Podcast appearances and mentions of griffin meadery

1-18-22 Tonight we're talking with Mike and Cathy Rape, owners of The Ferm Meadery in Conroe, TX. They're making great mead and having a good time spreading mead, music and food around to their customers. Cathy and Mike are native Texans, and grew up in Conroe, TX. They've been married 26yrs and have 3 grown kids and a grandchild. They also own and operate a company that provides temporary power and temperature control mostly for live events. Around the time their kids became teenagers (Because "teenagers") they started home winemaking as a hobby that they could both enjoy together. They were introduced to mead on a business trip to Georgia at the Savannah Bee Co. After that, they were hooked and started focusing almost exclusively on mead making and dreaming of starting a meadery someday. They visited as many meaderies as they could find and attended classes on mead making at UC Davis and the Winemaker Magazine Conference. They also apprenticed ourselves under local meadmakers Bruce and Bridget Leslie of Griffin Meadery (now Punkin Vinyards) as well as Jon Odom of Enchanted Manor Meadery. Once it became apparent that "14 days to slow the spread" was looking more like the end of live events for the foreseeable future & their event business came to a halt they started talking about moving "someday" to now. With lots of time to spare during the lockdowns, they signed a lease on a 1940's building on the Downtown Conroe square and began renovation. They were thrilled to discover they were part of a movement to revitalize the Downtown Conroe food and beverage, nightlife, and live music scene. They opened their tasting room in March of 2021 offering a variety of still meads, sessions, charcuterie boards, and live entertainment. Join us as we talk mead, meadmaking, and starting a meadery (during a pandemic!) tonight at 9PM ET. 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 The Ferm: Historic Downtown Conroe's own meadery established in March 2021 serving standard strength mead, carbonated sessions, and charcuterie boards in a nostalgic 1940s building with live local music. Check it out!   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 We are off for December! Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and we'll see you January 11, 2022! Show links and notes Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events Jan 20 - Apis Mead and Winery, Carnegie, PA - South Hills Run Jan 20 - Artivem Mead Co, Bellingham, WA - Lunch and Learn Jan 21 - Haley's Honey Meadery, Fredricksburg, VA - Paint and Mead Jan 22 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Mead and Music Jan 22 - BottleHouse Brewery and Meadery, Cleveland, OH - Burns Night celebration Jan 23 - Moonjoy Meadery, Lenoir, NC - Mead and Mindfulness with Wolf Moon Salt Cave Jan 28 - Matawi Mead, Cape Town, South Africa - See them at the Ultimate Beverage Showcase at the Cape Town International Convention Centre

Episode 217 was recorded at The Texas Renaissance Festival, the home of Brigadoon Brewery and Brew School. Brewmaster Alan Ward hosted a party that will go down in history. Founder and brewer of Blackwater Draw Brewingin College Station, Chris Weingart and founder and mead maker at Griffin Meadery and Ren Fest Scotch ProfessorBruce Leslie along with the entire InterBrews/Liquid Lunch crew sat down for an epic podcast recording and beer, mead and cider tasting. If you enjoy great drink, big laughs and good times you'll love this episode of InterBrews --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/interbrews/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/interbrews/support

Episode 217 was recorded at The Texas Renaissance Festival, the home of Brigadoon Brewery and Brew School. Brewmaster Alan Ward hosted a party that will go down in history. Founder and brewer of Blackwater Draw Brewing in College Station, Chris Weingart and founder and mead maker at Griffin Meadery and Ren Fest Scotch Professor Bruce […]

Episode 125 of InterBrews was recorded at the 2016 Texas Mead Fest in Conroe. A great time was had by all! In this episode we talked to representatives from Blessed Bee Winery, Dancing Bee Winery, Griffin Meadery, Enchanted Manor Meadery, Meridian Hive Meadery as well as guests and much much more. InterBrews was super proud […]

Recorded 9-22-16. Hosts Catherine and Josh welcome in Griffin Meadery’s Bruce Leslie to discuss the Texas Mead Fest. Also, Catherine blows the lid off the Big Pumpkin scandal aka Pumpkin-gate. Chad and Kennedy are there too.

We welcome Bruce Leslie back on the show for a spotlight episode on Griffin Meadery. Tune in to hear some more about why you should check out Texas Mead, especially from Willis. Don’t forget the Texas Mead Fest is this weekend, September 24! Mini Meadmakr’s first birthday bash is keeping us from the trip, but we’ll … Continue reading "MC046: Mead in Texas – Griffin Meadery" The post MC046: Mead in Texas – Griffin Meadery appeared first on MeadMakr.

Episode 121 was recorded at Griffin Meadery in Willis, TX. Jon Odom, head mead maker and founder of Enchanted Manor Meadery joins the conversation with Griffin Meadery’s Bruce Leslie and InterBrews host Josh Stewart to tell how EMM became the official mead of The Texas Renaissance Festival and all about his awesome meads. Also discussed […]

Oh how sweet (or semi-sweet or dry) it is to hang out with our friends Bruce and Bridgett Leslie at Griffin Meadery in Willis, TX. We talk more mead and life. This is InterBrews.

Episode 119 takes us back out to Griffin Meadery. Bruce and Bridgett Leslie talk mead with Josh and Kennedy as well as all the upcoming awesomeness of The Texas Mead Fest and The Texas Mead Cup.

This episode we have Griffin Meadery and music guest The Broken Spokes!

Episode 002 of Liquid Lunch welcomes Griffin Meadery’s Bruce Leslie to the show. Bruce dropped in to talk about the Texas Mead Fest on September 24 in Conroe, TX.

5-24-16 - Yep, did it again. This time, I was out of town almost the entire break, a good bit of it in the mountains with crap connectivity, so I *do* have a weak excuse. (or at least a weak connectivity excuse) But never fear, we've lined up a great series for you, and will give you good show! This week, we have Bruce Leslie, president of the Texas Mead Association, which also hosts the Texas Meadfest (whaat? there's a meadfest in Texas? Whoohoooo!! Let's *go*!) The Texas Mead Association has been around since 2008, and is there to promote mead in Texas (makes sense). They also host the Texas Meadfest and Competition, now in it's 5th year. And Bruce is also owner of Griffin Meadery, in Willis, TX. On Making Mead-Back to Basics, AJ, Manny and Ryan will be talking about Previous Fermentation Experience coming into meadmaking - A.J. comes from winemaking, Manny is a beer brewer, and Ryan came right into mead, as did Vicky. We're going to talk about how those experiences colored our meadmaking and approaches. Call in and join us!! If you want them to tackle your mead making stuff, you can send us a question and we'll tackle it online! Join us, 9PM Eastern tonight!! 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. 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. What we were drinking: AJ - Vicky - Jon - Manny - Ryan - Show links and notes: Texas Mead Association and Meadfest Texas Mead Cup - entries open June 1-Sept 1, taking both home and commercial entries. Griffin Meadery - Willis, Texas Upcoming Events: Starrlight Meadery - Mead Tastings - multiple dates, go check it out!!! [break] Movie Night: Red Desert - Bos Meadery May 25, 2016 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm    Tickets: Free     $1 off goblets of mead, and free popcorn! The Mead Hall opens at 5p, and the movie starts at 7p. Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. [break] 810 Meadworks - The Moonhunters at the Beergarten[break] 810 Meadworks - Empire Brewfest- June 10-11[break] AHA National Homebrewers Convention - June 9-11[break] National Mead Day - Aug 6[break] Brothers Drake Meadery - ongoing concert events    

Episode 104 was recorded in Willis,TX at Griffin Meadery. Griffin Founders Bruce and Bridgett Leslie sat down with us in the beautiful tasting room to explain what mead is and all it’s variations. Coffee, fruit, spices and hops are all used in different varieties of Griffin’s meads and they are delicious. They had their official […]

  Episode 91 could be considered a bit of a mash up. Off the top Josh, TD Mike and Schomberg convien at Mike’s crib to attempt Mike’s first batch of homebrew, a smoked porter. As the brewing is under way Josh steps away to get an update from Alan Ward, brewmaster and founder of Brigadoon […]