Episodes

7-5-16 Today we're talking with Mike Kiker, owner of Celestial Meads and Sassan Mossanen, general manger of Denali Brewing in Talkeetna, Alaska. This is a new thing, because Mike is selling Celestial Meads to Denali Brewing, and staying on as a mead-maester, to help them integrate the meads into their business, be an ambassador, and teach them how to make award-winning mead. There have been a lot of collaboration brews between meaderies and breweries, but so far as we know, this is the first tim...

6-28-16 GotMead Live is 1 Year Old! June 30 marks our one year anniversary, and we're tickled to have Ken Schramm back with us. Ken was kind enough to be the first guest on GML last year, and he's coming back to tell us what's going on with Schramm's Mead now, and also to help us talk about using fruit in your mead. You may not know, but Ken has a small and carefully curated orchard and berry farm on his property in Michigan. And he creates small batch reserve meads from these fruits, such as th...

6-21-16 We're still hanging out in the Great White North this week, and talking with Ed Nowek from Planet Bee! Planet Bee is a honey farm and meadery in British Columbia. They've picked up their share of medals from the Mazer Cup competition. AJ and I, and *special guest* Wayne Boncyk, from the GotMead Forums and the Mazer Cup will be talking about stabilization and backsweetening your meads. Got questions? Want to join the conversation, give us a call!! 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadw...

6-17-2016 - Today we're doing something different. I'm dealing with some things, and didn't have time to get a guest for this week, so we're all about just making mead. Today, our continuing series 'Making Mead: Back to Basics' is talking fruit. Fruit in your mead. What fruit, why fruit, and how fruit. AJ, Manny, Ryan and I will be spending the entire show (not sure how long it will be) talking about melomel and the fruit that loves it. If you want them to tackle your mead making stuff, you can ...

6-7-2016 We are off to the Great White North! This episode we will be talking with John Bryans, owner of Munro Honey and Mead in Ontario, Canada (finally A.J. gets the mead!!).

This week, we have Adam Crockett, owner of Haymaker Meadery in Montgomeryville, PA. Haymaker creates 'modern mead with a folk flair'. They are out there working to change the face of mead, and bring a 'new view' to the mead world. We're really interested to see what they're going to do!

5-24-16 - Yep, did it again. This time, I was out of town almost the entire break, a good bit of it in the mountains with crap connectivity, so I *do* have a weak excuse. (or at least a weak connectivity excuse) But never fear, we've lined up a great series for you, and will give you good show! This week, we have Bruce Leslie, president of the Texas Mead Association, which also hosts the Texas Meadfest (whaat? there's a meadfest in Texas? Whoohoooo!! Let's *go*!) The Texas Mead Association has b...

5-3-16 Yep, late again. I'm planning to fix that in the next series. This is the last GML until May 24, we are taking a 2 week break to set up the next series. Today we're talking with Todd, Jhett and Andrew with Leaky Roof Meadery in Buffalo, MO. Leaky Roof got started out of a failed meadery project that the guys were involved with, and the name comes from an association with a nearby railroad and the fact that many of the properties they looked at actually had leaky roofs, lol. They make a va...

Tonight we're chatting with Ken Schultz, owner of Hidden Legend Winery in Victor, MT. And on Making Mead-Back to Basics, we're talking BOMM and making good mead fast.

Tonight we talk with Jon Talkington of Brimming Horn Meadery, and dig into hydrometers and ABV/alcohol content, ingredient quality and care and feeding of yeast.

Viking Alchemist Meadery actually happened as sort of a surprise, when Robin’s son said ‘lets start a meadery’, and his wife did the research and found that the craft beverage industry was going nuts. On 'Making Good Mead - Back to Basics', we're talking creating good habits.

Jon Hamilton, owner of White Winter Winery in Duluth, WI, and our new show - "Making Great Mead - Back to Basics" with AJ, Manny and Ryan

Bray Denard created a recipe that produces a really good good mead in just 24 days, and his recipe has gone viral, and looks to surpass even Joe's Ancient Orange as the most popular mead recipe on the internet.

March 22, 2016 - In this episode we are doing something a little different. We've double trouble again, with both the AMMA and the Mazer Cup in attendance!

In this episode, we’re having ‘double the pleasure’, we have both Blair Housely, owner of Etowah Meadery, a ‘meadery in progress’, and we’re bringing back Frank Golbeck from Golden Coast Meadery, this time to go in-depth on what they’re doing with sour meads.

Well, it's a party on Gotmead Live tonight! Because, Mardi Gras (and Tysen needs his Untappd check-in for Mardi Gras).

In this episode we hang out with Nathan and Colin Ryan, brothers in mead at Fallentimber Meadery in Alberta, Canada.

This week our guest is Mike Tripka, president of the Domras Cup, held in Savannah, Georgia every year by the Savannah Brewers League.

This week we visit with the guys from Golden Coast Mead. Golden Coast started in 2012 in San Diego, CA and has been kicking butt ever since.

This week we will be talking with Julia Herz, long time meadmaker, and Craft Beer Program Director at the Brewers Association and Publisher of CraftBeer.com.

For our first show in 2016, we're tickled to have on the show Amina Harris, Director of the Honey and Pollination Center at the Mondavi Institute (the fermentation holy grail) at UC Davis in California.

Guy McConnell, owner of Laughing Leprechaun Meadery, started home brewing beer in 1990 and making mead in 1992 while living in Alabama.

Tonight, we’ll meet Chris Webber from Outlanders Keep in Washington state.