Podcasts about hierophant meadery

2-11-25 Tonight we're talking with Kirubell Araya, owner of The Heritage Winery, in New Jersey. Kirubell has taken over the making of t'ej from his father, and is now located in the old location for Melovino Meadery. The Heritage Winery has been open since 1978, making it one of the oldest honey wineries in the US. Araya Yibrehu, Kirubell's father, is a pioneer in bringing Ethiopian cuisine and Tej to the United States. He opened Sheba in 1978, argueably the first Ethiopian restaurant in the US. Over the years he opened several more restaurants, with the most renowned being the Blue Nile in NYC, which became an icon for Ethiopian food lovers. Beyond this, Araya was also a trailblazer in crafting and commercializing Tej n the US, helping to preserve and share this ancient tradition with a wider audience. This would later become the Heritage Winery. Kirubell followed in his father's entrepreneurial footsteps, and grew up immersed in the family business. He graduated from Morehouse College in 2010, and went into commodities brokering, but came back to his roots. He joined the family venture in 2013, bringing a fresh vision and new identity to the Heritage Winery. In 2018 he left his job in finance to dedicate himself to expanding the company. The Heritage Winery meads are made with organic, single-source honey from sustainable farms. Each batch is carefully fermented to highlight the rich floral complexity of the honey, balanced with the earthy bitterness of hops, a key ingredient in traditional Tej. Currently they offer Axum Tej, made with wildflower honey, and Saba Tej, crafted from orange blossom honey. They plan to expand into meads that include fruit, coffee and sparkling Tej, moving an ancient drink into the 21st century. Join us to learn more about Tej and see what Kirubell is doing with this traditional mead!   This player will show the most recent show.  [break] To listen live, you can find us on Youtube (Youtube starting 1-15-25), Twitch, X (Twitter), and Facebook on the Gotmead Page. On our new platform, chat is part of the podcast! Just comment from wherever you are watching, and we'll see it!! If you'd like to call in, we can get you a link to come on! Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/meadwench YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXObw9sufjUx3NWRX02CxA X(Twitter): https://x.com/RealGotMead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GotMead Sponsor: Look no further than Honnibrook Craft Meadery in Castle Rock, Colorado, for your go-to destination for wonderful, light, and refreshing mead! We have 20 meads on tap and four seasonal mead slushees.  Go to honnibrook.com for review our tap list, upcoming events and to order online! Crafting excellent mead requires excellent honey. Luckily The Honey Jar is here to help. Since 2005 The Honey Jar has been supplying delicious pure raw honey in easy to handle 12-pound pails to hobbyist brewers around the United States. Visit us at TheHoneyJarHome.com/gotmead 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 (United States) 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 Upcoming Events Feb 12 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfullness Mead Up Feb 12 - ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA - Brews and Brushes: A Valentine's Date Night Feb 12 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex Junction, VT - Mead Series Part 2: Fruit Meads Feb 13 - Hierophant Meadery, Freeland, WA - Mead and Chocolate Paring Class with Sweet Mona's Chocolate Feb 14 - Brothers Drake Meadery - Columbus, OH - Mead and Chocolate Flight Feb 13 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Good Brother Earl live music Feb 14 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead and Chocolate Feb 15 - For You Brewing Supplies, Terre Haute, IN - Mead Competition Feb 16 - St. Ambrose Meadery, Beulah, MI - Bee Mine: Mead and Cheese Pairing with the Cheese Lady Feb 18 - Bløm Mead and Cider, Ann Arbor, MI - Babies and Brew - toys and storytime Feb 19 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Feb 20 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Day One live acoustic music Feb 22 - Sons of Vikings, Chesapeake, VA - Mead Tasting with meads from Breezy Hill Meadworks Feb 23 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! Feb 26 - Cupka's Bee Good Meadery, Auburn, IN - Mead Makers Night Feb 28 - European Mead Makers Conference, Kraków, Poland March 1 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class March 1 - Grimsby Hollow Meadery, Middleville, MI - Drink Mead, Learn Things - Fantasy Drawing Workshop March 1 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - 3 Pints Gone live music March 5 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night March 6 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Cover 2 live music March 7 n- Bumbling Fools Mead, Minneapolis, MN - Viking Mead Tour - Party Bus!! March 8 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead and Food Pairing Experience March 10 - Happy Butts Honey, Watertown, SD - Mead Making Workshop March 15 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class March 22 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! April 12 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com

2-11-25 Tonight we're talking with Kirubell Araya, owner of The Heritage Winery, in New Jersey. Kirubell has taken over the making of t'ej from his father, and is now located in the old location for Melovino Meadery. The Heritage Winery has been open since 1978, making it one of the oldest honey wineries in the US. Araya Yibrehu, Kirubell's father, is a pioneer in bringing Ethiopian cuisine and Tej to the United States. He opened Sheba in 1978, argueably the first Ethiopian restaurant in the US. Over the years he opened several more restaurants, with the most renowned being the Blue Nile in NYC, which became an icon for Ethiopian food lovers. Beyond this, Araya was also a trailblazer in crafting and commercializing Tej n the US, helping to preserve and share this ancient tradition with a wider audience. This would later become the Heritage Winery. Kirubell followed in his father's entrepreneurial footsteps, and grew up immersed in the family business. He graduated from Morehouse College in 2010, and went into commodities brokering, but came back to his roots. He joined the family venture in 2013, bringing a fresh vision and new identity to the Heritage Winery. In 2018 he left his job in finance to dedicate himself to expanding the company. The Heritage Winery meads are made with organic, single-source honey from sustainable farms. Each batch is carefully fermented to highlight the rich floral complexity of the honey, balanced with the earthy bitterness of hops, a key ingredient in traditional Tej. Currently they offer Axum Tej, made with wildflower honey, and Saba Tej, crafted from orange blossom honey. They plan to expand into meads that include fruit, coffee and sparkling Tej, moving an ancient drink into the 21st century. Join us to learn more about Tej and see what Kirubell is doing with this traditional mead!   This player will show the most recent show.  [break] To listen live, you can find us on Youtube (Youtube starting 1-15-25), Twitch, X (Twitter), and Facebook on the Gotmead Page. On our new platform, chat is part of the podcast! Just comment from wherever you are watching, and we'll see it!! If you'd like to call in, we can get you a link to come on! Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/meadwench YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXObw9sufjUx3NWRX02CxA X(Twitter): https://x.com/RealGotMead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GotMead Sponsor: Look no further than Honnibrook Craft Meadery in Castle Rock, Colorado, for your go-to destination for wonderful, light, and refreshing mead! We have 20 meads on tap and four seasonal mead slushees.  Go to honnibrook.com for review our tap list, upcoming events and to order online! Crafting excellent mead requires excellent honey. Luckily The Honey Jar is here to help. Since 2005 The Honey Jar has been supplying delicious pure raw honey in easy to handle 12-pound pails to hobbyist brewers around the United States. Visit us at TheHoneyJarHome.com/gotmead 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 (United States) 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 Upcoming Events Feb 12 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfullness Mead Up Feb 12 - ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA - Brews and Brushes: A Valentine's Date Night Feb 12 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex Junction, VT - Mead Series Part 2: Fruit Meads Feb 13 - Hierophant Meadery, Freeland, WA - Mead and Chocolate Paring Class with Sweet Mona's Chocolate Feb 14 - Brothers Drake Meadery - Columbus, OH - Mead and Chocolate Flight Feb 13 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon,

1-28-25 We're hanging out with Traci Kufuss tonight, and talking about mead making, and putting recipes together. She's brought a couple of her recipes to share, and we'll dig into the mechanics of mead recipes and getting it to come out well. Traci Kuhfuss comes to us from Texas by way of Arizona. She ís been active as a homebrewer and mead maker for 20 years now, participating in brew clubs and competitions in all the places she has lived and traveled.. Traci is a professional graphic designer who loves making mead. Traci got into brewing once upon a time, she was newly divorced and her friends were all getting married and having kids. She was bored with sitting at home with nothing to do. Her friends got her a home brewing kit that year for Christmas. She made her first beer that New Years Eve. She eventually joined a homebrew club and was introduced to mead. She started making mead then and winning more medals with mead than beer. She has been consistently winning awards since 2005 to include many BOS wins such as Great Arizona Home Brew Competitions, Orpheus Cup, Queen of Beer, and Mead Stampede. After moving to Texas, she briefly dipped a toe in the commercial realm but went back to the homebrew scene. She has even helped with Texas Rivers Distilling in advising how to make good mead to make award winning Honey Creek Honey Spirits. Which took a silver medal in February 2023 at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. She has been involved in many competitions including The Great Arizona Homebrew Competition and The Great Arizona Mead Competition when she lived in Phoenix, Arizona. Upon moving to Texas she became involved in the local Houston homebrew scene with her clubs the Cane Island Alers and Sugarland Imperialists, helping to grow the mead community & assisting in Operation Fermentation. Traci also ran the Texas Mead Cup from 2019 to 2023 and has new plans to grow the mead judging pool and assist other Texas clubs in growing mead entries in their competitions. Here are a couple recipes she's made: McNutt Rum Amburana (Multi BOS mead) For 3-4 Gallons 12lbs Macadamia Nut Blossom Honey Water to 35 BRIX (1.153SG) Yeast: D-47 5 grams (If you are in a climate too finicky you can use Lutra or EC1118) Bloom yeast with GoFerm and Fermaid O (Follow dosing for your size batch) Mix your honey and water, start measuring gravity once you have added 1.5 gallons. Keep adding until you get to 34-35 BRIX Add your bloomed yeast and get some oxygen in it. After fermentation is done (I finish at 1.030-1.040, 14-16%) Add your rum soaked amburana wood. Add amburana to white rum; use 5-6 wafers from a spiral. a little amburana goes a long way. Add the amburana to your racked, stabilized and clarified mead. TASTE IT DAILY. Pull when you are almost to where you want the flavor to be as it will continue to bloom flavors. Very little acid adjustments, but adjust to where you like it. Red Pyment (Terroir of the White Box) For 3-4 Gallons 12lbs Orange Blossom Honey 1 Box of Water to 33 Brix (1.1437 SG) Yeast: 5grams 71B Bloom yeast with GoFerm and Fermaid O (Follow dosing for your size batch) Mix your honey and water, start measuring gravity once you have added 1.5 gallons. Keep adding until you get to 34-35 BRIX Add your bloomed yeast and get some oxygen in it. ***add 10-12 cubes of Hungarian Oak to ferment on*** Finish at 10 Brix (1.040 FG) Yes it is sweet, the oak will help offset the sweetness. Rack/stabilize/clarify Join us to talk mead with Traci, and explore making better mead.   This player will show the most recent show.  [break] To listen live, you can find us on Youtube (Youtube starting 1-15-25), Twitch, X (Twitter), and Facebook on the Gotmead Page. On our new platform, chat is part of the podcast! Just comment from wherever you are watching, and we'll see it!! If you'd like to call in, we can get you a link to come on! Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/meadwench YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXObw9sufjUx3NWRX02CxA X(Twitter): https://x.com/RealGotMead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GotMead Sponsor: Look no further than Honnibrook Craft Meadery in Castle Rock, Colorado, for your go-to destination for wonderful, light, and refreshing mead! We have 20 meads on tap and four seasonal mead slushees.  Go to honnibrook.com for review our tap list, upcoming events and to order online! Crafting excellent mead requires excellent honey. Luckily The Honey Jar is here to help. Since 2005 The Honey Jar has been supplying delicious pure raw honey in easy to handle 12-pound pails to hobbyist brewers around the United States. Visit us at TheHoneyJarHome.com/gotmead 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 (United States) 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 Upcoming Events Jan 29 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfulness Mead Up Feb 1 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class Feb 2 - Honey and Hops Brew Works, Front Royal, VA - Mead and Seed - seed exchange Feb 5 - Mead People 716, Hamburg, NY - Galentine's Day Cookie Class at the Meading Room Feb 5 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Feb 6 - Mjodgard, Haslev, Denmark - Mead and Food Pairing at Bregnen Feb 8 - Thistlerock Mead Company, Charlottesville, VA - Kinnfolk live Celtic music Feb 8 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class Feb 8 - Hierophant Meadery, Freeland, WA - Imbolc Golden Hours - Pizza Pop Up - Herbal Offerings - Mulled Mead Feb 8 - Viking Alchemist Meadery, Smyrna, GA - Mead and Mini Painting Feb 8 - Grimsby Hollow Mead, Middleville, MI - Drink Mead, Learn Things: Warfare in MI: Soldiers of  the War of1812 Feb 12 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex Junction, VT - Mead Series Part 2: Fruit Meads Feb 13 - Hierophant Meadery, Freeland, WA - Mead and Chocolate Paring Class with Sweet Mona's Chocolate Feb 14 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead and Chocolate Feb 15 - For You Brewing Supplies, Terre Haute, IN - Mead Competition Feb 16 - St. Ambrose Meadery, Beulah, MI - Mead and Cheese Pairing with the Cheese Lady Feb 19 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Feb 20 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Day One live acoustic music Feb 22 - Sons of Vikings, Chesapeake, VA - Mead Tasting with meads from Breezy Hill Meadworks Feb 23 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! Feb 28 - European Mead Makers Conference, Kraków, Poland March 1 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class March 5 - Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night March 15 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class March 22 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! April 12 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com  

1-14-25 Tonight at 9PM ET, we're talking with Kyle Ducharme and Bill Boyer Bill is in the Minnesota Mead Mafia, and if you've competed, you know he makes good mead. Kyle is from Vermont and has been tearing up the mead world as well. We're going to be exploring what they've done with their meads, and how they put their recipes together. We'll also be talking about chocolate meads! Kyle Ducharme from Northern Vermont and is a home mead maker that has experience with quality assurance positions in the food and beverage industries. He has been making mead since the fall of 2019, really diving deep during the pandemic. He originally learned from podcasts/youtubers such as Gotmead, The Mead House, Doin the Most, and Man Made Mead. He later joined his homebrew club where he discovered some other mead makers, but mainly beer brewers and judges. He was motivated by the online community to enter competitions and after winning some medals, he entered more competitions to get feedback and improve his skills. That was a valuable step, but becoming a beer and mead judge was really what made him grow exponentially in his mead making. By traveling to learn from others and to judge meads, he could bring that knowledge to others in his homebrew club and online communities. Outside of competing and judging comps, he has started a mead class and small Iron Bee style mead competition to share knowledge/feedback with others. His major goal is to create another major mead competition in New England and to bring up the homebrew mead scene in the area. He is passionate about using foraged ingredients and fruit from local farmers and utilizing honey from all over the world. His parents own a small hop yard and that is what got him initially interested in fermentation. Back in 2010, Bill started brewing with a Mr. Beer Kit and rapidly upgraded to doing all grain brewing. Knowing his wife was not a fan of hops but loved sweet ciders, he started exploring meads & ciders. In 2020, he started expanding his meads & ciders, not only because the shelf life was longer but also because no one was around to drink his beer (Damn COVID). With an abundance of mead & ciders cluttering up his basement, he's branched out from the local homebrew competitions and started submitting to nationwide ones, having won more than 500+ awards since 2021. Bill is an active member of the North Georgia Malt Monkeys, Marietta Association of Schoolhouse Homebrewers (MASH) and runs the Mead & Cider Makers & Tasters group in the Atlanta Area.  He is also the competition organizer of the North Georgia Homebrew Competition.   This player will show the most recent show.  [break] To listen live, you can find us on Youtube (Youtube starting 1-15-25), Twitch, X (Twitter), and Facebook on the Gotmead Page. On our new platform, chat is part of the podcast! Just comment from wherever you are watching, and we'll see it!! If you'd like to call in, we can get you a link to come on! Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/meadwench YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXObw9sufjUx3NWRX02CxA X(Twitter): https://x.com/RealGotMead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GotMead Sponsor: Look no further than Honnibrook Craft Meadery in Castle Rock, Colorado, for your go-to destination for wonderful, light, and refreshing mead! We have 20 meads on tap and four seasonal mead slushees.  Go to honnibrook.com for review our tap list, upcoming events and to order online! 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 (United States) 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 Upcoming Events Jan 15 - Green Mountain Mashers, VT - Mead Series Part 1: Traditional Mead Jan 15 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfulness Mead Up Jan 15 - Kingview Mead, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Jan 16 - Nucleus Mead, Linesville, PA - Mead and Read Jan 18 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Lisa live music Jan 18 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary & Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class Jan 21 - Blom Meadworks, Ann Arbor, MI - Babies and Brew - family gathering Jan 22 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfulness Mead Up Jan 23 - Edible Education Experience, Orlando, FL - Culinary Curiosities: The Art and Science of Turning Honey into Mead Jan 25 - MeadKrieger, Loveland, CO - 2 Year Anniversary Celebration! Jan 25 - Crafted Artisan Meadery, Mogadore, OH - Mead and Meditation Jan 25 - Crafted Artisan Winery, Mogadore, OH - Mead 101 Class Feb 2 - Honey and Hops Brew Works, Front Royal, VA - Mead and Seed - seed exchange Feb 5 - Mead People 716, Hamburg, NY - Galentine's Day Cookie Class at the Meading Room Feb 6 - Mjodgard, Haslev, Denmark - Mead and Food Pairing at Bregnen Feb 8 - Thistlerock Mead Company, Charlottesville, VA - Kinnfolk live Celtic music Feb 8 - Hierophant Meadery, Freeland, WA - Imbolc Golden Hours - Pizza Pop Up - Herbal Offerings - Mulled Mead Feb 12 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex Junction, VT - Mead Series Part 2: Fruit Meads You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com  

Put on your smoking jacket and pack your pipe, it's time for the Malt Couture NA Cocktail Hour! Alex and Stephen sip on NA cocktail offerings from St. Agrestis, Hierophant Meadery, Fieldwork Brewing Co., and Burial Beer Co. In the Beer News, Athletic Brewing plans to put their beers on draft but questions about food safety arise about putting NA Beers on tap, a limited edition beer glass invented in Japan aims to make drinking safer for your liver, and Alex gushes over his love of Dave Portnoy.  Thanks to Horus Aged Ales for sponsoring this episode! Follow them on Instagram @HorusAgedAles to find out where they're pouring at festivals and how to join their club!  To get involved with the  "Life" International Barleywine Collab, click the link for info about the recipe, BSG discount, and links to help raise awareness of colon cancer.  If you'd like to make a direct donation to help support Alex, head over to his GoFundMe.  For more info about colon cancer and to help support the fight against it check out the Colon Cancer Foundation.  Head to our Patreon for weekly exclusive content. Get the Malt Couture Officially Licensed T-shirt. Follow DontDrinkBeer on Instagram and Twitter.

Host Dena Marie with guests Jeremy Kyncl owner of Hierophant Meadery, Randy Gomm owner of Radiant Health Saunas and Monique Peters owner of Amplify Media Strategies will be discussing the health benefits of cold and hot therapies. And how you can use them to lift your spirits physically and mentally! Website(s): www.hierophantmeadery.com www.radianthealthsaunas.com www.amplifymediastrategies.com Music: Follow the Sun http://www.clintmccunemuisc.com

Host Dena Marie with guests Jeremy Kyncl owner of Hierophant Meadery, Randy Gomm owner of Radiant Health Saunas and Monique Peters owner of Amplify Media Strategies will be discussing the health benefits of cold and hot therapies. And how you can use them to lift your spirits physically and mentally! Website(s): Hierophant Meadery www.radianthealthsaunas.com http://www.amplifymediastrategies.com/ Music: Follow the Sun http://www.clintmccunemuisc.com 

10-18-22 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we're looking forward to talking with Keith Seiz with the National Honey Board. We usually like to have Keith and Alison on during National Honey Month in September, but this year we're doing October.  We'll be finding out what the Honey Board has been up to, and talking about their Honey20 Project, the Mead Crafters Competition (5th year!), and the Honey Spirits Competition, as well as their other involvement with honey in craft beverages. We'll dig into how it went with the Mead Crafters Competition, and what's coming in future competitions. We'll also be talking with Keith about his MeadCon talk around mead positioning itself as the next big thing, and follow the track of spirits-based RTD. And of course, honey. Seems that the demand for honey in the last year is the largest ever, and it keeps growing. For the last eleven years, Keith has traveled the country educating bakers, distillers, brewers and now mead makers about honey and its many uses. It's his passion, and one that has him working with bees and meads, two of his favorite things. Before working for the National Honey Board, Keith served as editor and associate publisher of a trade publication that covered the wholesale baking industry. Come on in and have a listen! 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. 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 Upcoming Events Oct 19 - Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, NY - Mead and Massage Oct 19 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Mead Hall Trivia Oct 19 - ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA - Cigar Night! Oct 19-30 - Hierophant Meadery, Mead, WA - Harvest Festival Oct 21 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Autumn Mead Pairing Dinner Oct 21 - Gypsy Circus, Knoxville, TN - Birthday Mead Release: Chai and Cosmopolitan Oct 22 - The Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, DE - Mead O'ween Spooktacular Oct 26 - Stardust Cellars, Greensboro, NC - Mead Tasting at the Loaded Grape Oct 27 - WildFlyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Adult Coloring Night - Halloween Theme Oct 29 - The Viking Alchemist, Smyrna, GA - Mead and Mischief '22 Oct 29 - Brix Urban Winery and Market, Sainte Genevieve, MO - All Hallows Mead Oct 29 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Mead-O-Ween Oct 29 - Trazo Meadery, Clarksville, TN - Mead Mayhem Oct 29 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Halloween Party - Tasting, Dinner and Costumes are Encouraged Oct 30 - WildFlyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Halloween at the Honey Farm Nov 5 - Wandering Bard Meadery, Greenville, SC - Guided Mead Tasting - Special Reserve Bottles and Introduction to Mead Making Class Nov 6 - Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, NY - Sunday Brunch Nov 12 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Live music with Bacon Nov 12 - Wyrd Leather and Mead, Portland,

10-18-22 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we're looking forward to talking with Keith Seiz with the National Honey Board. We usually like to have Keith and Alison on during National Honey Month in September, but this year we're doing October.  We'll be finding out what the Honey Board has been up to, and talking about their Honey20 Project, the Mead Crafters Competition (5th year!), and the Honey Spirits Competition, as well as their other involvement with honey in craft beverages. We'll dig into how it went with the Mead Crafters Competition, and what's coming in future competitions. We'll also be talking with Keith about his MeadCon talk around mead positioning itself as the next big thing, and follow the track of spirits-based RTD. And of course, honey. Seems that the demand for honey in the last year is the largest ever, and it keeps growing. For the last eleven years, Keith has traveled the country educating bakers, distillers, brewers and now mead makers about honey and its many uses. It's his passion, and one that has him working with bees and meads, two of his favorite things. Before working for the National Honey Board, Keith served as editor and associate publisher of a trade publication that covered the wholesale baking industry. Come on in and have a listen! 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. 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 Upcoming Events Oct 19 - Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, NY - Mead and Massage Oct 19 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Mead Hall Trivia Oct 19 - ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA - Cigar Night! Oct 19-30 - Hierophant Meadery, Mead, WA - Harvest Festival Oct 21 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Autumn Mead Pairing Dinner Oct 21 - Gypsy Circus, Knoxville, TN - Birthday Mead Release: Chai and Cosmopolitan Oct 22 - The Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, DE - Mead O'ween Spooktacular Oct 26 - Stardust Cellars, Greensboro, NC - Mead Tasting at the Loaded Grape Oct 27 - WildFlyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Adult Coloring Night - Halloween Theme Oct 29 - The Viking Alchemist, Smyrna, GA - Mead and Mischief '22 Oct 29 - Brix Urban Winery and Market, Sainte Genevieve, MO - All Hallows Mead Oct 29 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Mead-O-Ween Oct 29 - Trazo Meadery, Clarksville, TN - Mead Mayhem Oct 29 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Halloween Party - Tasting, Dinner and Costumes are Encouraged Oct 30 - WildFlyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Halloween at the Honey Farm Nov 5 - Wandering Bard Meadery, Greenville, SC - Guided Mead Tasting - Special Reserve Bottles and Introduction to Mead Making Class Nov 6 - Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, NY - Sunday Brunch Nov 12 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Live music with Bacon Nov 12 - Wyrd Leather and Mead, Portland, OR - Mad Hatters Mad Mead Party - Alice in Wonderland Night! Nov 12 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Free Axe Throwing at the Tasting Room You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com If you want to get your event on GotMead Live, let us know at gotmead@Gotmead.com 

October 4, 2022 - Tonight we're headed to the west coast, to talk with Mark Tanner, owner of Seattle Mead Company and Deception Cellars in Washington state. Mark is a Seattle native, and retired Army Lt. Colonel. He's been homebrewing for over 25 years, and making mead professionally since 2018. Mark got interested in mead a while back, and was the first Washington resident to pass the BJCP Mead exam, and went on to teach prep classes for the first two BJCP Mead exams in Washington. Mark opened Seattle Mead Company in 2018, and just opened a tasting room in Anacortes, WA, just north of Deception Pass, as northwest as you can get and still be in the United States. Seattle Mead Co has a flagship mead line that is berry-forward and ranges from off dry to medium sweet. Deception Cellars offers meads designed to mimic dry fruit forward jammy red wines. They age on oak, and are positively made to age for decades (though you can drink them now too!). The Deception Cellars meads are currently taking about 18 months to properly age, oak and blend. He's gone on to take a number of medals with his meads, and most recently picked up a few at the Mazer Cup. Mark is very intense on his meadmaking, and we're going to dig deep tonight on what he's doing. 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows October 18 - Keith Seiz, National Honey Board 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 Upcoming Events Oct 5 - Hierophant Meadery, Mead, WA - Drink Mead at Green Bluff Harvest Festival Oct 5 - Over the Moon Farmstead, Pittsfield, NH - Mead and Read - "At the Edge of the Orchard" by Tracy Chevalier Oct 6 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - Music Bingo Night Oct 8 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Open Mic Night and Mead Oct 8 - Ogden City Brew Supply, Ogden, UT - Mead Making Workshop Oct 8 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Beginning Home Mead Making Class Oct 8 - Apis Mead and Winery, Carnegie, PA - Twilight Queen Release Party Oct 9 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - DIY Workshop! Oct 13 - Wildflyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Book Club - this month "The Last Thing He Told Me" Oct 15 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - Poses with Pints - Yoga Class Oct 15 - Graham Ordinary, Bedford, VA - Mead in the Mountains - Honeymoon Edition! Oct 15 - Honey & Hops Brew Works, Front Royal, VA - Music & Mead featuring Bearded Harmony Oct 15-16 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Meadtoberfest! Oct 21 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Autumn Mead Pairing Dinner Oct 22 - The Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, DE - Mead O'ween Spooktacular Oct 29 - The Viking Alchemist, Smyrna, GA - Mead and Mischief '22 Oct 29 - Brix Urban Winery and Market, Sainte Genevieve, MO - All Hallows Mead

October 4, 2022 - Tonight we're headed to the west coast, to talk with Mark Tanner, owner of Seattle Mead Company and Deception Cellars in Washington state. Mark is a Seattle native, and retired Army Lt. Colonel. He's been homebrewing for over 25 years, and making mead professionally since 2018. Mark got interested in mead a while back, and was the first Washington resident to pass the BJCP Mead exam, and went on to teach prep classes for the first two BJCP Mead exams in Washington. Mark opened Seattle Mead Company in 2018, and just opened a tasting room in Anacortes, WA, just north of Deception Pass, as northwest as you can get and still be in the United States. Seattle Mead Co has a flagship mead line that is berry-forward and ranges from off dry to medium sweet. Deception Cellars offers meads designed to mimic dry fruit forward jammy red wines. They age on oak, and are positively made to age for decades (though you can drink them now too!). The Deception Cellars meads are currently taking about 18 months to properly age, oak and blend. He's gone on to take a number of medals with his meads, and most recently picked up a few at the Mazer Cup. Mark is very intense on his meadmaking, and we're going to dig deep tonight on what he's doing. 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows October 18 - Keith Seiz, National Honey Board 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 Upcoming Events Oct 5 - Hierophant Meadery, Mead, WA - Drink Mead at Green Bluff Harvest Festival Oct 5 - Over the Moon Farmstead, Pittsfield, NH - Mead and Read - "At the Edge of the Orchard" by Tracy Chevalier Oct 6 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - Music Bingo Night Oct 8 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Open Mic Night and Mead Oct 8 - Ogden City Brew Supply, Ogden, UT - Mead Making Workshop Oct 8 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Beginning Home Mead Making Class Oct 8 - Apis Mead and Winery, Carnegie, PA - Twilight Queen Release Party Oct 9 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - DIY Workshop! Oct 13 - Wildflyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Book Club - this month "The Last Thing He Told Me" Oct 15 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - Poses with Pints - Yoga Class Oct 15 - Graham Ordinary, Bedford, VA - Mead in the Mountains - Honeymoon Edition! Oct 15 - Honey & Hops Brew Works, Front Royal, VA - Music & Mead featuring Bearded Harmony Oct 15-16 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Meadtoberfest! Oct 21 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Autumn Mead Pairing Dinner Oct 22 - The Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, DE - Mead O'ween Spooktacular Oct 29 - The Viking Alchemist, Smyrna, GA - Mead and Mischief '22 Oct 29 - Brix Urban Winery and Market, Sainte Genevieve, MO - All Hallows Mead You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com If you want to get your event on GotMead Live, let us know at gotmead@Gotmead.com 

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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows October 4 - Mark Tanner - Seattle Mead Company and Deception Cellars 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 Upcoming Events Sept 21 - Clear Skies Meadery, Gaithersburg, MD - Mind, Body and Mead Yoga class Sept 22 - Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, NY - Mead for Speed Run Club Sept 22 - Funktastic Meads, Midlothian, VA - 80's Trivia Night Sept 23 - Kvlt Mead, Tacoma, WA - Mortal Ashes Bleak Reality Tour Sept 24 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead Day 2022 Sept 24 - Artivem Mead, Bellingham, WA - 2nd Annual Migration - 2nd Anniversary Celebration Sept 24 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Viking Night - dinner, mead, cider and a souvenir mead horn Sept 24 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Open Mic Night Sept 24 - Baxter's Bees - Cedar Grove, NC - Fermented Honey: Mead and Honey Lacto Fermentation Workshop Sept 24 - Hierophant Meadery, Mead, WA - Green Bluff Harvest Festival Sept 26 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Monday Mead and Magic, the Gathering Sept 26-Oct 2 - ARTifice Ales and Meads, Manheim, PA - ARTifest - like Oktoberfest only better Sept 29 - Kvlt Mead, Tacoma, WA - Beware, The Head CollecTOUR Sept 30 - Kvlt Mead, Tacoma, WA - Pirate Invasion! Oct 1 - Stomp and Brew Events, West Jefferson, NC - Stomp and Brew 2022 - Craft Beer, Wine, Cider, Mead and Spirits Festival - proceeds go to support "Shoes for Kids" Oct 1 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - 3rd Annual Mead on Main Viking Festival Oct 5 - Over the Moon Farmstead, Pittsfield, NH - Mead and Read - "At the Edge of the Orchard" by Tracy Chevalier Oct 8 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Beginning Home Mead Making Class Oct 9 - Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead, Warrenton, NC - DIY Workshop! Oct 13 - Wildflyer Mead Co, Navasota, TX - Book Club - this month "The Last Thing He Told Me" You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com If you want to get your event on GotMead Live, let us know at gotmead@Gotmead.com 

7-12-22 Tonight we're chatting with Jeremy Kyncl, co-owner of Hierophant Meadery in Washington with Michelle, his wife, with two locations on the Green Bluff loop in Mead, Washington and a tasting room on Whidbey Island. Jeremy and his wife Michelle have a background in herbs and are focused on local-sourcing their mead ingredients and creating a uniquely local product. They love the 'back-to-nature' aspects of mead making, and all the nuances that plants can add to the mix at various stages of growth. Jeremy is a trained herbalist and behind the deliberately crafted lineup of off-dry meads, and uses responsible sourcing practices and regional honey (often from fellow producers who work along the lush Green Bluff farming loop), both playing fundamental roles. Originally from Colorado, Jeremy Kyncl began homebrewing in college. He was making mead, gruit and beer – including saisons, doppelbocks and wormwood-infused ales – when he met his wife, a Central Valley High School graduate who had grown up in Liberty Lake, in 2008. They were both working on bachelor of science degrees in herbal science at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington, where they began to dream of starting a meadery. Michelle Scandalis is an Herbalist, Ayurvedic Practitioner & Meadmaker specializing in ancient herbal preparations and blending techniques. She holds a degree in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University, where she met Jeremy. Her favorite meads to make are complex metheglin styles. She considers the act of making them, "Guerrilla Herbalism," and hopes to bring appreciate of plants back to the human palate. 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows July 26 - Dan Kesterson at Antelope Ridge Mead in Colorado 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 Upcoming Events July 15 - Big Lost Meadery and Brewery, Gillette, WY - Mead and Greet July 16 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Viking Night with mead and cider July 17 - White Winter Winery, Trego, WI - Great Northern Railroad Mead and Cheese Train Ride July 23 - Orpheus Mead Fest Tasting and Awards Ceremony, Golden, CO July 23 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Intermediate Mead Making Class July 27 - Over the Moon Farmstead, Pittsfield, NH - We Mead to Paint July 30 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - A Visit with CLAWS Aug 6 - Honey Girl Meadery, Durham, NC - Mead Day Aug 6 - Hunters Moon Meadery, Severence, CO - Mead Day Aug 6 - The BottleHouse, Cleveland, OH - Mead Day Aug 6 - Hierophant Meadery, Whidbey Island, WA - Mead Day Aug 6 - Amrita Park Meadery, Winter Mead Festival, Kin Kin, Queensland, Australia - Mead Day Aug 6 - Laurel Highlands Meadery, Greensburg, PA - Mead Day Aug 6 - Wandering Bard Meadery, Greenville, SC - Mead Day Aug 6-7 - B. Nektar Meadery, Ferndale, MI - Mead Day

7-12-22 Tonight we're chatting with Jeremy Kyncl, co-owner of Hierophant Meadery in Washington with Michelle, his wife, with two locations on the Green Bluff loop in Mead, Washington and a tasting room on Whidbey Island. Jeremy and his wife Michelle have a background in herbs and are focused on local-sourcing their mead ingredients and creating a uniquely local product. They love the 'back-to-nature' aspects of mead making, and all the nuances that plants can add to the mix at various stages of growth. Jeremy is a trained herbalist and behind the deliberately crafted lineup of off-dry meads, and uses responsible sourcing practices and regional honey (often from fellow producers who work along the lush Green Bluff farming loop), both playing fundamental roles. Originally from Colorado, Jeremy Kyncl began homebrewing in college. He was making mead, gruit and beer – including saisons, doppelbocks and wormwood-infused ales – when he met his wife, a Central Valley High School graduate who had grown up in Liberty Lake, in 2008. They were both working on bachelor of science degrees in herbal science at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington, where they began to dream of starting a meadery. Michelle Scandalis is an Herbalist, Ayurvedic Practitioner & Meadmaker specializing in ancient herbal preparations and blending techniques. She holds a degree in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University, where she met Jeremy. Her favorite meads to make are complex metheglin styles. She considers the act of making them, "Guerrilla Herbalism," and hopes to bring appreciate of plants back to the human palate. 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows July 26 - Dan Kesterson at Antelope Ridge Mead in Colorado 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 Upcoming Events July 15 - Big Lost Meadery and Brewery, Gillette, WY - Mead and Greet July 16 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Viking Night with mead and cider July 17 - White Winter Winery, Trego, WI - Great Northern Railroad Mead and Cheese Train Ride July 23 - Orpheus Mead Fest Tasting and Awards Ceremony, Golden, CO July 23 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Intermediate Mead Making Class July 27 - Over the Moon Farmstead, Pittsfield, NH - We Mead to Paint July 30 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - A Visit with CLAWS Aug 6 - Honey Girl Meadery, Durham, NC - Mead Day Aug 6 - Hunters Moon Meadery, Severence, CO - Mead Day Aug 6 - The BottleHouse, Cleveland, OH - Mead Day Aug 6 - Hierophant Meadery, Whidbey Island, WA - Mead Day Aug 6 - Amrita Park Meadery, Winter Mead Festival, Kin Kin, Queensland, Australia - Mead Day Aug 6 - Laurel Highlands Meadery, Greensburg, PA - Mead Day Aug 6 - Wandering Bard Meadery, Greenville, SC - Mead Day Aug 6-7 - B. Nektar Meadery, Ferndale, MI - Mead Day Aug 5-7 - Honeypot Meadery, Anaheim, CA - Mead Day weekend Aug 22-23 - American Mead Makers Association - MeadCon 2022 in Baltimore, MD - tickets on sale now! Sept 9-10 - Valkyries Horn Mead Competition, Minneapolis, MN - entries are open now! Sept 13-17 - Mazer Cup International Mead Competition, Kansas City, KS - entries are open now! September 24 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead Day! You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com If you want to get your event on GotMead Live, let us know at gotmead@Gotmead.com 

This week the GCP crew is joined by friend of the show, Ken Carlson. Ken is a PNW writer, director, and author of the comic book mini-series Hellbound Slant 6. The four-issue mini-series chronicles the dangerous exploits of a tough-talking, no-nonsense, street-smart girl named Danielle, who's currently on a quest to escape from hell so she can be by her mother's side before she passes away. He has also written and directed Dead Drift, Penny Palabras, and Roscoe the Junkyard Cat. 01:35 – Justin welcomes Ken to the show, talks about the vintage art walk at The Union Club, and Ken describes the story behind Hellbound Slant 6. He talks about starting the writing of it at an early age, working on the fourth series, and the artists he worked with for the third issue. He talks about where he is at with issue four, the importance of character-building moments in the story, and Justin invites Ken to hand out with them at Crypticon. 15:02 – Ken explains what the film Enter the Mind Dungeon is about, the locations where Dead Drift was filmed, and the innovations in storytelling. Justin presents a new segment hosted by Cosmic Bottles, dives into his first drink selection, and talks about trying pickle flights at Pickles Deli in Whidbey Island. Ken talks about the Troll Haven castle, Justin talks about visiting Hierophant Meadery, and explains the ingredients in the drink. 31:42 – Jeff shares the benefits of marshmallow roots, they give their reviews of the mead they tried, and Justin and Ken express their love of the hammock. Scott talks about the recent burnout he saw in Tacoma, Justin talks about people complaining to the council about it, and the Tacoma mayor getting stuck in one. They talk about how long burnouts have been going on, Jeff asks a coaster question, and Ken talks about the writer that inspired him to start his comic. 45:46 – They discuss how time travel works in books and movies, Justin talks about Nicolas Cage's most recent film, and Scott talks about buying a dinosaur head if he had the chance. They talk about actual billionaire super villains, Justin reflects on the meet raffles at The Rhein Haus, and Ken talks about cool alternative music of the 90s. Thanks, Ken, for re-joining the guys; looking forward to hanging out again soon! Special Guest: Ken Carlson.

4-26-22 Tonight on Gotmead Live, we're talking with Rachel Lipman, owner of Loew Vineyards, in Mt. Airy, Maryland, one of the oldest vineyards in Maryland. The mead production in the Loew family dates back to the mid-1800's in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with a few prominent meaderies and distribution all over Europe. Rachel is one of the youngest winemakers in Maryland (if not the youngest), and she's pushing the boundaries in a male-dominated industry. Rachel is the granddaughter of Wolfgang Loew, and he adopted the name William when he came to the US after World War II, having been the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust, and he did so by being in the Underground. William ended up in Maryland after some time in Indianapolis, and when he arrived, he felt compelled to start making wine at home, remembering his childhood and the smell of the barrels in his family's meadery. He practices and tweaked, and became very well versed in creating a palatable bottle of wine. He kept this up, and when he retired from his 'day job', Bill found a great 37 acre piece of land in Frederick County and planted grapevines. At the time there were only a handful of grape growers and wineries in Maryland. Now the torch has passed to the next generations, and Rachel, the eldest granddaughter, has taken over. Rachel grew up learning about the family history and the winery, and immersed herself in the industry, getting a Bachelor's of Science in Plant Science and a Bachelor's of Arts in Communication. She also studied in France, interned at an organic vineyard in the Loire Valley. She also completed the Washington State University Enology Program. Rachel now manages most aspects of the operations for the vineyard, winery and tasting room. Including winemaking. Rachel makes her families' mead. They have a dry, semi-dry and semi-sweet mead, and make a cyser and a pyment (which has multiple vintages). She spent quite a bit of time uncovering her families mead-making past. While things were shut down during Covid, she dug through Polish documents, magazines and newspapers to learn more about the family business. She learned that her families' meadery was in a district that had warehouses, vodka distilleries, several other meaderies, and a beer garden. Her families' meadery took up an entire city block! At the time in the 1800's when the Loew family were meadmaking, they distributed internationally. And of the ten kids that they had, two of them started meaderies of their own. The rest got into winemaking. One son established the first national meadery and beeswax facility in Poland. He and his wife had three sons, one of which was Wolfgang, Rachel's grandfather. Rachel is now carrying one the family winemaking, and has updated the winery with all new equipment, and is looking to a future of providing her family's wine and mead to the customers of the future. Join us as we talk with Rachel and explore the rich mead (and wine) history she is part of. 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), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows Show links and notes Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events April 28 - Burke Mountain Brew, Springdale, AZ - Mead and Wine Tasting April 28 - ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA - Thirsty Thursday - free 4oz taster with a flight! April 29-May 2 - Bottles and Books, Bristol, UK - Sydney and Eden Bank Holiday Cider and Mead Festival April 29 - Antelope Ridge Mead, Colorado Springs, CO - Mural Unveiling and Cherry Limeade release April 29 - Honey & Hops Brew Works, Front Royal, VA - Music and Mead: featuring the Cold North April 30 - Haley's Honey Meadery, Fredericksburg, VA - Smithing and Mead - Blacksmith and Bladesmith demos April 30 - Gulf Coast Mead Fest, Anahuac, TX - Frascone Winery and Vineyard/Bistro - sample meads from 6 commercial meaderies from the Gulf Coast May 1 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - First Sunday Sound Bath May 1 - Evil Horse Brewing Company, Crete, IL - Mead tasting and pairing with Unpossible Mead and Midwest Meadwerks May 1 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Sunday Sessions: Mead and Music May 1 - Flora de Mel, Rossville, GA - Yoga Mead Up with Meghan Barnard Yoga May 1 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Temecula Momma's Market - Sip and Shop FREE Pop Up Market May 4 - Kingsview Mead, Mount Lebanon, PA - Buzzworthy Trivia Night May 6-8 - Hierophant Meadery, Green Bluff, WA - Mothers Day Meadmosas May 7 - Wildflyer Mead, Navasota, TX - Derby Day Crawfish Boil and a Derby inspired mead May 10 - Battle and Brew, Sandy Springs, GA - Mini's and Mead - mini painting class and Viking Alchemist mead May 14 - Syttende Mai Entertainment Tent, Stoughton, WI - mead tastings from Nottingham Nectar May 14 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - FREE Ae Throwing at the Tasting Room (and mead of course) May 15 - AleCraft Brewery, Bel Air, MD - Mead Making Class May 15 - American Mead Makers Association - Mead Matters Episode 8: Making Mead with Kveik May 15 - Sugarbelt Mead Festival - put on by Manic Meadery, 30+ meaderies from all over the US May 15 - The Build Guild, Fort Wayne, IN - Mead Making Workshop May 19 - KVLT Mead, Tacoma, WA - Solar Haze and Grim Earth playing May 20 - Matthews Living History Farm Museum, Galax, VA - Homestead Class: Beginners Mead Making May 21 - Wyrd Leather and Mead, Portland, OR - Drink Up Me Hearties, Yo Ho! - A Pirate Event May 21 - Cigar City Cider and Mead, Tampa, FL - Cider and Mead Invitational May 21-22 - Honey and Pollination Center, UC Davis, Davis, CA - Mead: Getting Creative May 22 - Manic Meadery, Crown Point, IN - Sugar Belt Mead Festival May 25 - Oppegaard Meadery, Tukwila, WA - Mead Tasting at Mariblu Southcenter - Active Adult Living 55+ May 25 - KingsView Mead & Cider, Lebanon, PA - Lebo Fun Run May 28 - KVLT Mead, Tacoma, WA - Safeword! Kinky Queer Comedy Show Aug 22-23 - American Mead Makers Association - MeadCon 2022 in Baltimore, MD - tickets on sale now! You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com If you want to get your event on GotMead Live, let us know at gotmead@Gotmead.com 

4-27-21 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 next few years. This was partly due to the fact that making a batch of mead took far less hours than brewing a batch of beer, so every time he felt like brewing but didn't have the time, he just made a batch of mead instead. In the beginning, few of them were good but eventually he bought Ken Schramm's book and started upping his game. He started toying with the idea of opening up a meadery around 2014, as there were no other meaderies in Norway at the time. In 2015, he decided to put a crew together and try to materialize my dream. He resigned from being the leader of Bergen Ølfestival, the biggest beer festival in Norway to run the meadery. In the fall of 2016, after a lot of planning and paperwork, Mjøderiet (the name simply means “The Meadery” in Norwegian) was launched as Norway's first meadery. Although it has been quite a struggle being alone in the mead business in Norway, with customers having no realistic notions of what mead is and can be and running our operation small-scale and part-time (except for Benjamin, all of the five people running the meadery have had full time jobs all along), he is pretty happy with what they have achieved. In 2019, they won two gold medals in the first Mead Madness Cup (for “Barrel Aged Meadlife Crisis” and “Julemjød”). They have opened up the beverage market in Norway for the public in terms of mead, with an increasing number of people being conscious about mead as an option on the menu. He also feel really pleased that we have resurrected mead as an ancient cultural drink in Norway – a country that actually has a rather famous historical relationship to it through the viking sagas and era. It's a shame that modern-day Norwegians to a large degree still don't know much about mead, but this is starting to change now, largely due to their efforts and hard labor. Also, two other meaderies (Askheimer and Marlobobo) were launched in 2020 and are doing well, so mead is slowly starting to come back from the veil of history in Norway. Stian is positive and excited about the future of mead in Norway and internationally, as well as the prospects of Mjøderiet. Mead is back, and it's here to stay. Join us on the live chat! 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 May 11 - Jeroen Krikke - Kollektiv Mead - Netherlands May 25 - Kon and Julie Paseschinikoff - Bee Boyzz Honey and Meadery - Manitoba, Canada June 8 - Anders Reising & his partner Jarl- Askheimer Meadery, Norway June 22 - Gert Smet - Blacksmiths Meadery, Belgium Show links and notes Top, Middle and Base Notes: A Comprehensive List The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual - James Green and Ajana Food Pairing website The Flavor Bible The Flavor Matrix - the Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extrordinary Dishes On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Unlock'd - Historical mead recipes Wellcome Mead by Laura Angotti Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Take part in Kevin Meintsma's Hydromel Study - email hydromel@wtibiz.com and he'll send you questions Upcoming Events April 28 - AMMA MeadCon April 29 - Wappu Mead Competition (online) April 30 - Charm City Meadworks - Online Mead Tasting May 7 - Hierophant Meadery, Green Bluff, WA - Meadmosa Mother's Day May 7-8 - Folklore Brewing and Meadery, Dothan, AL - Music: Joseph Brooks May 8 - Blom Meadworks, Ann Arbor, MI - Third Birthday Party!! May 9 - Talon Wine/Meadery of the Rockies, Palisade, CO - Paint and Sip event May 10 - el Bait Shop, Des Moines, IA - Mead Week - Tapping kegs from Schramm's Mead, Moonlight Meadery, B. Nektar, East Grove Farms. Bottle pours from Superstition, Moonlight, Schramm's and more. May 13 - Sweet Rebel Honingwijn, Antwerp, Belgium - Copenhagen Mead tasting May 21-22 - UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center - Mead: Getting Creative May 22 - Sugarbelt Mead Festival - put on by Manic Meadery, Crown Point Indiana June 1 - Leaky Roof Meadery, Buffalo, MO- Open Jam with food vendor Ben's Hotdogs & Brats June 20 - Orchid Cellar Meadery, Middletown, MD - Father's Day Flight of Spice - try their spicy meads July 3 - White Winter Meadery, Cidery and Distillery, Iron River, WI - 25th Anniversary Celebration You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com Got an event you'd like us to mention on GotMead Live? Send us an email at gotmead@gotmead.com and tell us about it!

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12-1-20 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.

12-1-20 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.

Today my guest is mead maker Jeremy Kyncl from Hierophant Meadery where we talk about the meadery and how he makes his award winning metheglin meads (mead made with herbs and spices). Jeremy's wife, Michelle, is also instrumental in recipe building and managing of the meadery. In addition to running Hierophant Meadery, Jeremy and Michelle are herbalists and they incorporate their love for plants into their mead making to create meads that express exquisite aroma and flavor. Listen in as Jeremy also gives some expert tips on how to make high quality metheglin! Hierophant Meadery: hierophantmeadery.com Mead Tasters: meadtasters.com GotMead Live Podcast with Hierophant Meadery: gotmead.com Old Bossa by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Mead and Beer come together on this episode of Good Brews! Co-Host Aaron is back in the Brewdio with Host Adam Boyd and Isaac Joslin. The GB gang is joined by special guests Thomas Croskrey of Bellwether Brewing and Jeremy Kyncl of Hierophant Meadery, who share their knowledge of the "Old World" beverage of the Braggot. They also talk about their upcoming event: Braggotfest - an event where several local breweries will be pouring their own Braggot concoctions. Some mead and braggots are also consumed and discussed, along with a little Brews News. This episode is sweet like honey, so take a listen! More info at: www.goodbrewsradio.com[Music by: www.bensound.com] Play the episode:   

9-20-16 - Today we're talking with Jeremy Kyncl, owner of Hierophant Meadery in Mead, WA. Jeremy and his wife Michelle have a background in herbs and are focused on local-sourcing their mead ingredients and creating a uniquely local product. They love the 'back-to-nature' aspects of mead making, and all the nuances that plants can add to the mix at various stages of growth. We expect to see some unique meads from them! On Back to Basics, Jeremy will be staying on to talk with AJ, Manny, Hamish and I about metheglins. Adding spices and plants to meads is a tradition that goes back as far as mead has been recorded, and the options are limitless. We'll be talking about what works, techniques and some interesting flavor combinations. Join us 9PM ET tonight! (8PM CT/7PM MT/6PM PT) Want to join the conversation, give us a call!! 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. If you want us to tackle your mead making questions, you can send us a question and we'll tackle it online! 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. Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! What we were drinking: AJ - Dave's Bochet… and then the rest of CDB's #3 White Sour Vicky - water tonight Manny - water too because he got hit by the Kracken Hamish - breakfast and coffee Jeremy - Show links and notes: Historical metheglins - A Sip Through Time by Cindy Renfrow Doing your research on herbs - Google Scholar Upcoming Events Mace Meadworks at macemeadworks.com has live music every Saturday night at 250 East Main Street Dayton, Washington 99328[break] Brothers Drake Meadery - ongoing concert events Texas Mead Fest - September 24 Orpheus Mead Fest - Colorado - Oct 1 - entry cut off 9-16 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!  

9-20-16 - Today we're talking with Jeremy Kyncl, owner of Hierophant Meadery in Mead, WA. Jeremy and his wife Michelle have a background in herbs and are focused on local-sourcing their mead ingredients and creating a uniquely local product. They love the 'back-to-nature' aspects of mead making, and all the nuances that plants can add to the mix at various stages of growth. We expect to see some unique meads from them! On Back to Basics, Jeremy will be staying on to talk with AJ, Manny, Hamish and I about metheglins. Adding spices and plants to meads is a tradition that goes back as far as mead has been recorded, and the options are limitless. We'll be talking about what works, techniques and some interesting flavor combinations. Join us 9PM ET tonight! (8PM CT/7PM MT/6PM PT) Want to join the conversation, give us a call!! 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. If you want us to tackle your mead making questions, you can send us a question and we'll tackle it online! 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. Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! What we were drinking: AJ - Dave’s Bochet… and then the rest of CDB’s #3 White Sour Vicky - water tonight Manny - water too because he got hit by the Kracken Hamish - breakfast and coffee Jeremy - Show links and notes: Historical metheglins - A Sip Through Time by Cindy Renfrow Doing your research on herbs - Google Scholar Upcoming Events Mace Meadworks at macemeadworks.com has live music every Saturday night at 250 East Main Street Dayton, Washington 99328[break] Brothers Drake Meadery - ongoing concert events Texas Mead Fest - September 24 Orpheus Mead Fest - Colorado - Oct 1 - entry cut off 9-16 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!  

"Good Brews" goes off the beaten beer path for this episode and ventures into the world of mead. Host Adam Boyd talks with Jeremy Kyncl, co-owner and mazer at Hierophant Meadery in Mead, WA. They discuss the burgeoning mead industry in the U.S. and unique aspects of mead's most important ingredient: honey. More info at: www.kyrs.org/show/good-brews[Theme Music: “TRAVEL LIGHT” by Jason Shaw (http://www.audionautix.com) // Style Profile Music: www.bensound.com] Play the episode:  Your browser does not support this audio