Episodes

2-4-20 Keith Seiz, MeadCon Speaker – National Honey Board and mead 04.02.2020 1:58:21

2-4-20 Tonight at 9PM Eastern we're talking with Keith Seiz, who works with the National Honey Board, and he'll be speaking on Mead Perceptions; On Consumers and Mead Makers at the AMMA MeadCon in Broomfield, CO March 17-19. He'll be talking on whether consumer perceptions of mead match mead maker perceptions. The National Honey Board set out to find the answer to this question and more. This sem...

1-28-20 Laura Angotti, MeadCon Keynote – the history of mead and historic recipes 28.01.2020 2:32:33

1-28-20 Tonight at 9PM we are tickled to have on the show Laura Angotti, keynote at the 2020 MeadCon, and author of "Wellcome Mead: 105 Mead Recipes from the 17th and 18th Century English Receipt Books at the Wellcome Library" and "Cider and Perry in Britain to 1700: A Collection of Material from Primary and Selected Secondary Sources". She is also the owner of the Mystery of Mead website, where s...

1-21-20 Tony Qualls – MeadCon Speaker – Big Berry Melomels and Manic Meadery 21.01.2020 2:01:08

1-21-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Tony Qualls, owner of Manic Meadery and speaker at the 2020 MeadCon, where he'll be giving a seminar on Maximum Fruit: Big Berry Bombs and Other Melomels. Tony is not just a meadery owner, he's also a musician. He toured in the band Groovatron for 12 years, doing over 1500 shows in 12 years (makes me tired just thinking about all that travel!). Tony is...

1-14-2020 Sergio Moutela – MeadCon speaker – What I Learned in 5 Years 14.01.2020 2:38:49

1-14-2020 Tonight at 9PM EST we're kicking off our featuring of speakers at MeadCon, and opening with Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery and the president of the AMMA. Sergio opened Melovino just over 5 years ago, and during that time he's learned a ton about operating a meadery, making better mead and what people like in a mead. He's wrangled with his state to allow meaderies to even exist...

1-7-20 Happy New Year! Carvin Wilson on Mead Competitions and Judging, Mead Trends, Making Mead 07.01.2020 2:00:04

1-7-20 We're back from our December break, and off with a bang! Join us at 9PM Eastern tonight for the first 2020 episode of GotMead Live. Tonight's guest is Carvin Wilson, mead maker, mead industry supporter, and owner of Carvin Software. If you haven't heard of Carvin, you're not hanging out with mead folk. Carvin, who lives near Phoenix, AZ, is a long time mead maker, started getting involved n...

11-26-19 Amy Olsen and Annie Zipser – Michigan Mead Alliance, making mead, and mead talk 26.11.2019 2:16:02

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...

11-5-19 2 Mike Faul – Rabbits Foot Mead – peak honey, Irish mead and meadery IT 06.11.2019

11-5-19 9PM EST Tonight we're talking with Mike Faul, owner of Rabbit's Foot Meadery in Sunnyvale, CA about several things. Mike has been in the mead industry for over 20 years, and has been a mead maker for much longer, having been involved in mead since the beginning of the resurgence of mead in the US. We'll be talking about Mike's adventures in Ireland, creating an Irish mead with Irish honey,...

11-5-19 1 Mike Faul – Rabbits Foot Mead – peak honey, Irish mead and meadery IT 06.11.2019

11-5-19 Mike Faul – Rabbits Foot Mead – peak honey, Irish mead and meadery IT 05.11.2019 2:26:13

11-5-19 9PM EST Tonight we're talking with Mike Faul, owner of Rabbit's Foot Meadery in Sunnyvale, CA about several things. Mike has been in the mead industry for over 20 years, and has been a mead maker for much longer, having been involved in mead since the beginning of the resurgence of mead in the US. Mike is not just owner of one of the largest meaderies in the country, he's also an IT and au...

10-29-19 – Sergio Moutela – pyments, beer style meads, weirdomels and recipes 29.10.2019 2:54:02

10-29-19 We're back after a break due to some scheduling conflicts. Tonight we're talking with Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery and President of the American Mead Makers Association. He is also the guy who created the TOSNA protocol for mead making which he hosts on Mead Made Right. And he's launched a mead podcast that is excellent. which you can listen to on the MMR website. You can tel...

10-8-19 Adam Crockett on oaking, barrels and making mead in Pét Nat style 08.10.2019 2:10:04

10-8-19 We're talking tonight with Adam Crockett, owner of Haymaker Meadery. Before starting Haymaker in 2015, Adam worked in the barrel industry for 4 years selling barrels to breweries, wineries, and meaderies all over the US and Canada. He has worked with large breweries like Allagash and Jolly Pumpkin and small local breweries in every corner. He has worked directly with distilleries and winer...

10-1-19 Ryan Carlson – Creating recipes to a flavor profile – part 2 01.10.2019 2:54:51

10-1-19 - Tonight we're back in mead building mode again, and have Ryan back to talk about picking the yeast and honey and other ingredients to achieve specific flavor profiles. This is continuing from last week's discussion. Get your questions in to us! Post on Facebook or Twitter, or join us on the chat channel tonight! We all have the flavors and tastes we like, and it's different for everyone....

9-24-19 Ryan Carlson – Creating recipes to a flavor profile 24.09.2019 2:28:37

9-24-19 - 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...

9-17-19 Traci Kuhfuss and Amy Olsen – women in meadmaking and making great meads 17.09.2019 2:34:07

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...

9-3-19 Mateusz Blaszczyk and Krzysztof Jarek, Kings of Mead Competition and European Mead Makers Association Conference 03.09.2019 1:38:03

9-3-19 Tonight we're winging our way to Poland to talk with Mateusz Blaszczyk and Krzysztof Jarek with the Kings of Mead. We will not be live tonight, as our friends in Poland cannot do the live time slot. Kings of Mead is three home meadmaking friends, Mateusz, Krzysztof and Rafal Gorecki, who have a website and do a video cast about mead. They're passionate about spreading the word of mead. They...

8-27-19 Sam Slaughter, Author of Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum (and a secret guest) 27.08.2019 2:13:25

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 wor...

8-20-19 Kent Waldeck – Crafted Artisan Meadery 20.08.2019 2:34:34

8-20-19 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...

8-12-19 Kevin Martin – GoodRoads Cider and Mead 13.08.2019 2:12:47

8-13-19 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...

8-6-19 Raúl de la Garza – Freya Brewing in Monterrey Mexico 06.08.2019 2:35:23

8-6-19 Tonight we’re going to Monterrey, Mexico to talk with Raúl de la Garza, owner of Freya Brewery. Raúl started making mead on the summer of 2008. It all started with questioning what did the vikings drink back in the day (His family has Danish roots and they’re into history and food). After learning about mead and finding out that no one was making/selling mead in northern Mexico (Monterrey)...

7-30-19 Julie and Rana – Recolte Meads 30.07.2019 2:44:45

Tonight at 9PM EST, we're off to Grosse Pointe Park (near Detroit for those who don't know) to visit with Julie and Rana (RJ), owners of Recolte Meads. Recolte Meads has been open for about 2 years, and opened their tasting room on April 23 this year. Julie has been making mead for several years. Back before she started making mead, she had a tenant who couldn’t make rent, and in the course of her...

7-23-19 Curt Stock – Valkyries Horn Mead Competition and Talking Mead 23.07.2019 2:05:20

7-23-19 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....

7-16-19 Mike Fagan and DJ Kurtz – Honnibrook Meadery – amazing session meads 16.07.2019 2:02:38

7-16-19 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...

7-2-19 SPECIAL – ON LOCATION at B. Nektar Meadery with Kerri Dalhofer and Miranda Johnson 02.07.2019 1:12:19

7-2-19 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,...

6-4-19 Brian Galbreath – Unpossible Mead – Traditionals to Sessions and Sours 04.06.2019 2:33:57

6-4-19 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 mea...

5-28-19 Steve Mertz – the Canadian Sasquatch – Mead Methodologies 28.05.2019 2:13:21

5-28-19 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...