Metal and Viking Festival Jun 13 - Apis Mead & Winery, Carnegie, PA - Hurry Up, Say Something Funny Comedy night June 15 - Mutton & Mead Tavern and Inne, Greenfield, MA - Medieval Bash: Roads to Revelry with mead from Sap House Meadery and beer ...

Dr. Curt Stock works at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful. He played a significant role in bringing the teen resource center to the south end of the district and was a key stakeholder who helped raise $500,000 to establish the centers. Dr. Stock shares why he got involved in the Woods Cross Teen Resource Center project and how the other doctors in the area helped.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9:05 - 9:20 - Student test scores decline, how does it fair in Utah?  Student test scores have declined nationwide, largely due to COVID-19. Where does Utah stand in this? Despite this slump, Utah's student test scores in reading and math were higher than the national average. We are joined by Woods Cross High Math Teacher Sharee Paxton, who shares her thoughts on the overall decline of math scores.   9:35 - Gail Miller discusses the issue of Teen Homelessness  Gail Miller is the Co-Founder of The Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation. She contributed to the $1 million donation to build teen resource centers for students who are at risk of or currently struggling with homelessness. Gail joins the show to discuss the issue of teen homelessness, why it is so important to her, and what we should do to help.   9:50 -Inside Teen Resource Centers in the Davis School District  Dave took a tour of the teen resource center by Woods Cross High School with Jodi Lunt, Executive Director of Davis Education Foundation. The center provides useful resources such as a place to shower, do laundry, and meet for one-on-one counseling. Jodi gives background on how she started the teen center projects and explains what is provided to students at these teen resource centers.   10:05 - Working one on one with homeless youth at Woods Cross High School  Deanne Kapetanov is the Principal of Woods Cross High. She has worked closely with Jodi Lunt to get the teen resource center built at the school. Kabrie Smith is the Teen Resource Center Coordinator and Family Service Worker at Woods Cross High. She works one-on-one with the students at the center. They speak on their role and passion for the teen resource center.   10:20 - Meet the people who helped build Teen Resource Centers in the Davis School District  Chris Hogan is the President and CEO of Hogan Construction, which has built five of the six teen resource centers. Antoine Caableton has been the Lead Foreman of the Teen Resource Center projects and also has a close connection to the impact. They join the show to talk about their involvement in the creation of the centers and their personal connection to them.   10:35 - How Teen Centers are making a direct impact to youth Kara Toone is the Coordinator for Davis Education Foundation in the Davis School District. The foundation takes part in working one-on-one to provide resources for students/families who experience homelessness in Davis School District. Kara also trains and directs the work of the school counselors, family service workers, teen center coordinators, who help these students and families.  10:50 - Resources for Youth in need of a place to sleep in SLC Many youth experience homelessness, and many need a resource to find a place to sleep. Dani Nives, Division Director of Youth Homeless Services with Volunteers of America and Oversees Youth Resource Center joins the show to discuss the resources available through Volunteers of America.  11:05 - Fundraising efforts for Teen homelessness  Dr. Curt Stock works at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful. He played a significant role in bringing the teen resource center to the south end of the district and was a key stakeholder who helped raise $500,000 to establish the centers. Dr. Stock shares why he got involved in the Woods Cross Teen Resource Center project and how the other doctors in the area helped.   11:20 - Gender Bias in Domestic Violence  Gender bias in cases of domestic violence. Question: do we believe men when they say THEY'RE the victim? In a moment, Sheriff Rosie Rivera weighs in. Often, we discuss stats about females -- 25% will be victims. CDC reports 10% of men are victims too. SLCO Sheriff Rosie Rivera joins the show to speak about the issue of Gender Bias involving Domestic Violence.  11:35 - How Teen Resource Centers have contributed to achievement  Jenica Whitworth is the Teen Center Director for the Davis School District. She helped open the first teen resource center in the Davis School District while she was working at Clearfield High. She joins the show to talk about the outcomes of the teen resource centers and her hopes for the students who use them. Zach Wheatley, Family Service worker, Viewmont and Bountiful High (future teen center coordinator for those schools) also joins the show to discuss his work.  11:50 - The Huntsman Foundation's Contribution to Homeless Youth  We are joined by Christena Huntsman Durham, who contributed to the $1 million joint donation for the creation of the teen resource centers. Christena Huntsman Durhamm, The Huntsman Foundation joins the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9-20-22 - Tonight is a night of mead and madness, as we welcome the Minnesota Mead Mafia gang to the show. Right on the heels of the Valkyries' Horn Mead Competition, this bunch of maniacal mead makers have a lot of great info to bring, and even more craziness. Matt Weide likes to make mead. He is also on the AMMA home board, Founding board member of the Valkyries Horn Mead Competition, 2014 Mead Maker of the Year and a BJCP endorsed mead judge. However, he mostly likes to drink mead. Nathan Steigman is a Saint Paul resident. He got into Mead making back in 2017. Nate is a recovering competition addict. He appreciate all categories of Mead, discovering “new to him” honey, and experimenting with fruits, yeasts, spice flavors and wood/barrel aging. He still drinks the mistakes and eats his broccoli often. He sometimes asks profound questions and sometimes gets profound answers. Josh Holbrook has been home brewing for since 2011 and making mead since 2013. He discovered mead at his local homebrew club when a club member brought a bottle of an attempt at Curt Stock's Triple Berry Melomel. Clouds parted, angels sang, and Josh became obsessed with mead. Josh has won numerous medals for beer, cider and mead, including AMMA National Mead Maker of the Year in 2020, and a couple Best of Shows at competitions such as Minnesota Mashout and Hoppy Halloween. He is also a certified BJCP judge and mead judge as well as a novice beekeeper, and one of the organizers for Valkyries Horn Mead Competition. One of Josh's long term mead goals is to make mead with each of the 300+ varietal honeys found in the United States. He has 44 under his belt already and shows no signs of stopping. Al Boyce has been a homebrewer since the early 1990's.  He tasted his first mead at Bunratty Castle in Ireland, and was hooked. Orange Blossom is his favorite honey, Sangiovese is his favorite grape, and 71B is his favorite yeast. He is obsessed with Jamaican Sorrel (hibiscus), and vows to keep making Sorrel meads until he finally gets it right.  He recently moved to a lake home in central Minnesota where he lives with his wife Beth and his Golden Retriever Cooper. In November of 2017 Adam Bystrom suddenly got a craving for that sweet nectar we all know; mead. With no meaderies in the area and little to no availability at liquor stores he decided to learn how to home brew. Since then mead has been the exclusive beverage he's fermented with a particular focus on session meads. He's been fortunate to win awards in a number of competitions all around the country and is a proud member of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association. Josh Mahoney has been making mead since 2008. He is a BJCP mead judge, and is addicted to collecting Mazer Cups. Josh thinks JAOM is underrated, and his favorite spice is vanilla. (and extra points if you can tell us who that pic looks like). This show should be both info-rich and a riot. Join us!! This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback.[break] [break]Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! Sponsor: Honnibrook Craft Meadery. Rated the very best winery in Colorado! Visit our state-of-the-art meadery and tasting room south of downtown Castle Rock, Colorado, in a converted man cave. Mention the Got Mead Podcast this month for a free draft taster!  Google H-O-N-N-I Brook for hours and directions. They love visitors!  www.honnibrook.com If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @GotmeadNow and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT Join us on live chat during the show Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam),

Tonight 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 finishes. It may need more acid, or tannins, or need sweetness or flavors from fruits, spices or a honey varietal adjusted to get to the final result you want. And that is where bench trials come in. Figuring out what needs to be added or adjusted to get that final mead flavor profile is a process, and we're going to dig into that tonight. Dustin Deisher started brewing with his former band mate and best friend Jeremy Goehring in 2013 after binging on Skyrim. After getting some equipment and some pointers from the local homebrew shop they were on their way to conjure up some liquid gold! In 2014 they met other fellow mead makers when they joined the Lincoln Lagers Homebrew Club. After their first medal at a major competition (2nd with a wildflower traditional at the 2014 Mead Free Or Die) they were hooked. They spent many years competing with standard strength meads. It wasn’t until the last couple of years they really started pursuing session meads. After applying some techniques used in brewing beer they could add new elements such as carbonation to their arsenal! Dustin started using different beer yeasts and post fermentation additions to produce balanced and sparkling melomels. This eventually led them to the Mazer Cup where they were able to put their hydromels to the real test. They had the pleasure to do a scale up of one of their 2019 M3A Mazer Cup winners at Boiler Brewing Co. Along with competing, Dustin became a Certified Beer and Mead BJCP Judge. Becoming a judge has helped him develop a better palate for varietal honeys. When they used these in their hydromel batches it took everything to a whole new level. Last year they saw the fruits of their labor when they placed 2nd BOS under Ken Schramm at The Valkyries Horn. Dustin's next step in his mead making career is to bring sparkling hydromels to his local craft brew industry. Jeff Anderson been homebrewing for 8 years. His main love is brewing traditional German styles of beer but after Curt Stock visited his brew club for their annual Sower's Cup competition several years ago, Jeff fell in love with the idea of making fast turn around hydromel strength meads and specifically fruit and berry meads. Most of his inspiration is pulled from his culinary experience and he really just loves to experiment with different flavor combinations. Currently, he is also a BJCP certified beer and mead judge. Before covid, Jeff was on track to round out the trifecta with a cider cert as well until NHC was cancelled. He really loves education in homebrewing and makes it a goal to continually add new techniques to his brewing toolbox. Join us on the live chat and don't be afraid to call in if you want to! This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback.[break] [break]Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @GotmeadNow and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT Join us on live chat during the show Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows Feb 2 - Clint Walker,

7-23-19 We're off to northern Minnesota tonight talk with Curt Stock about the Valkyries Horn, Mead Competition of the Gods. And of course talk shop with Curt about mead! When I asked Curt for some background on himself, he came back with 'overrated meadmaker' (his words). However, we wanted to give y'all a little bit more than that, so here is a bit about Curt. Curt's been homebrewing since 1996. He started making mead after he purchased Ken’s The Complete Meadmaker at the 2003 AHA conference in Chicago. He then got hooked on melomels. He made it to the AHA 2nd round BOS table in 2004 in Las Vegas (lost to Formanek and Devaris, not bad company) then won MMOTY in 2005 in Baltimore. He attended a few of the IMFs (International Mead Festival) during that time where he met me, Oskar, David Myers, Ken, Pete Devaris and others. He also hung out with Michael Fairbrother a lot before he went pro. Many fun times were had and headaches! Join us to talk with Curt about the Valkyries Horn Mead Competition and talk shop with him about his meads and what he's been doing. This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback. Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @GotmeadNow and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT Join us on live chat during the show Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Show links and notes Evoak - Oak Solutions Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Guests: July 30 - Recolte Mead Upcoming Events July 24 - Bos Meadery - synthesizer group The Blips July 25 - Golden Coast Mead - Monthly Meading and Homebrew share July 26 - Rebel Meadery, Stonekeep Meadery, The Colony Meadery - Bear Creek Wine Festival July 27 - Orcas Island Cider and Mead Festival Aug 2 - B. Nektar - 11th Birthday and Mead Day Celebration Aug 3 - Queen City Meadery - Grand Opening and National Mead Day Festival Aug 3 - Meridian Hive Meadery - National Mead Day Celebration Aug 3 - The Beer Exchange in Kalamazoo - Mead Day Celebration Aug 3 - Schramm's Mead - Mead Day Celebration and Food Pairing Aug 3 - Royal Meadery - Mead Day Celebration Aug 3 - Long Island Mead Festival - Including Beacon Meadery, Enlightenment Wines, Haymaker Meadery, Meridian Hive, Mutiny Distribution, MYSTO MEAD, Remarkable Liquids Distribution, Slate Point Meadery, & W A Meadwerks with more being added every day. Aug 8 - Skal Beer Hall - Washington Mead Fest Aug 10 - Orchid Cellar Mead - Frederick County Craft Beverage Festival Aug 31 - New Day Craft Mead - Meadful Things and Outciders Festival Sept 22 - Starrlight Mead - Mead Day Celebration and Fall Festival Got an event you’d like us to mention on GotMead Live? Send us an email at gotmeadlive@gotmead.com and tell us about it!

Ryan: “How much fruit would you put in a 5 gallon batch?” Curt Stock: “Oh, 30 to 40 pounds…” Wait, what?! Ryan and Jeff host mead guru Curt Stock and dive head first into one of Curt’s favorite things, big Mel’s. Jeff sends out a sample box, he and Ryan

Curt Stock joins me this week to discuss brewing the perfect Cream Ale and a little bit about fruit meads. You can find additional episodes and show notes on my blog here.

Curt Stock joins me this week to discuss brewing the perfect Cream Ale and a little bit about fruit meads. You can find additional episodes and show notes on my blog here.

The mead panel discussion at the National Homebrewers Conference, featuring Byron Burch, Charlie Papazian, Curt Stock and Harold Gulbransen.