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Tonight at 9PM ET, we will be chatting with Christian Mlotschek, a home meadmaker in Ontario, Canada. Christian is a newish meadmaker, and has jumped in with both feet to make meads.
Christian’s brewing adventures started in 2022 when he joined the Society for Creative Anachronism. He’s brewed about 40 batches of mead, beer and cider including a few historical meads from various manuscripts.
This past year he started competing in both beer and mead. His “Mixed up Mel” melomel won gold at the Ales Open in April ’24, and he received a Gold for his Semi-Sweet Wildflower Trad. at Brew Slam in December ’24.
He did my first commercial collaboration this past November with Counterpoint Brewing in Kitchener allowing him to learning experience on larger equipment, bringing his Battered Ram Buckwheat Braggot to the masses. It was well received and mostly sold out in a short period.
His current projects are:
- a period adjacent tradional mead recipe where he conscripted 8 other brewers in the SCA to help him fill a mead barrel that he purchased from Rosewood Estates Winery in Ontario.
- shared mead with and taught some local Cubans on his recent trip how to make it with the promise he gets to try their attempts when he goes back next.
- bench trials of various varietals to do a sampling of source honey and fermented mead, including his local wildflower, fireweed, coriander, meadowfoam, blueberry blossom and Ontario Buckwheat.
The future is hopefully contuing to build his library, more competitions and experimental archeology making recipes from various sources and creating period style Brewing equipment to showcase at demos.
Join us to chat with Christian and explore meadmaking!
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Upcoming Shows
- April 22 – Arne Defurne – Clockwork Bee Mead, Antwerp Belgium
- May 6 – Alen RadoŠević – Fool Moon mead, Transylvania
Show links and notes
- Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff
- The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff
- Let There Be Session Meads by Rob Ratliff
Upcoming Events
- April 9 – Green Mountain Mashers, Essex, VT – Mead Series Part 4: Specialty Meads
- April 10 – Red, Wine and Brew, Mentor, OH – Mead Tasting with meads from Brothers Drake Meadery – Columbus, OH
Dutch Creek Meadery – Athens, OH
Four Fires Meadery – Maumee, OH
Feisty Brood Meadery – Northfield, OH - April 10 – Viking Alchemist Meadery, Smyrna, GA – Mead and Mini painting
- April 11 – Artifice Ales and Mead, Mannheim, PA – Line Dancing!
- April 11 – St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI – Kyle Brown live music
- April 12 – Cupka’s Bee Good Meadery, Auburn, IN – Mead Makers night
- April 12 – Mershon’s Cidery, Stoughton, WI – Wisconsin Cider and Mead Festival featuring 20 meaderies and cideries
- April 12 – St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI – Touch of Gray live music
- April 12 – Dawg Gone Bees Meadery and Apiary, Hanover, PA – Mead Making class
- April 12 – The Great Minnesotan Mead Tour, St, Paul, MN – 3 meaderies, tasting flights, charcuterie and lunch!
- April 16 – Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA – Trivia Night
- April 18 – Shiny Apple Winery, Howell, MI – Mead Tasting and Art Display and Summer Flavors Reveal
- April 19 – Grimsby Hollow Meadery, Middleville, MI – Drink Mead, Learn Things: German Renaissance Armory and the Military Revolution
- April 20 – St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI – Easter Brunch and Egg Hunt
- April 25 – St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI – Luke Woltanski live music
- April 26 – Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO – Sigurblot: A Spring Viking Festival
- April 26 – Moonjoy Meadery, Lenoir, NC – Mead and Mindfulness
- April 26 – Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO – Tanglefoot Collective Live Music
- April 29 – St. Ambrose Meadery, Beulah, MI – The R&B Sushi Experience – make 3 sushi rolls, all materials provided
- May 2 – Patriot Brewery and Homebrew Supplies, Elkhorn, NE – Mead Making Seminar
- May 3 – Dawg Gone Bees Meadery and Apiary, Hanover, PA – Mead Making class
- May 3 – Four Brothers Meadery, Festus, MO – Zoe Vox live music
- May 3 – Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA – Trivia Night
- May 4 – St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI – Double Disc Open frisbee golf – May the Fourth Be With You!
- May 8 – Kingview Mead, Mt. Lebanon, PA – Day One acoustic music
- May 17 – Sugarbelt Mead Festival, Crown Pointe, IN – Many meaderies with their wares at this festival – live music, food trucks and more!
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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.
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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