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6-9-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we’re continuing our series, bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and going to Arizona. We’ll be talking with Carvin Wilson, Allen Martin and Warren Earle. These gentlemen are prominent in the southwest brewing scene, and bring some powerful mead making chops to the table.

Carvin Wilson is a mead advocate, admirer of mead, passionate beekeeper, collector of honey, lover of yeast, friend of technology and mead maker.  He is proud of being able to support small meadery startups, promoting best practices for creating mead, and serving as the moderator of the Modern Mead Makers group on Facebook.  After being badgered out of his Hobbit hole, he has exploded on the mead scene and cleaned up with many medals to include four Mazer Cups.  He’s also a very proud husband to Robin Wilson, grandfather, father, a retired Marine.and successful business owner with a portfolio consisting of over fifteen companies.  Additionally, he is proud of having over 300 different varieties of honey, accumulating thousands of gallons from all over the world.

Carvin is a huge supporter of the AMMA and the Mazer Cup International.  This year he bacame the competition manager for the Mazer Cup Home Competition, as well as management of the AMMA National Meadmaker of the Year competition.

He generously hosts several tables at the MCI Mead Mixer to allow smaller meaderies to showcase their meads at the largest mead tasting in the world.

Allen Martin was born and raised in Massachusetts, but he’s been living in Phoenix, AZ for last 28 years.

Allen served in the military for 11 years,  including in the first Gulf War. He’s married to a beer brewing beauty and has a grown son.

His first introduction to mead was at a bottle share where Carvin Wilson was in attendance about 4 years ago. He’s been making it ever since. He’s a huge fan of session traditionals.

Here he’s in the ‘mead room’ at the Mazer Cup, where the meads to be judged are sorted and staged. He calls it ‘Mead Heaven’. We agree!

Warren Earle has been a homebrewer for 8 years and like many, started with the Mr. Beer kits. Warren quickly progressed from then on.

It wasn’t until he joined a local homebrew club where he discovered mead. Some good, some not so good. And then he met Carvin Wilson. Being the person he is, Carvin took him under his wing and taught him be the mead maker he is today.
Winning Mazer Cups with his 2nd and 3rd ever batches, Warren ever since has been winning multiple awards every year with his meads and finishing 6th place at last years’ AMMA National Mead Maker of the Year competition and 2nd place in NHC (Nationally) for his Hairy Vetch Traditional.
Warren a 10 year Navy vet lives in Mesa, AZ with his wife Liz and their 3 dogs and serves as a moderator for the Modern Mead Makers FB Group and a committee member for the MCI competition.

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Coming up:
  • We’ll be on break until July 14 – Vicky has some family things to take care of. We’ll be back then, with another awesome group of meadmakers, this time from California!
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