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11-3-20 Dan McNevin – Foraging Mead Ingredients and Making Weirdomels (Experimental)

11-3-20 Dan McNevin – Foraging Mead Ingredients and Making Weirdomels (Experimental)

11-3-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Dan McNevin. Dan is a home meadmaker with a penchant for foraging his mead ingredients and also for making weirdomels (technically known as experimental meads).

National Honey Board Holds Virtual Honey R&D Summit

National Honey Board Holds Virtual Honey R&D Summit

The National Honey Board will host a virtual Honey Summit for food and beverage product developers and marketers, and we encourage you to invite any potential or existing customers to the event to learn more about honey. The ideal attendee is anyone who is involved with marketing or new product development at a large food or non-alcoholic beverage company.

10-20-20 Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo – W A Meadworks – Expanding Production and Making Great Meads

10-20-20 Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo – W A Meadworks – Expanding Production and Making Great Meads

10-20-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Roger Wanner and Joe Abruzzo, owners of W A Meadwerks on Long Island in New York. They bill themselves as ‘two guys making mead’. But it’s more than that. They bootstrapped a meadery out of almost nothing, and are rapidly growing their place, even with all the problems from being in the middle of COVID.

10-13-20 Time for Cysers! Gold Medal winners Adam Bystrom, Allen Martin, and Kevin Meintsma

10-13-20 Time for Cysers! Gold Medal winners Adam Bystrom, Allen Martin, and Kevin Meintsma

10-13-20Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, it’s Fall (at least on the calendar, lol) and our minds are on cysers. Crisp fall evenings, cool temps, and a nice cyser, maybe around the fire with friends. What could be better?

Over the last several shows, we’ve had a lot of folks asking about oaking meads, and so we’re going to talk about that tonight. Adam has been experimenting with oaking for a long time, and gave a talk at MeadCon 2018 with Rocky Mountain Barrels on oak.

9-29-20 Adam Crockett – Haymaker Meadery – Oaking Mead

9-29-20 Adam Crockett – Haymaker Meadery – Oaking Mead

9-29-20 9-29-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we’re meeting with Adam Crockett of Haymaker Meadery to talk about oaking meads.

Over the last several shows, we’ve had a lot of folks asking about oaking meads, and so we’re going to talk about that tonight. Adam has been experimenting with oaking for a long time, and gave a talk at MeadCon 2018 with Rocky Mountain Barrels on oak.

9-22-20 Keith Seiz and Alison Wuebbels – National Honey Board

9-22-20 Keith Seiz and Alison Wuebbels – National Honey Board

9-22-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we’re looking forward to talking with Keith Seiz and Alison Wuebbels with the National Honey Board. We’ll be finding out what the Honey Board has been up to, and talking about their Honey20 Project, the Mead Crafters Competition (2nd year!), and the Honey Spirits Competition, as well as their other involvement with honey in craft beverages.

9-15-20 Brian Wing – Green Bench Brewing, Cody Lenz and Joe Leigh – Florida Mead

9-15-20 Brian Wing – Green Bench Brewing, Cody Lenz and Joe Leigh – Florida Mead

9-8-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we’re bringing back Sergio, and we’re going to turn him and Kevin loose on session meads. So we’re going to talk *more* on session meads. Since it’s a hot topic both for home and commercial mead makers, and as a mead making approach seems to be approaching one of the most popular styles, we’re going to dig further into it.

9-8-20 Sergio Moutela Talks Sessions with Kevin Meintsma

9-8-20 Sergio Moutela Talks Sessions with Kevin Meintsma

9-8-20 Tonight on Gotmead Live at 9PM ET, we’re bringing back Sergio, and we’re going to turn him and Kevin loose on session meads. So we’re going to talk *more* on session meads. Since it’s a hot topic both for home and commercial mead makers, and as a mead making approach seems to be approaching one of the most popular styles, we’re going to dig further into it.

9-1-20 Susan Ruud – Midwest Mead and Running a Meadery in Time of COVID

9-1-20 Susan Ruud – Midwest Mead and Running a Meadery in Time of COVID

9-1-20 Toinight at 9PM ET we’re hanging out with Susan Ruud, owner of Prairie Rose Meadery in Fargo, ND. And we’ve guest host Kevin Meintsma on with us! We’ll be talking on mead (of course), particularly spiced mead, as well as what it’s been like running a meadery during COVID.

8-25-20 Petar Bakulic – Making Great Pyments

8-25-20 Petar Bakulic – Making Great Pyments

8-18-20 Pyments, mead made with grapes and/or grape juice, is a popular topic in meadmaking recently. There are endless possibilities in making pyments, and we’ve tried some really amazing ones. We’re doing a dive into pyments over the next couple shows, and decided to bring in Peter Bakulic to talk about them. Pete has extensive experience in both winemaking and meadmaking.

8-25-20 Petar Bakulic – Making Great Pyments

8-18-20 Petar Bakulic – Winemaking for Meadmakers

8-18-20 Pyments, mead made with grapes and/or grape juice, is a popular topic in meadmaking recently. There are endless possibilities in making pyments, and we’ve tried some really amazing ones. We’re doing a dive into pyments over the next couple shows, and decided to bring in Peter Bakulic to talk about them. Pete has extensive experience in both winemaking and meadmaking.

8-11-20 Billy Beltz, Eric Holden and Harold Gulbransen – Southern California Mead

8-11-20 Billy Beltz, Eric Holden and Harold Gulbransen – Southern California Mead

8-11-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we are continuing our regional mead makers series and talking with Billy Beltz, Erick Holden and Harold Gulbransen, all in Southern California. Each is a very talented meadmaker, and we’ll talking about (of course) meadmaking, and how they do things in SoCal.