Podcasts about meadmaker

2-25-25 Tonight we're talking with Rob Ratliff, meadmaker and author of “The Big Book of Mead Recipes”, “Let There Be Melomels” and “Let There Be Session Meads”. An experienced meadmaker, Rob has been studying mead and its creative aspects since 2006. He has won multiple awards during competition with his meads at the Annual Mazer Cup International Mead Competition over the years and is regularly sought out for his input on recipe ideas. As a certified BJCP Mead Judge, Robert also enjoys offering pointers to entrants in upcoming competitions.His extensive collection of meads, and meadr ecipes, has been gathered from around the world. A retired soldier (and former sailor), he is a veteran of the Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars, has lived in 7 states, and visited most of the rest. Between his civilian and military careers, he has lived in or travelled to approximately 20 countries spanning the globe. Wherever he goes, he looks for local meads to sample and local mead makers with whom to share his knowledge with and to learn and unique local brewing techniques from. Come and listen and lets talk recipes with Rob!   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 26 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfulness MeadUp 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 8 - Four Brothers Meadery, Festus, MO - JJ Live Music March 9 - The Parched Pug, Libertyville, IL - Mead Making Class March 9 - Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery, Chicago, IL - Cookies and Mead Pairing March 10 - Happy Butts Honey, Watertown, SD - Mead Making Workshop March 12 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex, VT - Mead Series Part 3: Spiced Meads March 13 - Scale and Feather Meadery, Avondale, AZ - Mead and a Medium March 15 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class March 15 - Grimsby Hollow Meadery, Middleville, MI - Drink Mead, Learn Things: Spirit Dragon Jar Workshop March 16 - Harvest Ridge Winery, Toughkenamon, PA - Mead and Cheese Pairing March 22 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! March 23 - Maniacal Meadery, Ypsilanti Township, MI - Michigan Mead Coalition March Meeting April 12 - The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN - 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch! May 17 - Sugarbelt Mead Festival, Crown Pointe, IN - Many meaderies with their wares at this festival - live music, food trucks and more! You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com

2-25-25 Tonight we're talking with Rob Ratliff, meadmaker and author of “The Big Book of Mead Recipes”, “Let There Be Melomels” and “Let There Be Session Meads”. An experienced meadmaker, Rob has been studying mead and its creative aspects since 2006. He has won multiple awards during competition with his meads at the Annual Mazer Cup International Mead Competition over the years and is regularly sought out for his input on recipe ideas. As a certified BJCP Mead Judge, Robert also enjoys offering pointers to entrants in upcoming competitions.His extensive collection of meads, and meadr ecipes, has been gathered from around the world. A retired soldier (and former sailor), he is a veteran of the Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars, has lived in 7 states, and visited most of the rest. Between his civilian and military careers, he has lived in or travelled to approximately 20 countries spanning the globe. Wherever he goes, he looks for local meads to sample and local mead makers with whom to share his knowledge with and to learn and unique local brewing techniques from. Come and listen and lets talk recipes with Rob!   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 26 - Cloud City Modern Mead, Leadville, CO - Mindfulness MeadUp 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 8 - Four Brothers Meadery, Festus, MO - JJ Live Music March 9 - The Parched Pug, Libertyville, IL - Mead Making Class March 9 - Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery, Chicago, IL - Cookies and Mead Pairing March 10 - Happy Butts Honey, Watertown, SD - Mead Making Workshop March 12 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex, VT - Mead Series Part 3: Spiced Meads March 13 - Scale and Feather Meadery, Avondale, AZ - Mead and a Medium

10-8-24 Tonight we're talking with Dominic Roth, a relatively new meadmaker in Australia. Dominic feels he's 'new' in that he thinks there is much more he can learn about making mead. We'll be talking technique, styles, recipes and more! Dominic is a home mead maker in Australia. He started making mead a couple years ago, as a replacement hobby following the birth of his most recent child. A dodgy mead recipe in a cookbook led him to the hobby, and then to more reliable sources! He thoroughly enjoys the 'art and science of mead making'; consuming as much knowledge as possible on the craft, and playing around with different styles, techniques and ingredients. 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: 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 Join us on live chat during the show Upcoming Shows October 22 - Alberto Leyva - Aliens Kaab Mead November 5 - Kristeva Dowling, Stolen Harvest Meadery November 19 - Raul de la Garza - Freya Mead 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 11 - Breeden's Orchard, Mount Juliet, TN - Charcuterie, Mead and Music with Graze Craze Oct 11 - Thistlerock Mead Co,, Charlottesville, VA - Conley Ray and the Joneses live music Oct 12 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead Making 101 Oct 12 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making class Oct 13 - Skal Beer Hall, Seattle, WA - Fall Mead Festival Oc 16 - KingView Meadhouse and Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Oct 17 - Combgrown Mead, Auburn, NY - Mead and Whiskey Cocktail Class with Cellar and Folly Whiskey Company Oct 18 - Apis Mead & Winery, Carnegie, PA - 732 the Electric Duo & Mary Spayd-Armstrong live music Oct 19 - Iron Stone Meadery, Erie, PA - Mead and Bleed Craft Fair and Bleeding Disorder Fundraiser Oct 19 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Blight of Many live music - the Halloween Show! Oct 25 - Windchaser Meadery, Williamsburg, VA - HallowMead Oct 27 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - HallowCHEESE: A Mead and Cheese Pairing Event with the Cheese Lady Nov 2 - Amber Dragon Meadery, Abilene, TX - Meadfest 2024 Nov 2 - MeadKrieger, Loveland, CO - The Sogs live music Nov 2 - Honeytree Meadery, Nashville, TN - Mead Making class Nov 6 - KingView Meadhouse and Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Nov 7 - KingView Meadhouse & Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Day One acoustic music Nov 8 - Adesanya Mead & Microbrewery, Grandville, MI - TYFYS (Thank You For Your Service) Mead Release with Talohns Out Honor Flight and Mosher Family Apiary 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 

10-8-24 Tonight we're talking with Dominic Roth, a relatively new meadmaker in Australia. Dominic feels he's 'new' in that he thinks there is much more he can learn about making mead. We'll be talking technique, styles, recipes and more! Dominic is a home mead maker in Australia. He started making mead a couple years ago, as a replacement hobby following the birth of his most recent child. A dodgy mead recipe in a cookbook led him to the hobby, and then to more reliable sources! He thoroughly enjoys the 'art and science of mead making'; consuming as much knowledge as possible on the craft, and playing around with different styles, techniques and ingredients. 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: 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 Join us on live chat during the show Upcoming Shows October 22 - Alberto Leyva - Aliens Kaab Mead November 5 - Kristeva Dowling, Stolen Harvest Meadery November 19 - Raul de la Garza - Freya Mead 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 11 - Breeden's Orchard, Mount Juliet, TN - Charcuterie, Mead and Music with Graze Craze Oct 11 - Thistlerock Mead Co,, Charlottesville, VA - Conley Ray and the Joneses live music Oct 12 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Mead Making 101 Oct 12 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary and Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making class Oct 13 - Skal Beer Hall, Seattle, WA - Fall Mead Festival Oc 16 - KingView Meadhouse and Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Oct 17 - Combgrown Mead, Auburn, NY - Mead and Whiskey Cocktail Class with Cellar and Folly Whiskey Company Oct 18 - Apis Mead & Winery, Carnegie, PA - 732 the Electric Duo & Mary Spayd-Armstrong live music Oct 19 - Iron Stone Meadery, Erie, PA - Mead and Bleed Craft Fair and Bleeding Disorder Fundraiser Oct 19 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Blight of Many live music - the Halloween Show! Oct 25 - Windchaser Meadery, Williamsburg, VA - HallowMead Oct 27 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - HallowCHEESE: A Mead and Cheese Pairing Event with the Cheese Lady Nov 2 - Amber Dragon Meadery, Abilene, TX - Meadfest 2024 Nov 2 - MeadKrieger, Loveland, CO - The Sogs live music Nov 2 - Honeytree Meadery, Nashville, TN - Mead Making class Nov 6 - KingView Meadhouse and Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night Nov 7 - KingView Meadhouse & Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Day One acoustic music Nov 8 - Adesanya Mead & Microbrewery, Grandville, MI - TYFYS (Thank You For Your Service) Mead Release with Talohns Out Honor Flight and Mosher Family Apiary 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 

Herlinda and Josh. Our guest today on Brew Ha Ha is Heidrun Meadery head meadmaker Josh McCarthy. The Heidrun is the name of a mythical viking goat. Mead is the oldest alcohol in the world, brewed with honey. Heidrun takes the still fermented mead and then turns it into a sparkling beverage using the traditional champagne method. They are the only meadery that we know of so far that does champagne mead. Honey is very sweet, Josh explains. They add water to the honey to dilute it to the sugar proportion desired, and they also remove other parts like wax. Then they chill it down and handle it like wine. The bubbles are done the same way as in traditional champagne. The only difference is the ingredient they start with. The mead is able to carry flavors of the forage that the bees covered, so you can taste radish blossom, carrot blossom and more in the mead. They do brut naturel, so they are bone dry. See our sponsor Victory House at Poppy Bank Epicenter online, for their latest viewing and menu options. Hawaiian Christmas Berry They also have an estate at Point Reyes Station, and they collect honey there. They also bring in honeys from around the world. This honey comes from Hawaii. Josh points out that whatever flavors come from the honey are the only flavors in the finished product. They never add any other flavors, just the honey itself. Their small community of bees includes feral hives and domestic hives. They don't like yellowjackets which come and destroy the hive. Herlinda reminds us, don't use Round-Up which takes out the good bugs too. Honey, water and yeast make mead. Josh explains, they start like beer but treat it like wine. Russian River Brewing Co. is open in Santa Rosa on 4th St. and at their big Windsor location. Visit their website for up-to-date hours, menus, beers and more. They use the same fermenting yeast that champagne producers use. It does not impart any of its own flavor. They ferment about 10 days for the wine to get through fermentation. Then they do a natural settling process, four to six or eight weeks, depending on the honey. Each variety is very different. Their tasting room is located in a greenhouse and it is a nice visit. There are many flowering plants that are for the bees, and you can taste the garden in your glass. Every wine they make is 12.5% ABV, which is the same as sparkling wine.

From Ep 159: Yearning for another big player in the mead market In this episode, we bring to you another gem in the city of St. Albans, Vermont. For over 10 years now,  Kelly and Ricky Klein have been building a mead market from scratch. With brews available in 44 states, the Groennfell brand has been the gateway into the wonderful flavors of honey-based alcohols for many craft drink lovers. In this interview, Ricky the Meadmaker talks about how the meadery is bringing back in-person events and international collabs in the works. All Beer Inside is a podcast by and for craft beer lovers. We travel near and far to sample the best brews and meet fellow aficionados. Drink craft, not crap! Please like, share, comment, subscribe and hit that notification bell! Meads tasted:- Valkyrie's Choice- Vanir- Buckland Mead- Old Wayfarer Groennfell Meadery650 Industrial Park Rd, St. Albans, VermontWebsite, Instagram, Facebook All Beer Inside:Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Untappd: @allbeerinside The video portion of this interview can be found here Search for All Beer Inside in all your favorite apps. #CraftBeer #CraftBeerLove #DrinkCraftNotCrap #interview #Groennfell

From Ep 159: Yearning for another big player in the mead market In this episode, we bring to you another gem in the city of St. Albans, Vermont. For over 10 years now,  Kelly and Ricky Klein have been building a mead market from scratch. With brews available in 44 states, the Groennfell brand has been the gateway into the wonderful flavors of honey-based alcohols for many craft drink lovers. In this interview, Ricky the Meadmaker talks about how the meadery is bringing back in-person events and international collabs in the works. All Beer Inside is a podcast by and for craft beer lovers. We travel near and far to sample the best brews and meet fellow aficionados. Drink craft, not crap! Please like, share, comment, subscribe and hit that notification bell! Meads tasted: - Valkyrie's Choice - Vanir - Buckland Mead - Old Wayfarer Groennfell Meadery 650 Industrial Park Rd, St. Albans, Vermont Website, Instagram, Facebook All Beer Inside: Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Untappd: @allbeerinside The video portion of this interview can be found here Search for All Beer Inside in all your favorite apps. #CraftBeer #CraftBeerLove #DrinkCraftNotCrap #interview #Groennfell

11-29-22 Tonight we're chatting it up with Manny Elgarresta, friend, mead maker, previous co-host on Gotmead Live and denizen of Miami. Manny has been making mead for quite a while, and has even converted his garage to making mead, enhancing it so he could make mead and beer in the Miami heat. He has cooling systems, freezers as fermentation enclosures and has even decorated his mead cave with a ton of Star Wars memorabilia, much of it due to late nights with mead on Ebay and other sales sites. Manny Elgarresta is a native New Yorker now residing in Miami Beach,  who got into homebrew after moving to Miami in 1987 and finding that the variety of beers was limited to Budweiser and Coors with some exotics like Beck's.  After the craft beer boom made beer brewing kind of moot, he looked for a new way to use his fermenter and found mead.  For a little over 10 years he's been trying to perfect a high heat traditional, making gallons of JAOM for the holidays and annoying gotmead podcasters with yeast questions. Special for tonight, our last show of 2022, Manny has obtained 10 *gallons* of rare Florida Keys mangrove honey, and another 5 gallons of Keys wildflower honey. 180 pounds of rare, organic, unprocessed honey. And here at GotMead Live, Manny is offering these honeys to 10 special folks, to make a really special mead. We will be choosing talented mead makers from our faithful listeners to get a gallon of honey, and make a special mead from it. We intend to feature those meads on GotMead social media and here on GotMead Live in the spring. The rules are simple: receive the honey (there will be shipping costs, Manny is giving the honey for free) create a mead that showcases the honey post to Gotmead (social and/or forum) the recipe and technique be willing to come on the show later to discuss what you did, why you decided the approach you took, and how it turned out be willing to get a bottle (can be like a 375) to us on GML so we can enjoy it with you! (and cheer your mead) So join us tonight to talk meadmaking, combatting the heat, varietal honeys and other great meadmaking info! 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 We are off for December, see you January 10! 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 Dec 1 - Hierophant Mead, Mead, WA - Spokane Valley Winter Market Dec 2 - Bragging Rooster Beer & Mead, Warrenton, NC - Live music by the Mary Selvidge Band Dec 3 - For You Brewing Supplies, Terre Haute, IN - Mead Competition Dec 3 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Community Solstice Party, including Ugly Sweater Day and the return of Coffee Mead! Dec 3 - Gladheart Wine & Brews, Roanoke, VA - Kinnfolk Mead and Cocktails - music by Kinnfolk Dec 4 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - December First Sunday Sound Bath

11-29-22 Tonight we're chatting it up with Manny Elgarresta, friend, mead maker, previous co-host on Gotmead Live and denizen of Miami. Manny has been making mead for quite a while, and has even converted his garage to making mead, enhancing it so he could make mead and beer in the Miami heat. He has cooling systems, freezers as fermentation enclosures and has even decorated his mead cave with a ton of Star Wars memorabilia, much of it due to late nights with mead on Ebay and other sales sites. Manny Elgarresta is a native New Yorker now residing in Miami Beach,  who got into homebrew after moving to Miami in 1987 and finding that the variety of beers was limited to Budweiser and Coors with some exotics like Beck's.  After the craft beer boom made beer brewing kind of moot, he looked for a new way to use his fermenter and found mead.  For a little over 10 years he's been trying to perfect a high heat traditional, making gallons of JAOM for the holidays and annoying gotmead podcasters with yeast questions. Special for tonight, our last show of 2022, Manny has obtained 10 *gallons* of rare Florida Keys mangrove honey, and another 5 gallons of Keys wildflower honey. 180 pounds of rare, organic, unprocessed honey. And here at GotMead Live, Manny is offering these honeys to 10 special folks, to make a really special mead. We will be choosing talented mead makers from our faithful listeners to get a gallon of honey, and make a special mead from it. We intend to feature those meads on GotMead social media and here on GotMead Live in the spring. The rules are simple: receive the honey (there will be shipping costs, Manny is giving the honey for free) create a mead that showcases the honey post to Gotmead (social and/or forum) the recipe and technique be willing to come on the show later to discuss what you did, why you decided the approach you took, and how it turned out be willing to get a bottle (can be like a 375) to us on GML so we can enjoy it with you! (and cheer your mead) So join us tonight to talk meadmaking, combatting the heat, varietal honeys and other great meadmaking info! 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 We are off for December, see you January 10! 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 Dec 1 - Hierophant Mead, Mead, WA - Spokane Valley Winter Market Dec 2 - Bragging Rooster Beer & Mead, Warrenton, NC - Live music by the Mary Selvidge Band Dec 3 - For You Brewing Supplies, Terre Haute, IN - Mead Competition Dec 3 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Community Solstice Party, including Ugly Sweater Day and the return of Coffee Mead! Dec 3 - Gladheart Wine & Brews, Roanoke, VA - Kinnfolk Mead and Cocktails - music by Kinnfolk Dec 4 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - December First Sunday Sound Bath Dec 4 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - Holiday Pop Up Market Dec 5 - Bryant's Dry Cider, Richmond, VA - Magic and Mead Mondays Dec 5 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Mead and Magic Monday Dec 7 - Over the Moon Farmstead, Pittsfield, NH - December Book Club - The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister Dec 7 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Mead Hall Trivia Dec 8 - Wildflyer Mead, Navasota, TX - Book Club - The Overdue Life of Amy Byler Dec 9 - Texas Heathen Mead Contest - For bragging rights for the poets portion in Texas - Bastrop State Park Dec 9 - Wildflyer Mead, Navasota, TX - Live Music - Logan McCune and Mary Brett Dec 10 - Old Station Honey and Mead, New Sarepta, Alberta, CN - Jingle and Mingle - Mead tasting, snacks, desserts and local artisans and vendors Dec 10 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - 12th Annual Holiday Open House - mead and vendors with gifts! Dec 10 - Raging Cider & Mead, San Marcos, CA - A Raging Holiday Market - mead and a number of vendors Dec 10 - Hunters Moon Meadery, Severance, CO - Mead Anniversary Open House Dec 10 - Old Station Honey and Mead, New Sarepta, Alberta, Canada - Jingle and Mingle - mead, tours, snacks, desserts and gifts! Dec 10 - KingView Mead, Mount Lebanon, PA - First Year Anniversary Celebration Dec 10 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Planet Thunder Live! Dec 11 - Obscurity Brewing and Craft Mead, Elburn, IL - Kris Kringle Market with dozens of vendors Dec 18 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Temecula Holiday Artisan Market Sip and Shop! Dec 21 - Wyrd Leather and Mead, Portland, OR - Wyrd Winter Solstice 2022 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 

Ricky the Meadmaker of Groennfell and Havoc meaderies joins James and Steve on Mead Day Eve to chat about their favorite honey beverages.

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 

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

Join Travis and me as we discuss the transition from "nerd" to community builder by following his passion to establish Wyrd Leather & Mead and building a community for the friends of "middle earth" while welcoming all.  Shout out by Travis to Mr. Fell and the entire professional Wyrd Leather & Mead family. Season 2:  MB 6 - 3 OV ("Both" selected 3/5 of the time) Season 1:  MB 12 - 4 OV Appearances by Class: 2016 = 1, 2012 = 1, 2011 = 3 2009 = 5, 2008 = 2, 2007 = 1, 2006 = 1, 2005 = 1, 2003 = 2, 2000 = 1 1994 = 1 Appearance by Gender: Female identifying - 12 Male identifying - 10

11-26-19 Tonight we're talking with Annie Zipser and Amy Olsen, Annie and Amy are both award winning home mead makers, and are now involved with the Michigan Mead Coalition. The Michigan Mead Coalition is a group of meadmakers who are looking to create a shared environment where they can talk mead, share their skills, and even have shared equipment and supply buys. We'll be talking more about that in the show. We'll also talk meadmaking, things we've learned, and generally just geek out on meadmaking. More about Annie: Annie Zipser has been making mead for about 6 ½ years now. She started making mead because so many excellent meads were being offered to her at Ann Arbor Brewer's Guild meetings (that she was attending because her husband is a homebrewer). The Guild has a large mead presence and Annie has always felt very lucky that she had so many excellent resources in her learning experience. She joined Fermenta, a group focused on women in the fermenting world, and through a Fermenta scholarship took the BJCP mead exam. Annie retired from teaching in 2016…and working at Adventures in Homebrewing provided a great springboard into retirement activities. While working there she presented seminars and classes about mead, got to teach people about mead, and connected to the larger mead world. Since getting her BJCP ranking, Annie has been judging at the National Homebrew Competition and the Mazer Cup along with the Michigan Beer Cup and the Michigan Mead Cup. Going to the Mazer Cup to judge led her to going to the AMMA conference as a volunteer. This has since led to being on the planning committee for the conference. She is also on the planning committee for the Michigan Mead Cup and is one of the organizers of the AMMA presence at HomebrewCon. She is currently on the Home Governing Board (AMMA) where she serves as secretary. Her newest activity is the Michigan Mead Coalition where she serves as event coordinator. Michigan is a great state for mead makers and the Michigan Mead Coalition hopes to bring meadmakers together the same way that a homebrew club brings brewers together. Annie is a self professed “mead geek” and is having a great time letting her hobby be her retirement career! And some info on Amy: Have you ever had a conversation with a total stranger that changed the course of your life? That is what happened to me nearly 5 years ago. I was having a beer after work at Kuhnhenn Brewing in Warren, MI; and making conversation with other people at the bar. Some random small talk turned into a fairly in-depth conversation about flavor and my new friend asked me that life changing question..."Have you ever considered making mead”? Long story short, the gentleman at the bar turned out to be Frank Retell, the mead maker at Kuhnhenn Brewing. I was extremely fortunate to have a very experienced and talented mead maker show me how to make mead, let me ask a million questions and allow me to work with him on several batches that were released at the brewery. I was hooked! I am a classically trained chef by trade. I now teach culinary arts, baking and pastry arts and run a restaurant in my school district. So, food and flavor are a huge part of my life and background. Mead seemed like a very logical and natural progression. Within a year I was making solo batches at home. My family and friends were very supportive, but they pretty much would tell me that they liked it and drank a lot. I wanted some impartial feedback and constructive criticism. So I entered my first competition; The Michigan Mead Cup in 2014. I earned a gold medal and won Best of Show with my very first entry. It was Michigan wildflower honey with Medjool dates, black mission figs, and sultanas…all desert fruits. I called it A Gift to the Khaleesi. That's pretty much where things got started. I have continued to make mead and enter competitions. Since then, I have earned several gold, silver, bronze and honorable mentions at numerous competitions around the country. As well as 4-AHA National Home Brewers Competition 1st round ribbons, and 7 Mazer Cups. 2 of which were for the special Digby category…It's kind of fun to say that I am the only person to have ever won in that category. 2019 has been very good to me. I won Best of Show at the Great Northern Brew Ha Ha, and at the Mid-Winter Homebrew Competition I won Best of Show and The Meadmaker's choice award. I'll have the honor of having one of my meads produced by Moonlight Meadery as the prize for that ProAm. This hobby has been a fabulous addition to my life. I have attended 2 MeadCons, 3 Mazer Cup International competitions, 2 AHA Conferences, took 2 classes at UC Davis, got elected to the AMMA Home Brew Committee, became a BJCP Mead Judge, joined the Michigan Mead Coalition and was recently voted in as the Vice President, went on a huge mead-centric road trip this summer and I have had the honor of meeting some absolutely amazing people. I am very grateful for all that I have learned and I am looking forward to having the time to put some of that knowledge into practice, improve my craft and make more mead this year. 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. Show links and notes Wine Folly Master Guide Scott Labs 2019 Yeast Book Scott Labs searchable yeast selection Sure lie and Bâtonnage (lees contact and stirring) Sur Lie additive SO2 Management SO2 Management Protocols Acuvin Quick SO2 test Evoak - Oak Solutions Black Swan Barrels (exotic woods) Ethiopian Spice Market (for gesho) Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Are You Afraid of the Rum: And Other Cocktails for 90's Kids by Sam Slaughter Upcoming Guests We are off until January 7! Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays! Upcoming Events Nov 27 - Brothers Drake Meadery - Jazz Wednesday with Ryan Folger Dec 6 - Tugwell Creek Honey Farm - Pinot Girls Series: Honey and Mead Dec 6 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Holiday Karaoke Dec 7 - Schramm's Mead, Ferndale, MI - Holiday Gala Dec 7 - Bos Meadery, Madison, WI - Music - Johnny Likes Noize Dec 8 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Mead Club Holiday Party Dec 12 - Strad Meadery, Sacramento, CA - Paint and Sip Dec 13 - Oran Mor Artisan Mead, Roseburg, OR - Yule with Winter Dance (Scottish step dancing!) Dec 13-14 - Brimming Horn Meadery, DE - Debut at Decibel Magazine Metal and Beer Fest, LA Dec 14 - Strad Meadery, Sacramento, CA- Yule Gathering and Viking Feast 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!

9-17-19 9PM EST: Tonight we're talking with women who make mead. Award winning, bitching good meadmaking women. We're talking with Traci Kuhfuss and Amy Olsen. If you've been paying attention, these ladies are tearing it up out there with their meads. Traci Kuhfuss comes to us from Texas by way of Arizona and Hawaii. She's been active as a homebrewer and mead maker for many years, participating in brew clubs and competitions in all the places she's lived. Traci is a professional photographer and print 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. In 2006 her orange blossom special mead took BOS at the Great Arizona Homebrew competition. over all the other beers, ciders and mead. Traci is running the Texas Mead Competition this year, and it looks like it's going to be a great event. Amy Olsen lives in the Detroit area. She's a classically trained chef, and teaches culinary arts now. She's obviously a big fan of food and flavor as a result. Around 5 years ago, she was grabbing a beer at a local brewery, and ended up meeting Frank Retell, the mead maker at Kuhnhenn Brewing in an in-depth conversation about flavors. They hit it off, and Amy was on her way to be a mead maker. Frank helped her, and she even got to help make meads with him at Kuhnhenn. Within a year she was makoing mead at home, and her family and friends loved it and encouraged her to keep it up. She made the next jump to competitions because she wanted to get some experienced feedback and constructive criticism. Her first comp was the Michigan Mead Cup in 2014. She got a gold medal and best of show her first time out with a Michigan wildflower mead with Medjool dates, black mission figs and sultanas, calling it ‘A Gift to the Khaleesi'. She's continued to make mead and enter competitions. She's claimed a number of medals at comps around the country, and has 4 AHA National Home Brew Competition first round ribbons and 7 Mazer Cups, including 2 in the Digby category (that is historic recipes from Sir Kenelm Digby's Closet Unlock'd, a special MCI category). She's won BoS at the Great Northern Brew Ha Ha and BoS and Meadmaker's Choice awards at Mid-Winter Homebrew comp. Amy says that making mead has been a fabulous addition to her life. She's been to 2 MeadCons, 3 Mazer Cup comps, taken classes at UC Davis, got elected to the AMMA Home Brew Committee, became a BJCP judge, joined the Michigan Mead Coalition and took a huge mead-centric trip this summer, getting to meet some pretty awesome folks and drink a lot of great mead. Both Traci and Amy are looking forward to making even more and better meads as they continue to hone their craft. 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. Show links and notes Evoak - Oak Solutions Black Swan Barrels (exotic woods) Ethiopian Spice Market (for gesho) Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Are You Afraid of the Rum: And Other Cocktails for 90's Kids by Sam Slaughter Upcoming Events Sept 18 - Monks Mead - Meet the Meadmaker at Savannah Bee Company Sept 18 - Hierophant Mead and Ethereal Mead - Save the Bees Fundraiser Sept 21 - Crafted Artisan Meadery - Canal Park Festival of Beers Sept 21 - Rebel Hive Meadery - West Reading Fall Festival Sept 21 - Royal Manor - Mead Festival Sept 22 - Recolte Meads - Kevin's Song Fundraiser Sept 22 - Starrlight Mead - Mead Day Celebration and Fall Festival Sept 22 - Michigan Mead Cup - entries open Sept 26 - Golden Coast Mead - Monthly Meading and Homebrew Share Sept 27-28 Superstition Meadery - 2019 Darkness Day Sept 28 - Orpheus Meadfest - Tasting and Award Ceremony for Orpheus Cup Mead Competition Sept 28 - Texas Mead Cup entry deadline Oct 3 - Folklore Brewing - Pints and Paints - Dothan, AL Oct 5-5 and 12-13 - Stonekeep Meadery - Artisan Wine and Cheese pairing weekends Oct 6 - Starrlight Mead - 29th Annual A Tasteful Affair Oct 6 - Great Kiwi Mead Group - First ever New Zealand Mead Up at Remuera in Auckland - Contact Adam via the link here Oct 18 - Woodstone Creek Winery and Distillery - Friday Night Flight - Wine, Mead and Spirits Oct 19 - Texas Mead Fest  Oct 19 - Starrlight Meadery - Beginning Home Mead Making Class Oct 26-27 Festina Lente - Hallow-Wine treats 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!

9-17-19 9PM EST: Tonight we're talking with women who make mead. Award winning, bitching good meadmaking women. We're talking with Traci Kuhfuss and Amy Olsen. If you've been paying attention, these ladies are tearing it up out there with their meads. Traci Kuhfuss comes to us from Texas by way of Arizona and Hawaii. She’s been active as a homebrewer and mead maker for many years, participating in brew clubs and competitions in all the places she’s lived. Traci is a professional photographer and print 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. In 2006 her orange blossom special mead took BOS at the Great Arizona Homebrew competition. over all the other beers, ciders and mead. Traci is running the Texas Mead Competition this year, and it looks like it's going to be a great event. Amy Olsen lives in the Detroit area. She’s a classically trained chef, and teaches culinary arts now. She’s obviously a big fan of food and flavor as a result. Around 5 years ago, she was grabbing a beer at a local brewery, and ended up meeting Frank Retell, the mead maker at Kuhnhenn Brewing in an in-depth conversation about flavors. They hit it off, and Amy was on her way to be a mead maker. Frank helped her, and she even got to help make meads with him at Kuhnhenn. Within a year she was makoing mead at home, and her family and friends loved it and encouraged her to keep it up. She made the next jump to competitions because she wanted to get some experienced feedback and constructive criticism. Her first comp was the Michigan Mead Cup in 2014. She got a gold medal and best of show her first time out with a Michigan wildflower mead with Medjool dates, black mission figs and sultanas, calling it ‘A Gift to the Khaleesi’. She’s continued to make mead and enter competitions. She’s claimed a number of medals at comps around the country, and has 4 AHA National Home Brew Competition first round ribbons and 7 Mazer Cups, including 2 in the Digby category (that is historic recipes from Sir Kenelm Digby’s Closet Unlock’d, a special MCI category). She’s won BoS at the Great Northern Brew Ha Ha and BoS and Meadmaker’s Choice awards at Mid-Winter Homebrew comp. Amy says that making mead has been a fabulous addition to her life. She’s been to 2 MeadCons, 3 Mazer Cup comps, taken classes at UC Davis, got elected to the AMMA Home Brew Committee, became a BJCP judge, joined the Michigan Mead Coalition and took a huge mead-centric trip this summer, getting to meet some pretty awesome folks and drink a lot of great mead. Both Traci and Amy are looking forward to making even more and better meads as they continue to hone their craft. 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 Black Swan Barrels (exotic woods) Ethiopian Spice Market (for gesho) Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff

Glenn Lavender, Meadmaker and owner of Silver Hand Meadery, joins Williamsburg Winery's Vice President of Marketing, Michael Kimball, and Williamsburg Winery Winemaker, Matthew Meyer to discuss all of the buzz surrounding mead, the world’s most ancient fermented beverage. Disclaimer: All views and opinions expressed are those of the guest and not of the Williamsburg Winery or its affiliates.

Ricky the Meadmaker from Groennfell Meadery in Vermont talks about an article detailing his techniques that was deeemed "too controversial" to print.

On this episode of Chew Diligence, co-hosts Lindsay Shively and Jill Silva are talking fermentation of a different kind with CEO and Meadmaker of Kaw Point Meadery Daniel Bauer and Sean Galloway from the Brewkery.

 11-28-17 This is our last show of 2017! We go on our December break after this, and will return in January with new, fantastic shows! To finish 2017, we will be talking with Steve Fletty, two time Meadmaker of the Year at the National Homebrew Competition, and a member of the St. Paul Homebrew Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fletty has also won two Minnesota State Fair Best of Show awards (for a Russian Imperial Stout and Saison), as well as 2009 Midwest Homebrewer of the Year. While he enjoys brewing beer and making cider, mead is his serious passion. Fletty has been making mead since 2002, when he was introduced to it at a Beer Judge Certification Program study class. “Even though mead wasn't yet a part of the exam, we did a mead tasting night with 60 meads, not kidding,” he said. “Most sucked, but two of them blew my mind. I thought, ‘I need to make that!'” One was a mesquite chipotle mead—Fletty convinced the guy who made it to divulge his secrets, and he went on to win medals with his own version. The other was a commercial pyment (fermented with a blend of honey and grapes/grape juice). Fletty's research and hard work to replicate it won him his first Meadmaker of the Year award in 2007. In 2016, he won his second honor as Meadmaker of the Year, in large part because of his Best of Show mead called Holy Cacao, a specialty mead made with cacao nibs, Dutch cocoa, and vanilla bean. You want to come to this show. Listen in live below!! Send your questions to us at gotmeadlive@gotmead.com or ping me on Facebook. Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Groenfell Meadery recipes and techniques Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation by Chris White UC Davis Honey Flavor Wheel Journal of Enolgy and Viticulture How to Brew - John Palmer The Flavor Bible Let There Be Melomels (on sale) by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes  (on sale) by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events November 30 - Western Reserve Meadery - Chocolate Truffle Making with the Nom November 30 - Bos Meadery - Johnny Widdicombe December 1 - Superstition Meadery - Mead and Music at Ground Control December 2 - St. Ambrose Meadery - Whiskey Charmers December 3 - Starrlight Meadery - A Very Fairy Christmas December 7 - Colony Meadery - An Evening of Sweet Shimmies (Belly Dancing) with Carmen December 8 - 810 Meadworks - Christmas Pajama Party December 9 - Schramm's Mead - Gala Holiday Party at Assaggi Bistro December 16 - Melovino Meadery - Ugly Sweater Party 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!

 11-28-17 This is our last show of 2017! We go on our December break after this, and will return in January with new, fantastic shows! To finish 2017, we will be talking with Steve Fletty, two time Meadmaker of the Year at the National Homebrew Competition, and a member of the St. Paul Homebrew Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fletty has also won two Minnesota State Fair Best of Show awards (for a Russian Imperial Stout and Saison), as well as 2009 Midwest Homebrewer of the Year. While he enjoys brewing beer and making cider, mead is his serious passion. Fletty has been making mead since 2002, when he was introduced to it at a Beer Judge Certification Program study class. “Even though mead wasn’t yet a part of the exam, we did a mead tasting night with 60 meads, not kidding,” he said. “Most sucked, but two of them blew my mind. I thought, ‘I need to make that!’” One was a mesquite chipotle mead—Fletty convinced the guy who made it to divulge his secrets, and he went on to win medals with his own version. The other was a commercial pyment (fermented with a blend of honey and grapes/grape juice). Fletty’s research and hard work to replicate it won him his first Meadmaker of the Year award in 2007. In 2016, he won his second honor as Meadmaker of the Year, in large part because of his Best of Show mead called Holy Cacao, a specialty mead made with cacao nibs, Dutch cocoa, and vanilla bean. You want to come to this show. Listen in live below!! Send your questions to us at gotmeadlive@gotmead.com or ping me on Facebook. Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Groenfell Meadery recipes and techniques Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation by Chris White UC Davis Honey Flavor Wheel Journal of Enolgy and Viticulture How to Brew - John Palmer The Flavor Bible Let There Be Melomels (on sale) by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes  (on sale) by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events November 30 - Western Reserve Meadery - Chocolate Truffle Making with the Nom November 30 - Bos Meadery - Johnny Widdicombe December 1 - Superstition Meadery - Mead and Music at Ground Control December 2 - St. Ambrose Meadery - Whiskey Charmers December 3 - Starrlight Meadery - A Very Fairy Christmas December 7 - Colony Meadery - An Evening of Sweet Shimmies (Belly Dancing) with Carmen December 8 - 810 Meadworks - Christmas Pajama Party December 9 - Schramm's Mead - Gala Holiday Party at Assaggi Bistro December 16 - Melovino Meadery - Ugly Sweater Party 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!

7-18-17 Tonight we're talking with Scott Schaar, 2017 NHC Meadmaker of the Year. Scott and his wife Karen were watching a viking movie in about 2000, and they were drinking mead in the movie. Scott and Karen were intrigued, so they hunted down a commercial mead to try. They decided that it was pretty interesting, but thought they could make a better mead themselves. The result was raspberry mead on the ceiling, and they were hooked! Scot has been meadmaking since 2001?? He has multiple Mead BOS including MidWinter, Kansas City Biermeister's comp, Domras Cup. Several Mazer Cup placings, multiple Mead Free or Die Placings, 2015 East Coast Mead Maker of the Year and 2017 AHA Mead Maker of the Year. Recipes scaled up by Prairie Rose Meadery and Moonlight Meadery. Past distiller at Mississippi River Distilling Company and current Head Brewer at Crawford Brew Works. Come hang out with us tonight while we talk with Scott about the meads he's made, and what he's learned in 17 years of making meads. Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Bladderwrack Seaweed - http://www.seaweed.ie/descriptions/fucus_vesiculosus.php Vanilla Beans - Beanilla Entries are open for competition at the Eltham and District Wine Guild Oak and Mead - Petar Bakulic Titrets sulfite testing kit The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events St. Ambrose Cellars - Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM) Meridian Hive Meadery - last Friday of every month - Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room 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!

7-18-17 Tonight we're talking with Scott Schaar, 2017 NHC Meadmaker of the Year. Scott and his wife Karen were watching a viking movie in about 2000, and they were drinking mead in the movie. Scott and Karen were intrigued, so they hunted down a commercial mead to try. They decided that it was pretty interesting, but thought they could make a better mead themselves. The result was raspberry mead on the ceiling, and they were hooked! Scot has been meadmaking since 2001?? He has multiple Mead BOS including MidWinter, Kansas City Biermeister’s comp, Domras Cup. Several Mazer Cup placings, multiple Mead Free or Die Placings, 2015 East Coast Mead Maker of the Year and 2017 AHA Mead Maker of the Year. Recipes scaled up by Prairie Rose Meadery and Moonlight Meadery. Past distiller at Mississippi River Distilling Company and current Head Brewer at Crawford Brew Works. Come hang out with us tonight while we talk with Scott about the meads he's made, and what he's learned in 17 years of making meads. Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Bladderwrack Seaweed - http://www.seaweed.ie/descriptions/fucus_vesiculosus.php Vanilla Beans - Beanilla Entries are open for competition at the Eltham and District Wine Guild Oak and Mead - Petar Bakulic Titrets sulfite testing kit The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events St. Ambrose Cellars - Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM) Meridian Hive Meadery - last Friday of every month - Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room 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!

6-20-17 Bobby Slanz is back on Gotmead Live! In our continuing conversation with amazing mead makers, we're bringing him back to talk shop about making awesome mead. Along the way we're going to dig into what he's been working on, and talk some more about the seaweed mead he makes that is becoming the talk of the mead world, and creating a splash whenever it turns up. At some point, I really want to try this, since I wasn't fast enough at the Mazer Cup to get some! Bob likes to play with unusual ingredients, and his meads are, from all accounts, pretty damn fantastic. So let's dig into the methods he uses to make such tasty and interesting meads! Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Bladderwrack Seaweed - http://www.seaweed.ie/descriptions/fucus_vesiculosus.php Vanilla Beans - Beanilla Entries are open for competition at the Eltham and District Wine Guild Oak and Mead - Petar Bakulic Titrets sulfite testing kit The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events St. Ambrose Cellars - Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM) Meridian Hive Meadery - last Friday of every month - Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room 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!

6-20-17 Bobby Slanz is back on Gotmead Live! In our continuing conversation with amazing mead makers, we're bringing him back to talk shop about making awesome mead. Along the way we're going to dig into what he's been working on, and talk some more about the seaweed mead he makes that is becoming the talk of the mead world, and creating a splash whenever it turns up. At some point, I really want to try this, since I wasn't fast enough at the Mazer Cup to get some! Bob likes to play with unusual ingredients, and his meads are, from all accounts, pretty damn fantastic. So let's dig into the methods he uses to make such tasty and interesting meads! Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Bladderwrack Seaweed - http://www.seaweed.ie/descriptions/fucus_vesiculosus.php Vanilla Beans - Beanilla Entries are open for competition at the Eltham and District Wine Guild Oak and Mead - Petar Bakulic Titrets sulfite testing kit The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events St. Ambrose Cellars - Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM) Meridian Hive Meadery - last Friday of every month - Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room 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!

6-6-17 Tonight we're looking forward to talking with Tom Repas. Tom is a soft-spoken guy, and seems quiet and retiring. What you don't know is that a mead making *beast* lurks under that deceptive exterior. Tom is a two-time Best in Show winner at the Mazer Cup International Home Competition in 2015 and 2017. He came in 2nd and 3rd for Best in Show at the Mead Free or Die in 2016 and 2017. He's a BJCP Mead Judge. And he's a Master Beekeeper. Plus, he's a doctor in his 'real life'. We're wondering if he sleeps. Guess we'll  have to ask, lol. Tom is going to talk with us about mead making and beekeeping both, and we expect to ramble all over the place. So grab a bottle of mead, a glass, and a comfy chair, and we'll see what he has to say! Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Oak and Mead - Petar Bakulic Titrets sulfite testing kit The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events St. Ambrose Cellars - Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM) Meridian Hive Meadery - last Friday of every month - Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room 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!

6-6-17 Tonight we're looking forward to talking with Tom Repas. Tom is a soft-spoken guy, and seems quiet and retiring. What you don't know is that a mead making *beast* lurks under that deceptive exterior. Tom is a two-time Best in Show winner at the Mazer Cup International Home Competition in 2015 and 2017. He came in 2nd and 3rd for Best in Show at the Mead Free or Die in 2016 and 2017. He's a BJCP Mead Judge. And he's a Master Beekeeper. Plus, he's a doctor in his 'real life'. We're wondering if he sleeps. Guess we'll  have to ask, lol. Tom is going to talk with us about mead making and beekeeping both, and we expect to ramble all over the place. So grab a bottle of mead, a glass, and a comfy chair, and we'll see what he has to say! Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! 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! Show links and notes Oak and Mead - Petar Bakulic Titrets sulfite testing kit The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events St. Ambrose Cellars - Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM) Meridian Hive Meadery - last Friday of every month - Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room 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!

Ricky the Meadmaker from Groennfell and Havoc Meaderies in Vermont talks about sharing his recipes online and shares his best meadmaking practices.

We are meeting with Bob Slanz - NY Home meadmaker and beekeeper, and winner of a BoS for his ghost pepper mead. We'll talk bees, honey and mead

Ricky the Meadmaker returns to the program with his wife and business partner, Kelly Klein, to share some wonderful "beer-strength" meads and tips for our own meads.

Ricky from Groennfell Meadery joins us in Episode 23. Ricky hosts his own youtube show, Ask the Meadmaker. Listen in as we talk about Groennfell’s meads and answer a few questions Ricky has for us. http://traffic.libsyn.com/meadmakr/MeadMakr023.mp3 Right click here to download the mp3 directly. Drinks in this Episode Allen and Tysen: Mannaz and Valkyrie’s Choice (Groennfell … Continue reading "MM023: Ask THE Meadmaker" The post MM023: Ask THE Meadmaker appeared first on MeadMakr.

We sample delicious meads and mead-based experiments with home meadmaker Mike Lozano of Aurora, Colorado.