Thanks for registering & supporting Gotmead.com! Please be sure to check both your email and your spam folder for the activation email that you will need to complete your registration. (If you're purchasing a patron account, you *did* register, right? You have to so we have an account to upgrade!!!!)

Once complete, you'll have access to hundreds of mead recipes, articles about mead, and thousands of mead posts in the forums.Thanks for deciding to support Gotmead and become a Patron! Running Gotmead takes a lot of money, and your contribution will go to help us run and expand the site.

Here's what you get if you decide to become a Patron!

• A Gotmead.com Email Account! 
• Exclusive content – nearly 13 years of articles and recipes from the old American Mead Association – Gotmead has obtained exclusive permission to re-publish articles, recipes and other nifty stuff from the authors of articles in the AMA newsletters
• The Premium Newsletter – Patrons receive an exclusive newsletter that will contain special recipes and articles, Patron-only discounts from our partners and other great Patron-only stuff
• The BrewBlog  – here you can create an online brewing log, where you can keep track of your batches, notes and comments. No comments are allowed by others unless you say so, but all can read of your recipes, and benefit from your experience.
• The Chat Room  – the chat room allows you to chat live with your fellow GM'ers while on the site.  It will be in a full chat room in the top menu, plus a shout box in the left column, no matter what page you're on, and is an exclusive benefit of paid members.
• Patron-Only Forum Boards – Belly Up – a discussion area, boards for equipment, recipes, techniques and fermentation management. The long-time mead makers who are patrons post their best recipes and advice here.
• The MeadCast – The GM Podcast. Starting with footage from the International Mead Festival and visits to Colorado meaderies, the MeadCast will, over time, be a monthly offering that includes pro meadery interviews, author talks, book reviews, tips, tricks and recipes for making mead, new places to purchase supplies, and anything else I can think of to help you make better mead, find better mead, and be a primo meadster.  (COMING SOON)
• Mead & Honey Reviews – We've many people who have a great deal of experience with wines and meads, and will be posting reviews of commercial meads and various honeys from around the world.
• Special articles and tools available only to subscribers – yet to be released. But as I devise more ways to provide mead info, and other things, they will be made available to subscribers
• …and other new tools, articles, recipes and exclusive Patron discounts

Is that worth $25.00 a year? Because that is all you will pay if you decide to upgrade your trial membership to a *full* Gotmead Patron Membership.

Where else will you get over 2500 pages of mead-making info, the largest mead forum on the internet, podcasts, and countless other nifty mead-making tools and toys?

 Your Patron Membership goes to support Gotmead and help us both grow the site, and make mead a household word.

A die-hard Gotmead visitor? Then consider getting a Premium Patron account, which comes with the following additional features:

• Increased email box size
• A Postini spam-catcher account (like Gmail uses) that you can route email through to catch 99% of spam

Use Paypal (pay with your credit card!) and renew automatically!:

To pay for your subscription with Paypal or Moneybookers, click here, and follow the instructions.

If you do not wish to use Paypal or Moneybookers, your options are:

1. Call me with a Visa, MC or American Express at 919-554-4625
2. Send mail payment (with forum ID) to:
   Vicky Rowe
   Gotmead.com
   131 Cedar Creek Lane
   Youngsville, NC 27596