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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9-15-15- Rambling with the Meadmkers
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:07 — 64.8MB)
Allan and Tysen are on the show again tonight, and with Vicky away, there’s a party going on! JD and AJ are exploring mead and mead making in an acapella episode, just rapping and sharing good mead.
9-9-15 – Ben & Becky Starr – Starrlight Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:07:18 — 87.6MB)
Tonight’s guests are Ben and Becky Starr, owners of Starrlight Meadery in Pittsboro, NC. Ben and Becky turned a win for Best in Show at the International Mead Festival in 2006 with their Cyser into their full-time job, and just this past weekend celebrated their 5th year serving tasty beverages to mead lovers from all over. And that cyser that won Best in Show? One of their flagship meads. We’ll be talking all things mead.
9-1-15 – Allen & Tysen – the Meadmkers
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:05:25 — 86.3MB)
This episode we will break from our usual approach, because GotMead Live is having a party!! Allen and Tysen, the Meadmkrs, will will with us, and we’ll be drinking mead and talking mead, and who knows what will happen, or who will call in?
8-25-15 – Susan Ruud – Prairie Rose Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:10:18 — 89.7MB)
Tonight on Gotmead Live we are chatting with Susan Ruud, owner of Prairie Rose Meadery in Fargo, ND. Susan has been in the homebrewing and meadmaking scene for a long time, and was involved with the AHA and GABF for years.
8-18-15 – Moonlight Meadery – Michael Fairbrother
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:14:03 — 92.0MB)
Tonight on Gotmead Live we are hanging out with Michael Fairbrother, owner of Moonlight Meadery in Londonderry, NH. Michael broke out in the meadery world as a commercial meadery just a few years ago, and his growth has been nothing short of amazing.
8-11-15- David Myers – Redstone Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:13:40 — 92.0MB)
Tonight on GotMead Live we have David Myers, owner of Redstone Meadery in Boulder, CO. David is known as the ‘Chairman of the Mead’ and has been seen all over the United States, pouring his mead for appreciative mead lovers.
8-4-15 – Joe Mattioli – Creator of Joe’s Ancient Orange Mead
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:07:10 — 87.5MB)
Tonight on Gotmead Live we are talking with Joe Mattioli, the creator of the most-shared mead recipe on the web, Joe’s Ancient Orange Mead. Joe will be telling us more about how he came up with the recipe, and why it works so well if you follow it to the letter.
7-28-15 – Pamela Spence – Mad About Mead
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:15:51 — 93.5MB)
We’ll be talking with Pamela Spence, author of “Mad About Mead” and founder of the very first organization of meadmakers, the American Meadmakers Association back in 1986. She’s hanging out in Ohio now, having a blast as a grandma, and she’s going to come on and tell us about how things were back in the first days of the breakout of mead into the public arena. [break]Join us and call in to ask him your questions!
7-14-15 – Sergio Moutela – Melovino Meadery
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:19:36 — 95.9MB)
We’ll be talking with Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery, in Vauxhall, NJ. Melovino is the first meadery in New Jersey, and Sergio has gone from opening to rapid growth in no time flat. He’s got some great meads, and some really good ideas on running a meadery (and we might pry some recipe ideas out of him!).
7-7-15 – B. Nektar – Brad & Kerri Dalhofer
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:59:47 — 109.7MB)
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, and how they started their business, and where they get their ideas for some the unique meads they’ve created over the years. Join us and call in to ask them your questions!
