The Mead House

Tonight we review a few meads sent to us by Ryan, mead cocktails, and much more! Enjoy the show!

Brainstorming episode! Started out talking freeze-dried fruits, and moved into some brainstorming for some fresh ideas on mead making. We covered the list of ingredients including Magnolia flowers, cucumbers, lemons, basil, nutmeg and a few others. Enjoy the show!

Mississippi Chris joins us tonight after being AWOL for a couple weeks. Tonight, we discuss a question that a listener submitted about using enzymes in melomels to break down fruit, we also talk about another ingredient that’s picking up notice in mead making, hops. Jeff & Ryan run us through setting up and hosting your own small mead tasting.

Aaron returns from his adventure to South Carolina, and on the way stops in at Schramm’s meadery to have a sip of the infamous Heart of Darkness $100 a bottle mead! Ryan enters one braggot in two separate competitions, one for mead, the other for alternative beer and medals! We go around the table with projects the boys are working on, JD has a “leftover” braggot recipe he solicits ideas for. JD a...

Award-winning mead maker,Tom Repas, joins the show and shares some of his knowledge about mead making. The crew also answers a question about honey from listener Ben Duthu. Enjoy the show!

Tonight we respond to a couple of listeners. Angie shares her concerns about the amount of honey used in a braggot for competition, and David asks about aging, bottles vs. carboys. Enjoy!

BONUS EPISODE! The boys review a couple more offerings from JD, Mississippi Chris finally gets his Mazer Cup score sheet and says, “I wanted to make a close copy of Ken Schramm’s Heart of Darkness which everyone could make using readily available ingredients and without the need to grow your own orchard. I bought some frozen fruit from Walmart along with some juice and concentrate, used some honey...

Aaron sent the guys at the table three bottles of mead from an experiment he did using different hops, Crystal, Calypso and Chinook. The Chinook hopped mead was clearly the winner when the night was over. JD had also sent out some meads, and several were reviewed by the guys with his Bourbon Barrel Braggot coming out the winner. Enjoy the show!

We started out the show with a few facebook acknowledgments, then moved into a tasting session of a couple of JD’s meads. We also talked about steeping grains for use in meads. Enjoy the show!

We begin to explore beer on the show tonight in hopes of coming up with a Braggot mead recipe that incorporates the same ingredients in beer brewing. An avid listener, Brian Funk, gives us a call, had some questions on oaking and PH. Enjoy the show!

Episode 2, Sweet Mead. Episode 2 is about making a simple sweet mead for beginners. Starting with 20 pounds of orange blossom honey and 5 1/2 gallons of water, we step through putting this mead together. We will monitor this mead for the next few weeks on the show, and talk about where you should be in relation to time. This is a simple mead, the recipe is featured on our website. We also talked a...