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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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 lives too,...
11-24-15 – Guy McConnell – Laughing Leprechaun Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:13:30 — 91.9MB)
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
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:05:46 — 86.5MB)
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
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:14:56 — 92.8MB)
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
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:29:16 — 102.7MB)
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.
10-27-15 – Casey Stuck -Eagle’s Landing Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:27:52 — 101.7MB)
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.
10-20-15 – 810 Meadworks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:13:34 — 91.9MB)
On GotMead Live tonight, we have Bryan DeGraw, owner of 810 Meadworks in Medina, NY, a new meadery that opened in November 2014. Bryan is one of many new meaderies that have opened in the last year here in the US. Come join us, and get your questions about their meadery, and their journey to start up.
10-13-15 – Maine Meadworks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:10:28 — 89.8MB)
Tonight we talk with Ben Alexander of Maine Meadworks in Portland, Maine. In collaboration with South African scholar Dr. Garth Cambray, Maine Mead Works developed a state-of-the-art continuous fermentation system, which allows them to get an excellent mead to market very quickly.
10-7-15 – Mike Faul, Rabbits Foot Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:34:35 — 106.3MB)
Tonight’s guest is Mike Faul, owner of Rabbits Foot Meadery in Sunnyvale, CA. Mike has been making mead for a long time, and Rabbits Foot has been out there for nearly 20 years, making award winning mead.
9-20-15 – Talking Mead
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:07 — 64.8MB)
No guests tonight, just a bunch of meadmakers having a great time talking about mead and meadmaking. Vicky is out of town for vacation, so JD and AJ will be gathering a bunch of meadmakers and partying. The call lines are open, so come join the party!
