Shows
GotMead Live Radio Show5-6-25 Alen RadoŠević – Fool Moon Meads – Romania5-6-25 - Tonight we’re talking with Alen RadoŠević with Fool Moon Meadery in Romania. Alen makes excellent mead and has a meadery that sells in Romania only (for now).
Alen is owner and meadmaker at FoolMoon Transilvania - Romania. Alen is Certified through the Level 2 Mead Judging Program at the European Mead Makers Association. He is also winner of gold and silver medals at the 2025 Mead Madness CUP (MMC).
Alen is relatively new to mead, but it hasn’t slowed him down at all. He’s been making mead since 2020, and has a long family tradition of making w...2025-05-0600 minGotMead Live Radio Show4-22-25 Arne Defurne – Clockwork Bee Meadery- Antwerp Belgium4-22-25 Tonight we’re talking with Arne Defurne, owner and head meadmaker of Clockwork Bee Mead in Antwerp, Belgium. Arne has a nano-meadery that is growing, and makes some pretty ‘ok’ mead, producing mostly dry and off-dry meads, which is uncommon. We will dig into this and see what Arne is up to over there.
Back in 2019, Arne came to the 2 first European meadmakers conferences and at the end of the second one was told to bring his own mead next time. Little did they know he had started making first batch right before leaving for EMMAcon. Arne is one of...2025-04-2200 minGotMead Live Radio Show4-8-25 Christian Mlotschek – Home meadmaking in Ontario, CanadaTonight at 9PM ET, we will be chatting with Christian Mlotschek, a home meadmaker in Ontario, Canada. Christian is a newish meadmaker, and has jumped in with both feet to make meads.
Christian’s brewing adventures started in 2022 when he joined the Society for Creative Anachronism. He’s brewed about 40 batches of mead, beer and cider including a few historical meads from various manuscripts.
This past year he started competing in both beer and mead. His "Mixed up Mel" melomel won gold at the Ales Open in April '24, and he received a Gold for his Semi-Sweet Wildflower Trad. at Brew...2025-04-0800 minGotMead Live Radio Show3-11-25 Jason Elder – Kansas City Mead Madman3-11-25 Tonight we’re hanging out with Jason Elder, a home mead maker from Kansas City. His name shows up regularly on the comp results, and I can confirm he makes some pretty ‘ok’ mead.
Jason has been homebrewing in Kansas City since 2010 and started making Mead and Cider in 2016. He wanted to broaden his brewing experience and found that his love for making mead was higher than for making beer. He’s won awards at several competitions such as NHC and Mazer Cup. He’s considered the "Honey person" for Kansas City as since he has over 2000lbs of honey i...2025-03-1100 minGotMead Live Radio Show2-25-25 Rob Ratliff – Meadmaker and Author of The Big Book of Mead Recipes, Let There Be Melomels and Let There Be Session Meads2-25-25 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...2025-02-252h 20GotMead Live Radio Show2-11-25 Kirubell Araya – Making Tej and Heritage Winery2-11-25 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...2025-02-112h 06GotMead Live Radio Show1-14-25 Bill Boyer and Kyle Ducharme – Chocolate Meads and Mead Recipes1-14-25 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...2025-01-151h 59GotMead Live Radio Show10-6-24 Dominic Roth – Home Meadmaker in Australia10-8-24 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...2024-10-082h 11GotMead Live Radio Show3-26-24 Bray Denard – One Month Mead, Mead3-26-21 Tonight we're talking with Bray Denard, creator of the BOMM, Bray's One Month Mead.
Bray Denard, PhD is the inventor of Bray’s One Month Mead (aka “the BOMM”), one of the more popular mead styles among home mead makers. Bray has continued to refine his methods over the years to create a never fail nutrient protocol that works with any yeast!
In addition, Bray continues to provide mead making knowledge through consulting and OmniMead. OmniMead provides a free Mead Making Course as well as recipes and calculators for mead makers. Check it out: https://www.omnimead.com
Consta...2024-03-262h 09GotMead Live Radio Show2-27-24 Bob Slanzi – Mead Management, Thinking Outside the BoxTonight at 9PM ET, we're hanging out with Bob Slanzi, beekeeper, meadmaker, industry influencer and general all around pretty cool guy.
Bob Slanzi has been keeping bees and making award winning meads for years. He is very active in the meadmaking, homebrew and beekeeping communities, having held offices in both his clubs in NY in the past. he is the past president of the Home Governing Committee of the American Mead Makers Association, and very active in helping bring the word of mead to everyone. He was the person who set up and maintained the monthly deals the American Mead...2024-02-271h 31GotMead Live Radio Show12-5-23 Brian Galbreath – Unpossible Mead12-5-23 Tonight on GotMead Live at 9PM EST we're talking with Brian Galbreath, owner of Unpossible Meadery in Dwight, IL, just off Route 66. Brian started fermenting ciders and then mead in 2013. Pete Bakulic told him to focus on traditionals when he got started. [break]Brian went on to take a Mazer Cup win with his Montmorency Barrel Aged Mead, where he won the 2016 Home Mead Competition in the experimental mead category. Now his commercial meads are still taking awards in competitions.
Unpossible Mead is located in Dwight, IL (which is about 80 miles southwest of Chicago). Just having celebrated 5 years, B...2023-12-052h 20GotMead Live Radio Show7-18-23 Brian Woerner – World Honey Exchange7-18-23 We are back from our hiatus with a new episode of GotMead Live. Tonight we're talking with Brian Woerner, founder of the World Honey Exchange. World Honey Exchange curates specialty honeys from places such as Chile, Columbia, Ethiopia, Mexico and Tanzania. They have provided honeys for meaderies to make unique meads.
Brian Woerner is the Founder of World Honey Exchange, a company focused on creating and furthering linkages between honey producers and end makers of many kinds. Brian began beekeeping in 2012 in Guinea, west Africa, as a Peace Corps volunteer. He subsequently worked for a small honey startup...2023-07-181h 57GotMead Live Radio Show11-29-22 Manny Elgarresta – Meadmaker – and the Great Keys Honey Giveaway11-29-22 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...2022-11-302h 04GotMead Live Radio Show11-9-21 Rohan Meadery – Wendy Rohan and Rosie Haines – Mead is big in Texas11-9-21 Tonight we're headed to Texas to talk with Wendy Rohan and Rosie Haines at Rohan Wines and Meads in La Grange, situated between La Grange, Round Top and Fayetteville in south central Texas.
Rohan Meadery is at Blissful Folly Farm. The farm is home to Rohan Wines and Meads, Blissful Folly hard ciders and La Grange Brewing Co.
All the beer, wine, mead & cider is made on site and served at the tap room on the farm. Wendy & John Rohan started with the meadery first in 2009, then slowly built the business and added different items over the last 12...2021-11-092h 05GotMead Live Radio Show4-13-21 Pierre Rodrigue – Making Mead and Wine in Canada4-13-21 Tonight we're chatting with Pierre Rodrigue, a prolific wine and meadmaker living in Alberta, Canada.
Pierre has been fermenting wine since 1985. His early batches consisted of kits, and fruits and berries. As there weren’t a lot of publications then and zero internet, he learned a lot by trial and error.
Pierre began mead making in the fall of 2016, and has won several medals and Best of Show at Canada’s Mellarius Cup. His penchant for all juice meads is fairly well known on social media, where he moderates GotMead, Modern Mead Makers, Home Made Wine Making, and his...2021-04-132h 30GotMead Live Radio Show4-28-20 Matt Weide – Alternative Sugars, Bochets, and Techniques4-28-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Matt Weide, a long time homebrewer and meadmaker.
We'll be chatting on interesting things including alternative sugars in mead (like inverts, maple syrup and the like) and how they can be used in fermentation, bochet tips and tricks, making rhubarb mead, playing with honeyberries, the AMMA Home Governing Committee elections and the Valkyries' Horn competition.
Matt has been home brewing for over 20 years. He began making mead in 1998, but didn't get serious about it until 2007, when he took a BJCP exam prep class and found out just how good mead could...2020-04-282h 12GotMead Live Radio Show4-14-20 Scott Schaar – Mead, Beer and Meadmaking4-14-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Scott Schaar, head brewer at Crawford Brew Works and former distiller at Mississippi River Distilling Company. He is a BJCP beer and mead judge. Scot was the 2017 AHA Meadmaker of the Year (MMOTY) and shared the 2019 MMOTY award with Michael Wilcox and Carvin Wilson.
He was the 2015 East Coast MMOTY; has won multiple mead, beer, and cider bests of show; and has had his recipes professionally made by Moonlight Meadery and Prairie Rose Meadery. Scot and his wife Karen earned their Level 5 certification in the European Mead Judging Programme this past...2020-04-142h 29GotMead Live Radio Show4-7-20 Ken Schramm – Making Mead, Estate Fruit, and How Mead has Changed4-7-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're happy to have the opportunity to hang out with Ken Schramm, owner of Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, MI.
If you're new to the mead world, you may not be familiar with Ken (I'm sure there are one or two of you, lol). Ken, oft referred to as 'The Godfather of Mead' and is the author of The Compleat Meadmaker, arguably the book that launched a mead making revolution. Many meadmakers learned a lot about mead and meadmaking from Ken and his book. “The Compleat Meadmaker,” is the current reference text of record on mead...2020-04-071h 49GotMead Live Radio Show3-31-20 Peter Bakulic – Talking Mead3-31-20 We're back from a break that *should* have been because of MeadCon and Mazer Cup, but sadly we did not get to celebrate either of those events because of postponements. Make sure you're online or doing pickups to #buymead!
We are tickled to have Pete Bakulic back tonight, it's been quite a while since we've been able to get him on the show.
If you don't know of Pete, either you're new to the mead scene, or you've been hiding under a rock! Pete is President of the Mazer Cup International and a member of the American Mead...2020-03-312h 13GotMead Live Radio Show3-3-20 Steve Patik – MeadCon speaker on Braggots (and other meadly things)3-3-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Steve Patik, an accomplished and award winning mead maker who will be speaking at the AMMA MeadCon in two weeks on braggots, along with Andy Brewer from Locavore Beerworks.
Steve discovered mead over Thanksgiving dinner in 2012, and a year later was making it. Since then, Steve has been making mead in unconventional ways, yet successful.
Steve is a regular entrant in mead competitions all over the country, and he consistently does really well, even taking a Best in Show now and again. His favorite styles to work with ar...2020-03-031h 18GotMead Live Radio Show9-24-19 Ryan Carlson – Creating recipes to a flavor profile9-24-19 - Tonight we're back in mead building mode, and have Ryan back to talk about picking the yeast and
honey and other ingredients to achieve specific flavor profiles.
We all have the flavors and tastes we like, and it's different for everyone. Too much for one is not enough for another. Yeast and honey contribute a fair amount to what you end up with, and what you start with may not be where your mead finishes, flavor-wise.
There are tons of ideas out there: fermenting temperatures, to stir or not to stir, what to add at what point...2019-09-242h 28GotMead Live Radio Show8-27-19 Sam Slaughter, Author of Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum (and a secret guest)8-27-19 We're headed out to talk to other folks tonight, finding some folks who love mead, but aren't in the mead industry.
Sam Slaughter (@slaughterwrites) is the author of Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? and Other Cocktails for 90s Kids, which was released this past June. He currently works as the Food & Drink Editor for the men's lifestyle magazine the Manual and lives in Greenville, SC.His work has been featured in Maxim, Bloomberg, The Bitter Southerner, and many other places. Sam is a 90's kid from New Jersey, though he calls South Carolina home now.
He...2019-08-272h 13GotMead Live Radio Show8-20-19 Kent Waldeck – Crafted Artisan Meadery8-20-19 Tonight at 9PM EST we're talking with Kent Waldeck, owner of Crafted Artisan Meadery in Mogadore, OH.
Kent started homebrewing in around 2004, and like many homebrewers, ended up with mead. Kent worked for over a decade in Product Management and Marketing in consumer and B2B industries in North Carolina and Ohio before starting Crafted. Spending as much time as he can with his wife, Kristy, and their three sons traveling, camping and being outdoors is how he enjoys his time when he’s not busy whipping up their next seasonal release.
Crafted’s story started in North Caro...2019-08-202h 34GotMead Live Radio Show8-12-19 Kevin Martin – GoodRoads Cider and Mead8-13-19 Tonight at 9PM EST we're talking with Kevin Martin, Head of Fermentation, Labs and IT at Goodroads Cider and Mead in Charlotte, NC.
Kevin is a long time home brewer, since 1994. His first kit was a 'Slobber Porter', and his second beer was an Imperial stout/Dopple Bock/Barley wine hybrid (he was new). He read about mead in Charlie Papazian's 'New Complete Joy of Home Brewing', went out and bought a commercial example, and decided he wanted to try it out. His first batch was, in his words, 'ugh'.
Then it became a challenge.
He ended up...2019-08-132h 12GotMead Live Radio Show7-23-19 Curt Stock – Valkyries Horn Mead Competition and Talking Mead7-23-19 We're off to northern Minnesota tonight talk with Curt Stock about the Valkyries Horn, Mead Competition of the Gods. And of course talk shop with Curt about mead! When I asked Curt for some background on himself, he came back with 'overrated meadmaker' (his words). However, we wanted to give y'all a little bit more than that, so here is a bit about Curt. Curt's been homebrewing since 1996. He started making mead after he purchased Ken’s The Complete Meadmaker at the 2003 AHA conference in Chicago. He then got hooked on melomels. He made it to the AHA 2nd...2019-07-232h 05GotMead Live Radio Show7-16-19 Mike Fagan and DJ Kurtz – Honnibrook Meadery – amazing session meads7-16-19 Tonight at 9PM Eastern we're headed out to Colorado, to talk with Mike and DJ from Honnibrook Meadery. AJ and I met Mike and DJ at the 2019 MeadCon and MazerCup, and I was *blown away* by their salted mango session mead (and all their other meads). These guys are doing something right, and if you haven't tried it, you need to.
Honnibrook Craft Meadery has been open for five months and the guys are really dialling in on serving session meads, refreshing meads below 8% ABV that are easy drinkers. The meadery is located just a little over a...2019-07-162h 02GotMead Live Radio Show7-2-19 SPECIAL – ON LOCATION at B. Nektar Meadery with Kerri Dalhofer and Miranda Johnson7-2-19 Tonight at 7PM EST, we're doing a live, ON LOCATION broadcast of GotMead Live from B. Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, MI. Our guests will be Kerri Dalhofer, co-owner, and Miranda Johnson, Marketing Director/Event Magician/Ambassador of Buzz.
We're celebrating the release of the first collaboration with GotMead, Cherry Pi (with crust)! This mead is based on Vicky's grandma's cherry pie recipe, her favorite pie as a child, and one made with Michigan cherries that Vicky would pick herself as she worked in the orchards in her first job. We will be talking about B. Nektar's meads, and w...2019-07-021h 12GotMead Live Radio Show6-4-19 Brian Galbreath – Unpossible Mead – Traditionals to Sessions and Sours6-4-19 Tonight on GotMead Live at 9PM EST we're talking with Brian Galbreath, owner of Unpossible Meadery in Dwight, IL. Brian started fermenting ciders and then mead in 2013. Since then he has focused on traditionals as a homebrewer on Pete Bakulic's advice. [break]Brian took a Mazer Cup win with his Montmorency Barrel Aged Mead, where he won the 2016 Home Mead Competition in the experimental mead category. At Unpossible Mead, Brian is focusing on session meads, tart and wild fermented meads, and is gearing up a barrel program. The tasting room in Dwight has an industrial theme with exposed...2019-06-042h 33GotMead Live Radio Show5-28-19 Steve Mertz – the Canadian Sasquatch – Mead Methodologies5-28-19 Tonight we're talking with Steve Mertz, 'the Canadian Sasquatch' (who confusingly lives in Texas). We'll be talking mead methodologies and the things Steve has figured out about them. Steve “The Canadian Sasquatch” started home brewing in Fall of 2012 after a trip to the Texas Renaissance Festival. His Beautiful Bride to be, and him had some mead and thought it would be fun to try to make it at home. A quick trip to the local home brew store and one mead kit later, he was hooked. Soon after that he also tried his hand at brewing beer and quite...2019-05-282h 13GotMead Live Radio Show5-21-19 Michael Poole – Texas MeadWorks – Saving A Mead – From Undrinkable Diesel to Triple 100’s at Mazer5-21-19 It's time for Texas! Texas Mead Works, that is. Mike Poole, owner and meadmaker of Texas Meadworks, in Seguin, TX, joins us tonight.
Mike began making beer, mead, and wine while living in Washington State in the early 1990s. He currently has approximately 26 years experience fermenting. With his wife, he opened Texas Mead Works and Blue Lotus Winery in 2010 in Seguin, Texas.
Last year in September, they opened a second tasting room in the Texas Hill Country. Under the Texas Mead Works brand, they have 9 varieties of still meads selling in liquor stores all over Texas. They also have a...2019-05-212h 12GotMead Live Radio Show5-7-19 Greg Heller-LaBelle – AMMA VP, The Colony Meadery – MeadCon East5-7-19 We are talking with Greg Heller-LaBelle, Vice President of the American Mead Makers Association, and co-owner of The Colony Meadery in Bethlehem, PA. Greg is coming on to tell us all about the debut of MeadCon East, the AMMA conference, that will be held in Pennsylvania, September 5-7, 2019.[break]
After 3 years of holding the MeadCon in Broomfield, CO alongside the Mazer Cup International, the AMMA has decided to host a second conference on the other side of the country. This event, being in the first year, is as yet small, but is expected to grow each year.[break]
...2019-05-071h 57GotMead Live Radio Show4-23-19 Gary Gordon – Breaking Brew Meadery – Texas4-23-19 Tonight we're headed down to Texas, to talk with Gary Gordon, owner of Breaking Brew Meadery in Farmers Branch, Texas. Gary and his family got involved with mead via beer. He gave his son at beer kit on his 21st birthday, and that got the ball rolling. After 5 years of making beers, he got really interested in meads and ciders. They were really interested in how fast mead was taking off, and realized that craft beer drinkers are open minded about trying new things, and the meadery idea was born. Once they realized the equipment costs were lower...2019-04-232h 01GotMead Live Radio Show4-16-19 – Steve Patik on Braggots4-16-19 We're bringing Steve Patik back to talk about braggots tonight. Braggots are very popular, and there are many ways to approach them. I've had stout-style braggots, and ale-style braggots, and everything in between, and there are a million ways to make them. Steve is a big fan of braggots, and has made many. We're going to be talking about best practices for braggots, preferred yeasts, fermentation techniques and what potential problems can crop up when making them.
Steve Patik lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters. He found a passion for Mead over a Thanksgiving table...2019-04-161h 51GotMead Live Radio Show4-2-19 Scot Schaar and Bob Slanzi – Polish Mead (and Polish Passports)4-2-19 Polish Meads! At the 2019 Mazer Cup International, Scot Schaar and Bob Slanzi were given Polish 'passports', to recognize their prowess in making Polish meads. Both make amazing Polish style meads, and many have had the chance to try them and say 'hell yeah'. Making Polish style mead can be tricky, there are some rules around how the styles are made, and working with these sweeter meads is a bit of work. Making them well is a serious skill. If you're making Polish style, or thinking about it, then definitely give us a listen tonight for insights! If you'd...2019-04-021h 42GotMead Live Radio Show3-26-19 Jon Oppegaard – Oppegaard Meadery – Mead in the PNW (and Taco Mead)3-26-19 Tonight we're getting together with Jon Oppegaard, owner of Oppegaard Meadery in Tukwila, WA. Jon makes excellent mead, I've tried many of his products. He's even done savoury meads, like his taco mead (yes, I said taco) that he released recently, and which was a huge hit, and sold out pretty quick. Jon has been making mead for over 10 years, and loves it.
He made his own because there wasn't much available for him to get in his area when he discovered mead, and what he could find strained his bank account to support his mead habit, so...2019-03-262h 20GotMead Live Radio Show2-26-19 Mike Manning – Session Meads, Post Fermentation Flavoring2-26-19 Tonight we are getting together with Mike Manning, co-owner of The Colony Meadery in Allentown, PA. Mike is speaking at the AMMA MeadCon in two sessions, Session Meads, and Post Fermentation Mead Flavoring.
Mike has been brewing since 2001, and did his first mead in 2009, on Mead Day. He's gone on to win a bunch of medals, and won BOS in Valhalla, resulting in a collaboration mead with Moonlight Meadery that is still a core mead with them.
When Mike did the collab, he was hooked, and eventually co-founded The Colony Meadery with Greg Heller-LaBelle. The Colony is making...2019-02-262h 04GotMead Live Radio Show2-18-19 Sergio Moutela – Making Beer Style Meads, TOSNA and Mead Made Right2-18-19 We're back to featuring MeadCon speakers. Tonight is Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery in New Jersey. Sergio is an accomplished meadmaker, and will be speaking at the MeadCon on Making Beer Styled Meads.
Sergio has been pushing the boundaries of many mead styles, one of my favorites is Peachy Palmer, a lemon-tea session mead that is so refreshing and tasty, you'll find yourself drinking too much of it!
Sergio is also the creator of the MeadMadeRight website and the TOSNA fermentation technique, as well as a calculator and now the MeadMadeRight podcast.
And Sergio is president of...2019-02-192h 31GotMead Live Radio Show2-12-2019 Dan McFeeley on the History of Mead and Mead Legends2-12-2019 Tonight at 9PM EST, we're talking with long-time mead history buff Dan McFeeley. Dan has been on the Gotmead forums for almost as long as Gotmead has *had* a forum. He was a regular poster in the Mead Lovers Digest email list before Gotmead even existed, and you can find his posts in the MLD archives on Gotmead. He hasn't been super active lately, life and parenting has kept him busy, but his interest in history, and mead history, is still keen.
Dan has written several articles (linked below) on mead and mead history over the years. Back...2019-02-122h 21GotMead Live Radio Show1-22-19 Tom Repas – Acids in Mead, Mead Flaws and Faults, and Carbonation1-22-19 We're off and running this year with featuring people who will be speaking at the AMMA Meadcon March 12-14. Tonight we're talking with Tom Repas (we had a schedule change, and Steve Patik will be on next week). Tom is a master beekeeper who speaks all over the country, AMMA Meadmaker of the Year 2018, winner of many medals, including two Mazer Cup Best of Show awards (2015 and 2017) and 14 cups, farmer, doctor, and all around great guy.
Tom spoke at the 2018 AMMA Mead Conference as well. He's a prominent poster in Modern Mead Makers and GotMead on Facebook, and...2019-01-221h 47GotMead Live Radio Show1-15-18 Mead Myths Busted – Part 2 with Ryan Carlson1-15-19 Part 2 of Mead Myths, because we had so many that came up from our listeners last week! Ryan, Vicky and AJ will be talking about the myths that have arisen on techniques in meadmaking, they pervade a lot of the internet and are passed around by people not aware that they are myths.
Yes, mead is old as people, and yes, it has a long history (we're having a show on mead history next month), but we also have science, and as science has advanced, we've discovered or proven many things about fermentation, and specifically about making mead...2019-01-152h 07GotMead Live Radio Show1-8-19 Ryan on Meadmaking: Myth vs. Science in making good mead1-8-19 We're back after our December time off to enjoy family and the holidays. And diving right in! Ryan is going to kick off the new year with some conversation on meadmaking, and some of the myths that seem to pervade a lot of the internet and are passed around by people not aware that they are myths.
Yes, mead is old as people, and yes, it has a long history (we're having a show on mead history next month), but we also have science, and as science has advanced, we've discovered or proven many things about fermentation, and...2019-01-082h 08GotMead Live Radio Show11-27-18 Kenneth Jenkinson – Savannah Bee11-27-18 Tonight we are talking with Kenneth Jenkinson, manager at Savannah Bee Company and fellow mead maker.
Kenneth is heavily involved with the Savannah Brewers Club, works on the Domras Cup competition. He's an avid meadmaker, and is very passionate about mead and honey. Especially honey.
Savannah Bee Company strives to live as bees live: symbiotically with nature and in a manner that contributes positively to the world around us.
Savannah Bee Company grew out of Ted’s passion for bees, beekeeping and honey. They carry several honey varietals, including some rarer ones like desert wildflower, tupelo and sourwood. Th...2018-11-272h 26GotMead Live Radio Show11-20-18 Ryan Carlson – Creating Flavor Profiles for Mead Recipes11-20-18 We're continuing our exploration of mead recipes and flavor profiles this week. We asked in the GotMead Group on Facebook and on the Gotmead Page for some flavor profiles that people would like to try to create. We're going to spend tonight working on them, and seeing what we can come up with to help with creating recipes for those flavor profiles.
Get your Flavor Bibles out, and join us on the live chat as we explore creating particular flavor profiles in mead.
Some of the flavor concoctions that they have submitted are:
Matt Mead - Faygo Rock...2018-11-202h 15GotMead Live Radio Show11-13-18 Ryan Carlson – Creating Mead Recipes – Part 211-13-18 OK, so recipes are taking longer to do than we had in one show, lol. Last show we went down multiple rabbit holes of mead making ideas from questions from the chat gang, so we're back this week with Recipes, Part 2.
We promise to stay on target this week. No, really!
Making mead is as simple, or as complicated as you'd like it to be. And recipes are the same. Making mead is like cooking, only liquid. So the flavors you like, the flavors you want, that is your basis for creating the bomb mead recipe. But how...2018-11-132h 17GotMead Live Radio Show11-6-18 Pete Bakulic – All About Mead Competitions11-6-18 We're tickled to have Pete Bakulic, President of the Mazer Cup International Mead Competition, on with us tonight.
Pete was one of the founders of the Mazer Cup International and has been actively involved with the growth and expansion of the competition ever since. Last year, the Mazer Cup International saw over 1100 meads judged. It is the largest mead competition in the world. Entries for the home side of the competition typically fill up several hours for home, and under 2 weeks for commercial, it's that popular.
Pete has been making mead for over 30 years, and is also a t...2018-11-062h 17GotMead Live Radio Show10-30-18 Ryan Carlson – Creating Your Custom Mead Recipe10-30-18 Episode 123! Dang, they're piling up! We're back from a week off, because Vicky ran off to DisneyWorld last week (and found mead there!!).
This week, Ryan is back again, and wants to talk about creating your own mead recipes. Probably the most asked question on the Gotmead Forums and the many mead social media groups is 'do you have a recipe for xxx'.
Yeah, we do. But you'll never be able to make the same mead as us, because there are differences in regional honey, fruits, spices, etc. No two meads are exactly alike. But that's ok, Ryan...2018-10-302h 12GotMead Live Radio Show10-16-18 Michael Jordan – Making Medical Mead10-16-28 Tonight we're off to cooler climes in Wyoming, and meeting with Michaell Jordan.
Michael Jordan is a hobby mead maker looking to go commercial in the near future. He has been keeping honey bees now for over 20 years. Michael’s family has been making mead not only as a tasty beverage, but for medical usage.
Michael blends herbs, and uses honey from all over the world for his medical meads. Michael has now grown into Colorado’s culture of cannabis. Infusing marijuana into honeys, using cannabis concentrates for higher CBD and THC contents, and blending them with old time...2018-10-162h 14GotMead Live Radio Show10-9-18 Mateusz Blaszczyk – European Mead Makers Association Conference and Competitions10-9-18 Tonight we're going across the pond, in a recorded episode with Mateusz Blaszczyk, who is putting on the European Mead Makers Association's first Mead Conference, November 8-9 in Poznan, Poland. The group Kings of Mead YouTube channel will also be putting on two mead competitions, the Mead Madness Competition one for home meadmakers and one for professional meaderies.
Currently it is expected that 10 or more countries will have meadmakers attending the conference, so they're off to a great start!
The EMMA is picking up speed in Europe, starting in Switzerland by Alexander Eckert in Italy, in 2017. Currently it...2018-10-091h 42GotMead Live Radio Show10-2-18 Ryan Carlson – Pairing Yeasts to Meads – Part 210-2-18 We're dropping into teaching mode again tonight, and bringing in Ryan to talk mead. He'll be digging into pairing yeasts to your mead recipes, continuing the conversation from last week.
Possibly one of the larger questions in mead making is 'what yeast do I use?'. And a big question is is indeed. There are hundreds of yeasts out there, for wine, beer, cider and even a few mead specific yeasts.
But which one to choose? That is the question. Ryan is going to try to help you narrow this down, so you can make more focused yeast...2018-10-022h 02GotMead Live Radio Show9-25-18 Ryan Carlson – Pairing Yeast to Meads9-25-18 We're dropping into teaching mode tonight, and bringing in Ryan to talk mead. He'll be digging into pairing yeasts to your mead recipes.
Possibly one of the larger questions in mead making is 'what yeast do I use?'. And a big question is is indeed. There are hundreds of yeasts out there, for wine, beer, cider and even a few mead specific yeasts.
But which one to choose? That is the question. Ryan is going to try to help you narrow this down, so you can make more focused yeast choices for your upcoming mead batches.
We're...2018-09-252h 28GotMead Live Radio Show9-18-18 Scott Neeley – Kingview Mead in Pennsylvania9-18-18 We're headed up to Pennsylvania tonight, to talk with Scott Neeley, head meadmaker at Kingview Meadery.
Scott has been making mead since 2011, and did a lot of work at it, until he began to enter competitions in 2015. He has since picked up a number of medals, and a couple BoS medals. He ended up starting a meadery after visiting a number of meaderies around PA and OH, and as a man of German descent, and a lover of bees, felt it was the right move for him to make.
Scott is adamant about using cold fermenting, and fresh...2018-09-182h 05GotMead Live Radio Show9-11-18 Thomas Hubbe – Bee Seasonal Honey and Tom Repas – honey expert and award winning mead maker9-11-18 Today we're getting together with Thomas Hubbe, co-owner of Bee Seasonal, a purveyor of Brazilian Honey.
Thomas and Larissa founded Bee Seasonal because they love honey. Larissa noticed that in Europe, they routinely stock seasonal honeys from around the world, but in the US, not so much. So she and Thomas set out to rectify this.
Their mission is to source organic honeys from beekeepers devoted to their bees, their communities and the land. They want to generate transparency by connecting consumers to producers, educating people about sustainable farming practices and the places where the honeys come from.
...2018-09-112h 12GotMead Live Radio Show9-4-18 Susan Ruud – On Oaking9-4-18 We're back after my trip to Australia (yes, we'll talk about the mead there too). And our first guest now that we're back is none other than Susan Ruud, co-founder of Prairie Rose Meadery in Fargo, ND. Susan makes pretty amazing mead, and when last I was there, last summer, I ended up getting nearly every one of her meads, because I just couldn't leave them out. All were excellent.
Susan spoke at the AHA Convention this year, and talked in depth on oaking meads. We're going to dig into that with her, and see how she uses...2018-09-042h 21GotMead Live Radio Show8-7-18 Sam Clikeman – Big Lost Meadery8-7-18 We're skipping over to Wyoming this week to visit with Sam Clikeman, owner of Big Lost Meadery. Sam started making beer back in the early 2000's in Logan, UT with a buddy. In a forest service cabin in the middle of the woods. No running water, very little electric, and not much by way of supplies. That takes dedication! It actually worked out better than you might think it would, and a couple years later, Sam discovered mead. Sam didn’t want to waste a year for a five gallon carboy of mead; if it is good, you onl...2018-08-072h 14GotMead Live Radio Show7-31-18 Kiley Gwynn – Mountain Rose Herbs – BJCP Judge7-31-18
Mountain Rose Herbs is an online purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. They focus on sustainability and offer one of the most thorough selections of certified organic herbs, spices, and botanical products today. Organics are their first choice regardless of price or profit. They try to stay as close to zero waste as they can, and have a Platinum ranking for Zero Waste Certification. Their herbs are certified organic, and sustainably harvested. They sell everything from herbs and spices, to culinary oils, bath and body care products, essential oils a...2018-07-312h 08GotMead Live Radio Show7-24-18 Justin LeVaughn – Mead Analysis at Ethereal Brewing7-24-18 Tonight we're talking with Justin LeVaughn, who is the Quality Assurance and Quality Control Officer at Ethereal Brewing in Lexington, KY. Justin does the microbiological and sensory analysis there, and maintains their yeast stocks.
Justin started home brewing beer about 10 years ago in college, and combined his formal biology training with the hobby. He fell into the mead world about 4-5 years ago, and was hooked. His main passions are carbonated session meads and metheglins, but he regularly brews big fruit and spice meads. He loves experimenting with weird flavor combinations, and setting up trails with different flavors...2018-07-242h 26GotMead Live Radio Show2-6-18 AMMA Speaker Showcase – Carvin Wilson – Techniques for Fruit Additions in Meads2-6-18 We’re continuing showcasing speakers for the AMMA Conference next month with Carvin Wilson. Carvin will be speaking on different fruit addtion techniques for making melomels. He wil be doing a side-by-side comparison of difference meads made with all fruit in the primary, all fruit in the secondary, half primary/secondary, and one late fruit addition in primary. All meads will be made with the same fruit without any acid adjustments. The goal of this is to educate mead makers on the difference flavor profiles of each different fruit addition technique.
Carvin has been much in the mead sce...2018-02-062h 17GotMead Live Radio Show1/30/18 AMMA Speaker Showcase: Diane Currier – Honeygirl Meadery – Solopreneur, Going it Alone to Start a Meadery1/30/18 We're continuing the run up to the AMMA Conference and Mazer Cup Competitions and talking with Diane Currier, owner of HoneyGirl Meadery here in Durham, NC.
Diane started homebrewing beer shortly after moving back to Durham in the early 1990s. She experienced her first mead at Ring of Fire Meadery in Homer Alaska in 2004. After hiking through a field of local fireweed wildflowers, she was introduced to a mead made from those flowers, and was hooked for life. She remains in awe of the extraordinary results of fermenting what is essentially billions of bee visits to flowers and the amazing...2018-01-302h 19GotMead Live Radio Show1-23-18 AMMA Speaker Showcase – Jeff Herbert – Expanding Production and Chris Kuzme – NY Fermentation Fest1-23-18 We're continuing talking with AMMA speakers, and tonight we have Jeff Herbert, meadmaker and owner at Superstition Meadery, who is stepping in for Carlos Bassetti, who can't make it tonight. Carlos is speaking at the conference about Superstition's leap from 60 gallon batches to 1000 gallon batches. He's also an amazing meadmaker, with some very unique ideas. We're going to get an overview of his talk, and then pick Jeff's brains on his mead making ideas and techniques.
We're also going to have Chris Kuzme, who is putting on the NY Fermentation Fest, which this year will have several meaderies r...2018-01-232h 24GotMead Live Radio Show1-16-18 AMMA Speaker Showcase – Matt Weide and Bocheting Honey1-16-18 We're continuing featuring some of the AMMA speakers in this run up to the AMMA Conference March 14-15 and the Mazer Cup International Mead Competition and Mead Mixer March 16-17.
Today we're featuring Matt Weide, VP of the Minnesota Homebrewers Association. Matt is going to be presenting at the AMMA Conference on how to bochet honey. In his talk at the conference, he will discuss the methods of caramelizing honey for meads. The pros and cons for the different methods along with how it will change the end product. He will also cover how caramelizing honey can differ...2018-01-162h 03GotMead Live Radio Show1-9-18 Conference Run Up – Sergio Moutela – Meadmaking Techiniques and Bob Slanz – Conference Session Update1-9-18 We're starting to feature the speakers from the AMMA Conference, coming up March 14-15, 2018. You can learn more at the website, 2 days of both home and professional tracks, all about mead.
Sergio is owner of Melovino Meadery, and will be speaking on his experiment with nutrients, doing a triangle test to determine which methods of meadmaking are perceived to make the best mead, according to the 80 people expected to take part.
We will also have Bob Slanzi on with us, and he's going to be doing some commentary on the AMMA Conference subjects, and digging in a bit...2018-01-092h 15GotMead Live Radio Show1-2-18 Making Modern Mead – Andrew Lumberto, BJCP Grandmaster – Bob Slanzi1-2-18 Happy New Year! To start the new year off, we're visiting with Andrew Lumberto and Bob Slanzi. You all know Bobby, he's been on the show several times, and usually hangs out in the chat.
Bobby is going to talk about flavor profiles in mead, and creating flavor groupings.
But you might not know Andrew.
Andrew is a Certified Cicerone and a Grandmaster Beer Judge I with a mead certification.He's also President of the largest fermented appreciation group on Long Island, Long Island Beer and Malt Enthusiasts. He's been pushing more mead and cider as president. We've h...2018-01-022h 26GotMead Live Radio Show11-28-17 Making Modern Mead – Ryan Carlson and Steve Fletty11-28-17 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 be...2017-11-282h 32GotMead Live Radio Show11-14-17 Ryan Carlson – After the Science – Fine Tuning Your Mead7-14-17 So now that we have a good idea on how to employ modern science to make the best mead possible in very short order. I thought it might be a good time to explore how to massage our meads on the other end of the spectrum, once the science piece is finished, so they can become the best they can be. Almost never is a mead finished straight out of the fermentation process.
Anyone can read a recipe, but it takes more than that to coerce several parts of the equation into a something beyond good. Were talking a...2017-11-143h 00GotMead Live Radio Show11-7-17 Making Modern Mead – Steve Kirby – Stone Dog Meadery – Braggots11-7-17 We're back with another edition of Making Modern Mead. And we're headed back to Australia, to talk with Steve Kirby, owner of Stone Dog Meadery in Yarra, New South Wales, Australia. Steve is a braggot monster, and makes a lot of them.
Steve started brewing in 1990, and his first attempt at fermenting was a plum wine made in his parents’ laundry and he's been brewing ever since. Along the way he has been mentored by champion amateur and commercial brewers, been awarded both gold and silver medals in NSW state competitions and gold in the 2014 National homebrew championship (mea...2017-11-072h 23GotMead Live Radio Show10-31-17 Making Modern Mead – Eric Lowe – Meridian Hive – Session Meads10-31-17 Hoppy Mead-o-Ween! We are back tonight to continue our series in Making Modern Mead. We've been talking about styles, and tonight we're talking session meads with Eric Lowe, co-owner of Meridian Hive Meadery in Austin, Texas.
Even though session meads, i.e. lower alcohol meads between 4 and 8%, are a sack mead and can be in any style, we are pulling it out in an episode to focus on how to make your meads better at this level.
Meridian Hive turns out some of the tastiest session meads around, and they've a pile of medals to back that up...2017-10-312h 06GotMead Live Radio Show10-24-17 Ryan Carlson and Jason Todd Phelps – Cysers10-24-17 We're baaaaccckkkk! We took a 2 week break, and are back talking mead, this week with Jason Todd Phelps, owner of Ancient Fire Mead and Cider, and award winning mead maker.
Jason has been around the block for many many years and has won countless awards with all things fermented. It seems fitting that tonight we should talk about cysers since it's apple season in many parts of the US. Cysers are mead made with apples. As simplistic as this sounds, in my opinion this is one of the more difficult categories in mead making. So many factors need...2017-10-243h 05GotMead Live Radio Show10-3-17 Ryan and David Thiebault – Making Modern Mead – Pyments10-3-17 We're back for another episode of Modern Meadmaking, featuring Ryan Carlson.
We have covered the most current protocol for making great mead, from the very beginning all the way to stabilization.
Now for a while we will be looking at specific categories, and how make these specific meads. Although not in any specific order.
Tonight we have a very special guest, David Thiebault. David is one of those guys who makes mead making look easy. He has won 10 Mazer Cup medals and many other medals from some of the most prestigious competitions in the mead world, including "best...2017-10-032h 51GotMead Live Radio Show9-26-17 Ryan and Tom Repas – Moder Mead Making – Sulfiting and SorbatingPhoto by Jaden Birchmore
9-26-17 We are continuing with Making Modern Mead, hosted by Ryan Carlson.
I'm proud to announce that we have a very special guest speaker this evening. Tom Repas will be joining us this evening to speak about the proper use of sulfites. Also known as sulfur dioxide, k-meta and SO2.
As we all know the web is full of misinformation about everything. And probably nothing more than how to properly employ sulfites and sorbate to stabilize a mead. And even more confusion comes when we dig into how to use sulfites to ensure we give...2017-09-262h 14GotMead Live Radio Show9-19-17 Ryan Making Modern Mead – SNAs, Racking, Stabilizing and AgingPhoto courtesy Petar Bakulic - his Paso Extreme Zin
9-19-17 We're continuing our series on Making Modern Mead. We talked yeast for the last two weeks, and had lots of great info from Ryan, and lots of great questions from the listeners.
Now we're moving on to staggered nutrient additions, racking, stabilization and aging. There is a ton of info here, and we're going to dig into it and see what we can get out there.
Mead is a science, and knowing the basics means being able to make better mead, and gives you the ability to deepen your...2017-09-192h 19GotMead Live Radio Show9-5-17 Ryan Carlson – Modern Mead Making – Yeast9-5-17 We're continuing with a series on Modern Mead Making, lead by Ryan Carlson.
So with so many newcomers joining our forum. And with conflicting information on the interweb. I have decided to do a short series where we will work from front to back of the process of making good meads using today most modern techniques.
I would never declare that I know it all, or that my way is the only way. There are many different approaches to mead making as there are mazers making mead.
As I have often said: If you ask five mazers how t...2017-09-052h 11GotMead Live Radio Show8-29-17 Ryan Carlson – Oaking your Mead8-29-17 Tonight we're talking with Ryan Carlson (known as Squatchy on the Gotmead Forums).
Ryan has been making mead for quite a while now. And along the way, he's learned quite a bit as well. And one of the things he's been talking about a lot lately is oaking mead. Oak in mead can add a ton of complexity and depth, and the methods, time and type of oak make a difference.
This is an often-discussed technique, and one that has many answers. Ryan is going to lead the discussion tonight, with the Gotmead Live Team, Manny, AJ and...2017-08-291h 47GotMead Live Radio Show8-1-17 Mary Izett – author of “Speed Brewing”8-1-17 We're having fun tonight! We are being joined by Mary Izett! Mary is a passionate homebrewer specializing in fast and alternatively fermented beverages. She is author of "Speed Brewing", and she co-hosts Fuhmentaboudit!, a live weekly show on all things fermentable, on Heritage Radio Network and is a BJCP National ranked beer judge. She has been the president of both the New York City Homebrewers Guild and the Malted Barley Appreciation Society and has written for Ale Street News, All About Beer, and Zymurgy.
Mary comes to us by way of our mutual friend, Bob Slanzi. We're really...2017-08-012h 13GotMead Live Radio Show7-25-17 Steve Piatz – Author of “The Complete Guide to Making Mead”Tonight we're thrilled to be talking with Steve Piatz, author of the top-selling mead book, "The Complete Guide to Making Mead".
The first meads Steve made were when he was training with his brewclub to become a BJCP judge, back in the 90's. They weren't the best meads, but they worked at it. Then he attended a session taught by Ken Schramm and Dan McConnell, and he found what good mead tasted like. Then Ken wrote "The Compleat Meadmaker", and then the discussions of staggered nutrients and fruit in primary and other interesting developments began to happen. His mead got...2017-07-252h 21GotMead Live Radio Show7-18-17 Scot Schaar – 2017 NHC Meadmaker of the Year7-18-17 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 Fre...2017-07-182h 16GotMead Live Radio Show7-11-17 Sergio Moutela, Tom Repas and Bob Slanz7-11-17 UPDATE: Steve had a last minute medical thing, he'll be fine, but couldn't be on the show tonight. We will have him back later.
We were lucky to have Sergio Moutela, Bob Slanz *and* Tom Repas, all at once, and the show was awesome!
Tonight we're thrilled to be talking with Steve Piatz, author of the top-selling mead book, "The Complete Guide to Making Mead".
The first meads Steve made were when he was training with his brewclub to become a BJCP judge, back in the 90's. They weren't the best meads, but they worked at it. Then...2017-07-112h 33GotMead Live Radio Show6-20-17 Bob Slanz – New York Beekeeper and Meadmaker of Awesome Seaweed Mead6-20-17 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...2017-06-192h 27GotMead Live Radio Show6-13-17 Oliver Winery – William Oliver – Camelot Mead and 40 years of mead making6-13-17 We're stepping out of our series featuring amazing home mead makers to take an evening with Bill Oliver, of Oliver Winery. Bill’s father Professor William Oliver started winemaking as a hobby back in the 1960's, and Bill grew that hobby winery into a high quality winery. Oliver happens to make one of the older professional meads in the United States, Camelot Mead.
Professor Oliver was instrumental in passing legislation allowing for the creation of small wineries in Indiana. The Indiana Small Winery Act passed in 1971, and Oliver Winery opened in 1972. Sales took off with Camelot Mead, and th...2017-06-141h 53GotMead Live Radio Show6-6-17 Tom Repas – Meadmaker, Beekeeper and Two Time MCI Winner6-6-17 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.
T...2017-06-062h 28GotMead Live Radio Show5-30-17 – Carvin Wilson – Fermentation – No, it’s not a month or more…5-30-17 Welcome to another episode of GotMead Live! We're chatting with Carvin Wilson tonight.
In case you've been hiding under a rock, no, Carvin isn't a meadery owner, he's a regular meadmaker. And this year he burst out of the woodwork at the Mazer Cup and took home 4 Mazers. (He's also snagged 3 medals at Mead Free or Die and 6 Midwinter Competition medals). He also rented a big party suite in the hotel and entertained, well, *everybody* for the entire week of the AMMA Conference and the MCI.
If you didn't get a chance to meet him or talk with...2017-05-302h 30GotMead Live Radio Show5-9-17 James Boicourt – Charm City Meadworks – session meads and fun flavors5-9-17 We're tickled to be talking with James Boicourt, co-owner with Andrew Geffken of Charm City Meadworks in Baltimore, MD.
James got hooked on bees in college, and has been a honey nut ever since. He and Jeff met after college, and their honey madness turned from a thing, into an annual Viking Fest, and then into a business.
Charm City makes some pretty awesome meads, and has rapidly grown up and out. They make some really interesting flavors for their meads, and we're going to see what they have to say about them.
Join us for GotMead Live C...2017-05-092h 21GotMead Live Radio Show5-2-17 Alex Gonzalez – Honeypot Meadery – doing custom brews5-2-17 Tonight on Gotmead Live we're talking to Alex Gonzalez, owner of Honeypot Meadery in Orange County, CA.
Honeypot isn't open yet (they plan to open by the end of 2017), but they're doing custom brews with Frank Golbeck at Golden Coast Mead in San Diego, and just released their first mead. They are one of 5 meaderies in the San Diego area now.
Alex is fond of melomels, and we'll be talking about his favorite mead style, what they've got planned, and his preferred mead making techniques.
Come listen with us and we'll check out what Alex has to say!
J...2017-05-022h 08GotMead Live Radio Show4-25-17 Australia Month Week 4 – Joel Robinson – Hunter and the Harp4-25-17 This is our last week in Australia, and we're tickled to have Joel Robinson, owner of Hunter and the Harp, in Wollongong, New South Wales.
Joel started out doing some co-brews with a local brewery, but is striking out independently now, and plans to make drier meads, best served chilled.
He's active in the Australian mead awareness scene as well, and very active as a home meadmaker, and posts often on Facebook to say what he's up to, and to offer advice to newer meadmakers.
Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You...2017-04-252h 26GotMead Live Radio Show4-18-17 Australia Week 3 – Sueann Allworden – Thistle Meadery4-18-17 Welcome to week 3 in Australia! This week we're visiting with Sueann Allworden, owner of Thistle Meadery in Bibaringa, South Australia. Sueann is another home meadmaker who ended up opening her meadery because the meads she was making (all over their living room) were so good, she had to go commercial.
They make 16 different meads so far, and use some really interesting honey in their products. All the ones we've had so far are pretty awesome.
Join us to find out more about Sueann and her meadmaking, and to learn more about meadmaking in Australia!
Join us for GotMead L...2017-04-182h 15GotMead Live Radio Show4-11-17 Australia Week 2 – Sean Johnson – Erosion Meadery4-11-17 Greetings from Down Under! We are on week 2 of our digital tour of Australian meaderies, and this week's guest is Sean Johnson, owner of Erosion Meadery in Perth, Western Australia.
In 2016 they hit it out of the park with their first Collaboration with Artisan Brewing - Erosion Bier De Miel which happened to be one of the best sellers at the Fremantle Beer Festival in 2016. They also have paired session meads with Artisan as a Belgian Beer masterclass, a 3.5% hopped Malle honey mead and a 3.8% Malle Honey Mead with Belgian yeast.
Hamish will be leading again, along with...2017-04-112h 11GotMead Live Radio Show4-4-17 Australia Week 1 – Steve Kirby – Stone Dog Meadery4-4-2017 G'day, mates! Welcome to Mead in Australia Month on Gotmead Live!
We have with us tonight (or today for you folks in Oz), Steve Kirby, owner of Stone Dog Meadery in New South Wales, Australia. He runs an artisan meadery and has more than 10 meads (with more on the way) that feature the unique honeys you can only find Down Under.
Join us (and Hamish is translating, LOL) to see how they make mead in the Southern Hemisphere!
Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype...2017-04-042h 29GotMead Live Radio Show2-28-17 Jason Phelps – Ancient Fire Mead & Sergio Moutela – Melovino talk about making awesome Pyments2-28-17 We are hitting the East Coast tonight, and doing a deep dive into Pyments.
Pyments are mead made with grapes as the fruit, and they are gaining in popularity as mead continues to grow. Making a great pyment, whether dry or sweet, takes a bit of doing, and choosing the honey and grapes (or juice) can be frustrating, finding the right combination to hit that 'sweet' spot.
We have two guests to talk about this, kind of a mini-panel. The first is Jason Phelps, owner of Ancient Fire Meadery in New Hampshire.
Jason is an award winning homebrewer...2017-03-013h 00GotMead Live Radio Show2-21-17 Shauna LeFave – Mythic Mead – Filtration, Cold Crashing and Mead without Added Sulfites2-21-17 Our show tonight moves to Idaho, the home of Mythic Mead. Shauna and William LeFave are the owners, and have their first mead out, Huck Me, a huckleberry melomel.
Shauna will be talking with us about their journey to go pro, and their meadmaking experiences. We're also going to dig into filtration, cold-crashing your meads, and stabilizing meads without adding sulfites.
As an added bonus tonight, Pete Bakulic, the president of the upcoming (March 9-11) Mazer Cup International Mead Competition and Mead Mixer will be dropping by to talk about the event, and maybe we can even get...2017-02-212h 46GotMead Live Radio Show2-14-17 Southwestern Mead Local Sourcing – Greg Menke – Falcon Mead2-14-17 We're headed to New Mexico tonight, to visit with Greg Menke, the chef owner of The Beestro Group of Businesses: The Beestro and The Hive Market located in downtown Santa Fe New Mexico as well as The Root Cellar Mead Taproom & Gastropub and Falcon Meadery both coming online in fall/winter 2016.
These businesses encompass Greg’s passion for community, high quality local and sustainable food, and a celebration of honey bees. Inspired by the hive community of bees, each of these businesses helps one another succeed, in turn, helping to keep people, the local economy, and the environment he...2017-02-152h 38GotMead Live Radio Show2-7-17 Creating Award Winning Meads without Aging – Billy Beltz – Lost Cause Meadery2-7-17 We're having way too much fun with this! Tonight we're talking with Billy Beltz, winner of 32 medals over last 2 years, including 2 Mazer Cup medals, for meads under 6 months old. Most were even younger than that! He's also won a number of medals for his capsicumels, coffee meads and traditionals. He definitely knows his stuff!
Billy has been homebrewing for over 10 years, and has a lot of interesting ideas, and has gotten a lot of his ideas and techniques from Charlie Papazian, Petar Bakulic and right here at GotMead.
Billy is also opening a meadery this summer, Lost Cause...2017-02-082h 22GotMead Live Radio Show1-31-17 Making Great Session Meads with Jason Scott Phelps at Ancient Fire Meadery1-31-17 Tonight we're going to talk about making session meads with Jason Scott Phelps from Ancient Fire Meadery. If the mead gods are good, we'll also have Chris Herr from Golden Coast Mead as well
What, might you ask, is a session mead? A session mead is a lower alcohol mead, often carbonated, that is gaining popularity. It's an easy drinker, and not terribly hard to make, once you know how.
Often, session meads tend to be thin, and without body. We're going to dig into how to do that with Jason, and see what he does to create...2017-02-012h 32GotMead Live Radio Show1-24-17 Jeff & Terri Cheskin – Liquid Alchemy Beverages1-24-17 We've a new meadery tonight, in Delaware! Joining us will be Jeff and Terri Cheskin, owners of Liquid Alchemy Beverages, a new meadery open in Delaware.
Jeff and Terri fell in love with mead a while back, They found mead on a trip to Maine to visit family, and fell in love with a lavender lemonade mead from Maine Meadworks.
That was when they realized that people love mead as much as they do. That sparked an intense study of New England meads and honeys, and has resulted in the opening of their meadery.
Come on over with...2017-01-252h 02GotMead Live Radio Show1-17-17 Gary Ellis – Mad Moose Mead1-17-17 Today's GotMead Live takes us to the New England states. Connecticut to be exact. Gary Ellis, owner of Mad Moose Mead, will be joining us.
Gary fell in love with mead several years ago, and after seeing that you don't have to start big to make a splash in the mead world, he took the plunge (enough metaphors for you?)
Mad Moose will be opening in summer of 2017, and they've hooked up with a brewer and a distiller, so they will have a pretty good offering to open with.
If you are a meadery in planning, or thinking...2017-01-181h 44GotMead Live Radio Show1-10-17 Rob Ratliff – Big Book of Mead Recipes and BtB – Polish Meads1-10-17 Tonight we're back from our holiday vacation!! We hope you all had a great holiday, and a fun New Year!
We'll be talking with Rob Ratliff. Those of you who listen to the show might remember we had him on earlier in the year on Back to Basics. Rob is an intuitive mead recipe designer, and his meads are top notch. (He's also a good friend!).
Rob decided to put his recipes, and his skills, into a book, The Big Book of Mead Recipes. It comes out on Kindle this month, followed by a trade paperback, and later...2017-01-112h 24GotMead Live Radio Show11-8-16 Michael Jordan – the Bee Whisperer – BtB – Making Mead from a BeekeeperPOSTPONED TO THURSDAY NOV 10 DUE TO EQUIPMENT ISSUES (THE COMPUTER DIED) - PLEASE COME LISTEN THEN!!
11-8-16 - We are tickled to be talking with Michael Jordan, the Bee Whisperer tonight on GotMead Live. Michael has traveled the world to learn beekeeping, from Turkey and India, From Poland to Ireland. He was also asked to join a team to teach orphans around the world beekeeping and to do classes at the University of Wyoming's Bee College. He has 173 hives that he manages now, and is getting around 5000 lbs of honey out of them (that is a TON of honey!!).
...2016-11-092h 32GotMead Live Radio Show6-21-16 Ed Nowek from Planet Bee and Back to Basics – Stabilization and Backsweetening6-21-16 We're still hanging out in the Great White North this week, and talking with Ed Nowek from Planet Bee! Planet Bee is a honey farm and meadery in British Columbia. They've picked up their share of medals from the Mazer Cup competition.
AJ and I, and *special guest* Wayne Boncyk, from the GotMead Forums and the Mazer Cup will be talking about stabilization and backsweetening your meads. Got questions? 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...2016-06-212h 16GotMead Live Radio ShowGotMead Live – Hangin’ with the MeadmakrsFeb 9 - Well, it's a party on Gotmead Live tonight! Because, Mardi Gras (and Tysen needs his Untappd check-in for Mardi Gras). We'll be talking mead, meadmaking, and anything else that we find interesting.2016-02-092h 47GotMead Live Radio ShowGotMead Live – 810 MeadworksOn GotMead Live tonight, we have Bryan DeGraw, owner of 810 Meadworks in Medina, NY, a new meadery that opened in November 2014. Bryan is one of many new meaderies that have opened in the last year here in the US. Come join us, and get your questions about their meadery, and their journey to start up.2015-10-202h 13GotMead Live Radio ShowGotMead Live – Episode 5 – Joe Mattioli – Creator of Joe’s Ancient Orange MeadTonight on Gotmead Live we are talking with Joe Mattioli, the creator of the most-shared mead recipe on the web, Joe's Ancient Orange Mead. Joe will be telling us more about how he came up with the recipe, and why it works so well if you follow it to the letter.2015-08-042h 07GotMead Live Radio ShowGotMead Live – Episode 2 – B. Nektar – Brad & Kerri DalhoferWe'll be talking with Brad and Kerri Dalhofer, owners of B.Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, MI. Brad got his start on GotMead, and now he and Kerri have one of the largest independently owned meaderies in the U.S. We'll be exploring when they discovered mead, and how they started their business, and where they get their ideas for some the unique meads they've created over the years. Join us and call in to ask them your questions!2015-07-071h 59