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!!
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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"
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