2-7-17 Creating Award Winning Meads without Aging - Billy Beltz - Lost Cause Meadery – Got Mead? The Largest Mead Resource on the Web

2-7-17 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 Meadery, in San Diego California. Lost Cause will be teaming up with a local Cidery and open a co-branded tasting room space and production facility in San Diego in late summer, early fall 2017 with locally sourced, complex carbonated meads.

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AMMA Mead Conference and MeadUp
Mazer Cup International Competition and Tasting Event
Yeast Washing Guide
Magnetic Stir plate for yeast starters
Economical stir plate
First Steps in Mead Culture – Pierre Rajott

Upcoming Events

Honey and Pollination Center at UC Davis – Feb 11 – Feast, a Celebration of Mead and Honey
St. Ambrose Cellars – Live music every Friday night – Thirsty Thursday (35% off Refills) – Open Mic Nights on Thursdays (6PM)
Golden Coast Mead – Feb 18 – Make Mead at Home class
Bos Meadery – Feb 8 – Music: All That Heaven Allows, and Feb 9: Comedy at the Meadery – A Charity Event
Meridian Hive Meadery – Feb 24 (and last Friday of every month) – Board Game Mead Up at the Tasting Room
Melovino Meadery – Feb 17 & Feb 18 – Mead and Chocolate Pairing
Oran Mor Artisan Mead – Feb 25 – Music at the Meadery – Intuitive Compass

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Vicky Rowe

Owner at Gotmead.com and Craft Beverage Marketing

Vicky Rowe has been active as a promoter and supporter of the mead industry since the mid-90's with Gotmead.com, and is totally serious about seeing the mead industry take its rightful place as a popular craft beverage on the world recreational drinking stage.

She is also an experienced marketing coach and consultant who has recently decided to focus her marketing expertise exclusively on the craft beverage market to help meaderies, cideries, breweries and distilleries expand their business and get more customers while doing what they love.

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