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Calypso Curried Lamb Mess

Calypso Curried Lamb Mess

by | Jun 28, 2016 | Recipes | 0 comments

Lamb mess is one of our favorite recipes. It’s a thing we decided to create one night in a fit of ‘I don’t know, what do you want to have for dinner’ nights. (These nights happen a lot around here). It turns up around once a month, when we can...
Calypso Shrimp Alfredo

Calypso Shrimp Alfredo

by | Jun 28, 2016 | Recipes | 0 comments

The Better Half and I were casting about for what to make tfor dinner, and after rummaging in the freezer and finding a bag of shrimp, and then a quick stop at the store, and noticing that I had some Calypso pineapple melomel from Haymaker Meadery left over, decided a...
The Mystery of the “Secondary”

The Mystery of the “Secondary”

by | Jun 2, 2016 | Articles, Making Mead | 11 comments

In the world of mead making, especially amongst those who are new to the craft, there seems to be an abundance of mystery, uncertainty, and just general nonsense surrounding the concepts of a secondary ferment or fermenter.  Already you may be wondering what the difference is.  My goal is to clearly define what we’re really referring to with these terms, and what really happens “…in secondary.”

6-7-2016 Munro Honey and Mead and Back to Basics – Honey Varieties

6-7-2016 Munro Honey and Mead and Back to Basics – Honey Varieties

by | Jun 2, 2016 | GotMead Live | 0 comments

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6-7-2016 We are off to the Great White North! This episode we will be talking with John Bryans, owner of Munro Honey and Mead in Ontario, Canada (finally A.J. gets the mead!!).

5-31-16 Haymaker Meadery and Making Mead-Back to Basics

5-31-16 Haymaker Meadery and Making Mead-Back to Basics

by | May 31, 2016 | GotMead Live | 0 comments

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This week, we have Adam Crockett, owner of Haymaker Meadery in Montgomeryville, PA. Haymaker creates ‘modern mead with a folk flair’. They are out there working to change the face of mead, and bring a ‘new view’ to the mead world. We’re really interested to see what they’re going to do!

Strawberry Szechuan Short BOMM

Strawberry Szechuan Short BOMM

by | May 4, 2016 | Mead Recipes | 2 comments

This mead is a fantastic summer short mead. While it is very good straight out of primary, a few months of age really brings the honey sweetness back. I was going for an easy recipe that didn’t require finding fresh fruit (of course, you could use fresh fruit)....