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12-3-24 We are headed for the warmer climes down in Mexico today for our last show of the year. We’ll be talking with Alberto Leyva, owner of Hidromiel Aliens Kaab in Bacalar, Mexico.
Alberto has been a Beekeeper in the Riviera Maya, Bacalar, Quintana Roo since 2013, and founded of Aliens Kaab in 2019. His expertise ranges from hive management to the fermentation of artisanal mead, ensuring a product that embodies the richness of local honey. Alberto is passionate about fermentation processes and wild yeasts, and crafts his mead through cold and wild fermentation, which in his point of view results in unique flavors and aromas while making the mead gentler on the body. His goal is to reflect the natural wealth of our surroundings in every bottle.
Alberto has won some medals and recognitions and considers himself an eternal learner.
The motto at Aliens Kaab is “let yourself be abducted by new experiences”, and they take the term abduct as arousing in someone a powerful attraction and that is what they are looking for, to abduct more people to discover this great world of Mead.
Join us to hear more about Alberto and his mead making adventures!
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Upcoming Shows
- On break for the month of December, we’re back in January!!
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
- Dec 4 – Kingview Meadhouse and Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA – Trivia Night
- Dec 7 – Honeytree Meadery, Nashville, TN – Mead Making Classes
- Dec 7 – Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO – Emma Nobbe Rocks the House live music
- Dec 7 – Honey & Hops Breworks, Fredricksburg, VA – Winter Wine Festival
- Dec 8 – Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC – Tasting with the Meadmakers
- Dec 10 – Oppegaard Meadery, Tukwila, WA – Trivia Night
- Dec 12 – KingView Mead, Mount Lebanon, PA – Good Brother Earl live music
- Dec 12 – Oppegaard Meadery, Tukwila, WA – Mead and Cheese pairing
- Dec 13 – Blom Mead + Cider, Ann Arbor, MI – Permanent Jewelry with BOGO deal for multiple chains!
- Dec 14 – Crafted Artisan Winery, Mogadore, OH – Mead 101 Class
- Dec 18 – Kingview Meadhouse and Winery, Mount Lebanon, PA – Trivia Night
- Dec 20 – Valkyries Horn Mead Competition Entries open!
- Dec 20 – Midwinter Homebrew Competition Entries open!
- Dec 20 – Apis Mead and Winery, Carnegie, PA – Springs and Arrows live music
- Dec 21 – Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO – Blight of Many live music
- Dec 21 – Mjodgard, Haslev, Denmark – Celebrate the Winter Solstice with a 2 course dinner, mead and a solstice ceremony
- Jan 25 – Crafted Artisan Winery, Mogadore, OH – Mead 101 Class
- Feb 6 – Mjodgard, Haslev, Denmark – Mead and Food Pairing at Bregnen
You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com
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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