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Today we’re talking with Jeremy Kyncl, owner of Hierophant Meadery in Mead, WA. Jeremy and his wife Michelle have a background in herbs and are focused on local-sourcing their mead ingredients and creating a uniquely local product. On Back to Basics, Jeremy will be staying on to talk with AJ, Manny, Hamish and I about metheglins. Adding spices and plants to meads is a tradition that goes back as f...

9-13-16 - Tonight we're talking with John Harris, owner of Harris Meadery in Orange Park Florida, near Jacksonville. John runs the meadery with his wife Melissa and their daughters Amelia and Amanda. Harris Meadery is just getting going, and have two flagship meads they are offering - a Key Lime Pie honey wine and and a soon-to-be-release Cherry Raspberry Currant honey wine. Florida is slowly gett...

9-6-16 Tonight Sergio Moutela from Melovino Mead is back with us, through the luck of me having a scheduling snafu. Sergio is coming up on 2 years in business, and all along, he's been publishing blog posts about what he's learned in his journey so far. We're going to talk with him about that journey, and see what we can learn! He'll be sticking around to talk with us about braggots in Back to Bas...

8-30-16 Tonight we're visiting with one of the meaderies I had the opportunity to visit when I was in Michigan last month. Cellarmen's, in Hazel Park, MI is the brainchild of four metal-loving, hard charging guys who started with a passion for creating award-winning meads that will get people talking. And they charged off to create some pretty damn amazing meads. Those of you that know me are awar...

8-23-16 Buzzed Bee Meadery in Iowa Buzzed Bee Meadery got started as a decision between bees and chickens. Thank goodness the bees won! Years ago, Wayne Spohnheimer and his wife Michelle got interested in bees and honey. And Wayne got interested in mead. Fast forward several years, and Buzzed Bee Meadery is opening in September of this year, near Melbourne, Iowa, just 30 minutes from Des Moines. T...

8-16-16 Today we're talking with Deborah Lee, owner of Queen Bee Brews in Denver, CO, which is opening THIS WEEKEND on August 20!! Started by Deborah Lee, a homebrewer since 2003, she got tired of the 40 odd carboys in residence and needed to re-gain some elbow room. She had been encouraged by many folks for several years to make the leap to pro and she finally listened. Deborah worked part-time a...

8-9-16 Meridian Hive Meadery in Austin has been making mead since 2012, and winning awards all the way. The guys do a lot of session meads and kick but while doing it! Eric and Mike make amazing mead! Eric also runs the Texas Mead Fest and competition which is coming up in September as well. Meridian Hive is big on balance in their meads, and does mostly session meads, the majority of them on draf...

7-19-16 Mead - the fastest growing segment of the craft alcoholic beverage industry, yet most people know so little about it. Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor, mead lover, AMMA board member and legislative committee member, and owner, with her husband of Kookoolan Farms in Oregon, aims to change that. She has written and is in the process of editing and self-publishing her book, 'The Art of Mead Tasting a...

7-12-16 – Today we’re talking with David and Maciej, owners of Arktos Meadery in Grand Rapids, MI. They have 7 meads right now, including a pumpkin mead (that one caught my eye!! On Back to Basics, we’re talking about ‘When Your Mead Goes Wrong’. If you’ve ever had a mead go weird, turn into vinegar, burn dry when it was supposed to be sweet, turn up tasting like gasoline or anything else, then we...

7-5-16 Today we're talking with Mike Kiker, owner of Celestial Meads and Sassan Mossanen, general manger of Denali Brewing in Talkeetna, Alaska. This is a new thing, because Mike is selling Celestial Meads to Denali Brewing, and staying on as a mead-maester, to help them integrate the meads into their business, be an ambassador, and teach them how to make award-winning mead. There have been a lot...

6-28-16 GotMead Live is 1 Year Old! June 30 marks our one year anniversary, and we're tickled to have Ken Schramm back with us. Ken was kind enough to be the first guest on GML last year, and he's coming back to tell us what's going on with Schramm's Mead now, and also to help us talk about using fruit in your mead. You may not know, but Ken has a small and carefully curated orchard and berry farm...

6-21-16 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...

6-17-2016 - Today we're doing something different. I'm dealing with some things, and didn't have time to get a guest for this week, so we're all about just making mead. Today, our continuing series 'Making Mead: Back to Basics' is talking fruit. Fruit in your mead. What fruit, why fruit, and how fruit. AJ, Manny, Ryan and I will be spending the entire show (not sure how long it will be) talking ab...

6-7-2016 We are off to the Great White North! This episode we will be talking with John Bryans, owner of Munro Honey and Mead in Ontario, Canada (finally A.J. gets the mead!!).

This week, we have Adam Crockett, owner of Haymaker Meadery in Montgomeryville, PA. Haymaker creates 'modern mead with a folk flair'. They are out there working to change the face of mead, and bring a 'new view' to the mead world. We're really interested to see what they're going to do!

5-24-16 - Yep, did it again. This time, I was out of town almost the entire break, a good bit of it in the mountains with crap connectivity, so I *do* have a weak excuse. (or at least a weak connectivity excuse) But never fear, we've lined up a great series for you, and will give you good show! This week, we have Bruce Leslie, president of the Texas Mead Association, which also hosts the Texas Mea...

5-3-16 Yep, late again. I'm planning to fix that in the next series. This is the last GML until May 24, we are taking a 2 week break to set up the next series. Today we're talking with Todd, Jhett and Andrew with Leaky Roof Meadery in Buffalo, MO. Leaky Roof got started out of a failed meadery project that the guys were involved with, and the name comes from an association with a nearby railroad a...

Tonight we're chatting with Ken Schultz, owner of Hidden Legend Winery in Victor, MT. And on Making Mead-Back to Basics, we're talking BOMM and making good mead fast.

Tonight we talk with Jon Talkington of Brimming Horn Meadery, and dig into hydrometers and ABV/alcohol content, ingredient quality and care and feeding of yeast.

Viking Alchemist Meadery actually happened as sort of a surprise, when Robin’s son said ‘lets start a meadery’, and his wife did the research and found that the craft beverage industry was going nuts. On 'Making Good Mead - Back to Basics', we're talking creating good habits.

Jon Hamilton, owner of White Winter Winery in Duluth, WI, and our new show - "Making Great Mead - Back to Basics" with AJ, Manny and Ryan

Bray Denard created a recipe that produces a really good good mead in just 24 days, and his recipe has gone viral, and looks to surpass even Joe's Ancient Orange as the most popular mead recipe on the internet.

March 22, 2016 - In this episode we are doing something a little different. We've double trouble again, with both the AMMA and the Mazer Cup in attendance!