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3-1-22 Shawn Darryl Harris – Wao Kele Honey and mead with Hawaiian honey

3-1-22 Shawn Darryl Harris – Wao Kele Honey and mead with Hawaiian honey

by Vicky Rowe | Mar 1, 2022 | Articles, GotMead Live | 0 comments

3-1-22 Tonight on Gotmead Live we’re headed to paradise, Hawaii, that is. We’re getting together with Shawn Darryl Harris, honey wrangler at Wao Kele Honey Farm, and meadmaker. You may have seen Shawn in the various mead groups on Facebook, letting people...
10-2-18 Ryan Carlson – Pairing Yeasts to Meads – Part 2

10-2-18 Ryan Carlson – Pairing Yeasts to Meads – Part 2

by Vicky Rowe | Oct 2, 2018 | Articles, GotMead Live | 0 comments

https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15865558/10_2_18_ryan_carlson_pairing_yeasts_to_meads_part_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More10-2-18 We’re dropping into teaching mode again tonight, and bringing in Ryan to...
11-21-17 Making Modern Mead – Peter Bakulic and Ryan Carlson

11-21-17 Making Modern Mead – Peter Bakulic and Ryan Carlson

by Vicky Rowe | Nov 21, 2017 | Articles | 0 comments

https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/13389176/11_21_17_making_modern_mead_ryan_carlson_and_peter_bakulic.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More11-21-17 We will have a mead celebrity on with this tonight! Peter Bakulic will...
Ancient Mead Making Meets Modern Science Part 2: Isolating a Pure Yeast from a Wild Honey Culture (Honey Bug)

Ancient Mead Making Meets Modern Science Part 2: Isolating a Pure Yeast from a Wild Honey Culture (Honey Bug)

by Bray Denard | Jul 21, 2016 | Articles, Bray Denard, Journeys of a Meadmaker, Mead Resources | 0 comments

Ancient Mead Making Meets Modern Science Part 2: Isolating a Pure Yeast from a Wild Honey Culture (Honey Bug) This article is the second of a series that combine the ancient ways of making mead with modern science. The first article demonstrates how to generate a wild...
Ancient Mead Making Meets Modern Science: Wild Yeast Culture from Honey (Honey Bug)

Ancient Mead Making Meets Modern Science: Wild Yeast Culture from Honey (Honey Bug)

by Bray Denard | Jul 20, 2016 | Articles, Bray Denard, Journeys of a Meadmaker, Mead References | 3 comments

Ancient Mead Making Meets Modern Science Part 1: Wild Yeast Culture from Honey (Honey Bug) This article is the first of a series that combine the ancient ways of making mead with modern science. The first article demonstrates how to generate a wild yeast culture from...
What I’ve Learned in 20 months since opening my meadery

What I’ve Learned in 20 months since opening my meadery

by Sergio Moutela | Jun 17, 2016 | Articles | 0 comments

So it seems I am a month late for my latest installment of “So you want to own a Meadery”… Things have been busy lately to say the least. I thought I’d share this post here through FB as well this time.

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