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7-7-15 – B. Nektar – Brad & Kerri Dalhofer

7-7-15 – B. Nektar – Brad & Kerri Dalhofer

We’ll be talking with Brad and Kerri Dalhofer, owners of B.Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, MI. Brad got his start on GotMead, and now he and Kerri have one of the largest independently owned meaderies in the U.S. We’ll be exploring when they discovered mead,...
Learn to Make Mead from U.C. Davis Enology Staff

Learn to Make Mead from U.C. Davis Enology Staff

You love to make mead. You’d like to make it even better. Maybe you find fermentation management a bit puzzling, or just want to figure out how to get good mead every time. Is this you? Then you *need* to attend this class. The Robert Mondavi Institute and the...
6-30-15 – Schramm’s Mead – Ken Schramm

6-30-15 – Schramm’s Mead – Ken Schramm

June 30, 2015 – Inaugural Show![break] Vicky, J.D. and A.J. shoot the breeze with Ken Schramm, author of “The Compleat Meadmaker” and owner of Schramm’s Mead in Ferndale, MI.[break]In ‘Ask Oskaar’, Pete answers questions about...

The Mead Lover’s Digest Complete Archive

Before GotMead, before Google, before dang near everything, The Mead Lover’s Digest, an email list sent out on a regular basis, was *the* place to hobnob with other meadmakers and put out your questions, recipes and ideas. The MLD is no longer running, but...

Sur lie, spice and Meadmaking

Thoughts on lees exposure and meadmaking from a question about lees exposure in a methyglin with lots of cinnamon in the GotMead.Com Forums Lees exposure can yield a wonderful mead if you know how to do it right. Honey matched with the right supporting ingredients,...

Oak and Mead

Oak and Mead   If George Washington made mead, he’d have chopped down an Oak Tree!   Throughout history, humanity has been fermenting just about anything we can get our opposable-thumbed mitts on for everything from the frenetic Dionysian rites in ancient...

Reviewing Mead – Standards for Posting Reviews on GotMead.Com

The best thing you can do when you encounter good or bad mead ANYWHERE is to point it out to whoever is selling it. Then make a note of the meadery name and tell them, then post it up here in the Commercial Mead Review section. That being said, I don’t mean for...

Yeast Fermentation and the Making of Beer and Wine

By: Luisa Alba-Lois, Ph.D.  & Claudia Segal-Kischinevzky, M.Sc. (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) © 2010 Nature Education  Citation: Alba-Lois, L. & Segal-Kischinevzky, C. (2010) Beer & Wine Makers. Nature Education 3(9):17...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1653 Sat 4 January 2014

Mead Lover's Digest #1653 Sat 4 January 2014   Mead Discussion Forum   Contents: last issue of the MLD (Mead Lovers Digest) Sad but practical (Bob) Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1652, 29 December 2013 (Greg Parsons) Sorry to say good bye; (Robert Lewis)...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1652 Sun 29 December 2013

Mead Lover's Digest #1652 Sun 29 December 2013   Mead Discussion Forum   Contents: next-to-last Mead-Lover's Digest (Mead Lovers Digest Admin)   NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the...

Hey, Honey

Hey, Honey Thanks to a swarm of innovators, there’s a new buzz surrounding mead. Story by Joshua M. BernsteinPhotos by Séan Alonzo Harris & Marvin Shaouni Imbibe Magazine Michael Fairbrother was never sweet on his career. As an engineer and later vice president...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1651 Sun 3 November 2013

Mead Lover's Digest #1651 Sun 3 November 2013   Mead Discussion Forum   Contents: Re: Sterilizing question (Steve Piatz) Re: Sterilizing question (Paul Shouse) Re: Sterilizing question (Dick Dunn)   NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1650 Fri 1 November 2013

Mead Lover's Digest #1650 Fri 1 November 2013   Mead Discussion Forum   Contents: Sterilizing question (Jack Eyton)   NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to mead@talisman.com. Use...

Mead Lover’s Digest #1649 Mon 14 October 2013

Mead Lover's Digest #1649 Mon 14 October 2013   Mead Discussion Forum   Contents: 2014 American Homebrewers Associations National Homebrewers – Mead ("Frey,…)   NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one....