GotMead Live is the culmination of years of you guys telling me we needed a new radio show, and the insistance of JD, then a very enthusiastic new meadmaker. At GotMead Live, just like on the website here, we’re all about mead. Making mead, finding mead, and drinking mead. The show will be broadcast live, so you can call in and be a part of the show. We’ll also be interviewing people in the mead industry, meadery owners, movers and shakers, and equipment and supplies folks, including beekeepers and honey providers.
Listen in!
Your hosts:
- Vicky Rowe – Founder and owner of Gotmead.com. I’ve been making mead since 1996, and have been hanging out with the folks in the industry almost as long. I make my home in North Carolina
- A.J. Ermenc – long time Gotmead forum member (ChevetteGirl), experienced meadmaker, and our North of the Border contingent from Ottawa, Canada.
- Kevin Meintsma – Kevin is a talented meadmaker from Minnesota, and makes amazing meads, especially a lot of session meads.
From time to time, when he can get away from work, we will have on with us Petar Bakulic (Oskaar on the forums). He is an experienced meadmaker and winemaker of over 30 years. He’ll talk mead, and answer questions from meadmakers. NEW!!! Our new series, AJ’s Making Good Mead: Back to Basics, starts on April 5, 2016. AJ will be taking you back to your meadmaking roots, and building good mead making techniques and tools from the ground up, to help create solid, repeatable mead making habits that will give you great mead all the time. Join us to talk mead!! We will be joined by other GotMeaders such as Mannye, Squatchy and other mead makers who have great info to bring in, so if you want to come play, let us know! Submit questions by clicking here. We want to hear from you! If you can’t call, then feel free to Tweet us on @realgotmead with your questions. [break][break]Follow the chatter on our Twitter feed Find us on the Facebook group, or in our forum. You can also join us live on our Slack space here.
Come hang out with us on alternate Tuesdays at 9pm ET. Not sure of the time if you’re not in this zone? Check here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
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8-11-20 Billy Beltz, Eric Holden and Harold Gulbransen – Southern California Mead
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:26:55 — 134.5MB)
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.
8-4-20 Rob Ratliff, Mead Recipes Author and Kevin Meintsma on Session Meads
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:18:41 — 127.0MB)
8-4-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we are going to talk more about session meads, which are the hottest thing in meadmaking these days. We’ll be chatting with Rob Ratlff, author of “The Big Book of Mead Recipes” and “Let There Be Melomels”, popular books of mead recipes. Rob’s next book will be “Let There be Session Meads”. We’re also bringing in Kevin Meintsma, a very talented session mead maker. The conversation should be really good!
6-9-20 Carvin Wilson, Warren Earle and Allen Martin – Mead Styling in the Southwest
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:25:56 — 133.6MB)
6-9-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we’re continuing our series, bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and going to Arizona. We’ll be talking with Carvin Wilson, Allen Martin and Warren Earle. These gentlemen are prominent in the southwest brewing scene, and bring some powerful mead making chops to the table.
6-2-20 Matt Weide, Adam Bystrom and Josh Holbrook – Midwest Mead Monsters Part 2
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:58:48 — 163.7MB)
6-2-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we’re continuing our series, bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and we’re starting in the midwest, this is part 2. We’ll be talking with Adam Bystrom, Josh Holbrook and Matt Weide. They are part of a number of talented meadmakers in Minnesota that are making some seriously amazing meads, and each of them is making some amazing award winning meads. We’re going to be talking mead, how they got into making it, what they’ve learned and what they’re making now.
5-26-20 Kevin Meintsma, Steve Fletty and Josh Mahoney – Midwest Mead Monsters
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:08:25 — 172.5MB)
5-26-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we’re taking a different tack, we’re bringing on a group of talented meadmakers to talk shop, and we’re starting in the midwest. We’ll be talking with Kevin Meintsma, Steve Fletty and Josh Mahoney. They are part of a meadmaking group in Minnesota that is making some seriously amazing meads, and each of them is an accomplished meadmaker. We’re going to be talking mead, how they got into making it, what they’ve learned and what they’re making now.
5-19-20 Tom Repas – Taking it to the Bees, Making Interesting Meads
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:50:21 — 156.0MB)
5-19-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we’ll be talking with Tom Repas, Master Beekeeper and owner of Canyon Rim Honey Bees, providing bees and honey in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tom speaks on beekeeping all over the country, and has presented several times at the AMMA MeadCon on both beekeeping and meadmaking. Tom has won a large number of awards for his mead as well.
We’ll be talking bees, breeding and hive management, and also about making great mead.
5-12-20 Aaron Schavey and Geoff Allen – Boneflower Craft Mead
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:04:21 — 113.8MB)
5-12-20 Tonight at 9PM ET, we’ll be talking with Aaron Schavey and Geoff Allen, owners of Boneflower Craft Mead in ‘the Region’ in northwest Indiana.
Aaron and Geoff have been making waves with their mead for a few years now, and formalized their mead making by opening Boneflower in 2018.
Geoff and Aaron are a couple of guys and a hobby that turned serious…sort of. After years of participating in the craft beverage scene, an introduction to Mead started them in an entirely new direction.
4-28-20 Matt Weide – Alternative Sugars, Bochets, and Techniques
4-28-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Matt Weide, a long time homebrewer and meadmaker. We'll be chatting on interesting things including alternative sugars in mead (like inverts, maple syrup and the like) and how they can be used in fermentation, bochet tips...
4-21-20 Kevin Meintsma – Making award winning mead
4-21-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Kevin Meintsma, a prolific and talented meadmaker who is quite humble about his very well made meads. Kevin has been making mead since 1995, his first one being with a very dark honey that he later learned was eastern...
4-14-20 Scott Schaar – Mead, Beer and Meadmaking
4-14-20 Tonight at 9PM ET we're talking with Scott Schaar, head brewer at Crawford Brew Works and former distiller at Mississippi River Distilling Company. He is a BJCP beer and mead judge. Scot was the 2017 AHA Meadmaker of the Year (MMOTY) and shared the 2019 MMOTY...
