Episode 28 – Petar Bakulic – Mazer Cup International
February 16, 2016 – Today we’re talking with Petar Bakulic (Oskaar), president of the Mazer Cup International Mead competition and Mead Mixer public pour.
2-9-16 – Hangin’ with the Meadmakrs
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Feb 9 – Well, it’s a party on Gotmead Live tonight! Because, Mardi Gras (and Tysen needs his Untappd check-in for Mardi Gras). We’ll be talking mead, meadmaking, and anything else that we find interesting.
1-27-16 – Nathan & Colin Ryan – FallenTimber Meadery
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In this episode we hang out with Nathan and Colin Ryan, brothers in mead at Fallentimber Meadery in Alberta, Canada. Sons of a beekeeper dad, these guys got their honey chops early in life, but headed out to have lives after they grew up.
1-20-16 – Mike Tripka – The Domras Cup
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January 26, 2016 – This week our guest is Mike Tripka, president of the Domras Cup, held in Savannah, Georgia every year by the Savannah Brewers League.
1-15-16 – Frank Golbeck – Golden Coast Mead
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This week we visit with the guys from Golden Coast Mead. Golden Coast started in 2012 in San Diego, CA and has been kicking butt ever since. The meadery is founded on not just a love for mead, but as a sustainable business, promoting the fact that mead is made using the renewable resource of honey.
1-6-16- Julia Herz – Brewers Association
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This week we will be talking with Julia Herz, long time meadmaker, and Craft Beer Program Director at the Brewers Association and Publisher of CraftBeer.com.
1-5-16 – Amina Harris – Director, Honey and Pollination Center, Robert Mondavi Institute
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For our first show in 2016, we’re tickled to have on the show Amina Harris, Director of the Honey and Pollination Center at the Mondavi Institute (the fermentation holy grail) at UC Davis in California.
A Year in the Life of a Meadery Owner – Part 7 (Year 2)
Eh what the hell… WHAT I’VE LEARNED IN 14 MONTHS SINCE OPENING A MEADERY I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can’t homebrew your way through running a meadery. You should consider starting your meadery with more equipment than...
11-26-15 – December 2015 – On Holiday!
Yes, it’s true, we will be going on holiday for the month of December, 2015! Stop whining, you can use this time to catch up on the episodes you haven’t had time to listen to yet, or go back to take those notes on that episode of Ask Oskaar. Yes, we have...
11-24-15 – Guy McConnell – Laughing Leprechaun Meadery
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Tonight on GotMeadLive – Guy McConnell, owner of Laughing Leprechaun Meadery, started home brewing beer in 1990 and making mead in 1992 while living in Alabama. He worked in high tech for 30 years, moving to Orlando, Florida and Huntersville, North Carolina before landing in Loveland Colorado where he has resided the past 17 years.
11-17-15 – Chris Webber – Outlanders Keep
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After a tour in Iraq, this National Guardsman started making wine and mead out of his garage, enrolled in classes at Northwest Wine Academy in Seattle, founded the American Mead Association, and is starting his own meadery. Tonight, we’ll meet Chris Webber from Outlanders Keep in Washington state.
11-10-15 – Jennifer & Troy Kost – Legendary Mead
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Jennifer and Troy Kost, owners of the soon-to-be-open Legendary Mead. They started what is the normal progression for homebrewers…started making beer later in college (who doesn’t?).
11-3-15 – Zeb Johnston – Lions Head Meadery
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Zeb Johnston of the soon-to-be-open Lions Head Mead. Zeb is a beekeeper who started selling local honey at Yorktown Market Days, a Farmers Market in Yorktown Virginia.
Milawa’s Walkabout Apiaries moves into mead production
COBWEBS and dust were to be expected.
But when twentysomethings Tracey Whitehead and her husband, Don, cleaned out the farm shed, they never expected to find hidden treasure. Lurking behind the long-forgotten piles of stuff were oak barrels full of liquid gold.
The barrels contained perfectly aged mead – a honey wine renowned in Viking feasts and medieval debauchery – made by Don’s father, Rod Whitehead, years before on a whim. The discovery led to what is now a burgeoning sideline for the bee-keeping Whiteheads of Milawa and their family’s Walkabout Apiaries business in North East Victoria.
10-27-15 – Casey Stuck -Eagle’s Landing Meadery
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Tonight on GotMeadLive – Casey Stuck, and partner and fellow winemaker Eric Taylor will be on our ‘in process and just started’ meadery series. Their winery/meadery is located in Rosati, MO and is called Eagles’ Landing.
