Episodes
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
9-5-23 Kent Slaymaker - Slaymaker Cellars, Idaho Springs, CO
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Kent and Cris opened Slaymaker Cellars in 2019, making a commitment to using local products for their meads as much as they can. They specialize in making dryer meads, and their wildflower traditional took a double gold at the 2022 Colorado Governor's Cup wine competition, and they are one o the top 12 wines in Colorado.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
8-15-23 Ben Chaney - Scale and Feather Meadery
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Scale & Feather is a small meadery run by three friends, Ben and Tamara Chaney are high school sweethearts who are going strong with 25 years together. Amber DeGiso is a graphic design specialist–creates cool labels and logos. They specialize in using local ingredients to produce their products.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
8-1-23 Honnibrook Meadery with Michael Fagan and DJ Kurtz
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Honnibrook Craft Meadery has been open for 4 and a half years now and the guys are really dialing in on serving session meads, refreshing meads below 8% ABV that are easy drinkers. The meadery is located just a little over a mile south of downtown Castle Rock Colorado in a man cave garage unit. They have over 85 approved mead recipes and offer 20 meads on tap along with mead slishees or mulled meads, depending on the season. They're currently up to 15 barrels a week in their production. They are up on Vinoshipper, so you can get their meads for your very own!
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
7-18-23 Brian Woerner - World Honey Exchange
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
We are back from our hiatus with a new episode of GotMead Live. Tonight we're talking with Brian Woerner, founder of the World Honey Exchange. World Honey Exchange curates specialty honeys from places such as Chile, Columbia, Ethiopia, Mexico and Tanzania. They have provided honeys for meaderies to make unique meads.Brian Woerner is the Founder of World Honey Exchange, a company focused on creating and furthering linkages between honey producers and end makers of many kinds. Brian began beekeeping in 2012 in Guinea, west Africa, as a Peace Corps volunteer. He subsequently worked for a small honey startup in Cambridge while doing graduate research at Boston University. While studying and working in the Northeast, Brian worked to further beekeeping relationships in various places, including Tanzania & Colombia, before starting WHE as a wholesale honey company. Operational since 2019, WHE has become known for specialty honeys and worked extensively in the specialty craft beverage with partners including Heidrun Meadery in California, Deschutes Brewing in Oregon, and Lamplighter and Aeronaut Brewing in Massachusetts.
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
11-29-22 Manny Elgarresta - Meadmaker - and the Great Keys Honey Giveaway
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
11-29-22 Tonight we're chatting it up with Manny Elgarresta, friend, mead maker, previous co-host on Gotmead Live and denizen of Miami. Manny has been making mead for quite a while, and has even converted his garage to making mead, enhancing it so he could make mead and beer in the Miami heat.Special for tonight, our last show of 2022, Manny has obtained 10 *gallons* of rare Florida Keys mangrove honey, and another 5 gallons of Keys wildflower honey. 180 pounds of rare, organic, unprocessed honey. And here at GotMead Live, Manny is offering these honeys to 10 special folks, to make a really special mead. We will be choosing talented mead makers from our faithful listeners to get a gallon of honey, and make a special mead from it.
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
11-15-22 Lucas Goucher and Carson Souza - Obscurity Brewing and Mead - Elburn IL
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tonight we're headed to Illinois to talk with Luke Goucher and Carson Souza, proprietor and head brewer/meadmaker at Obscurity Mead. Obscurity Brewing was founded 6 years ago, and has been open for the last 2.5 years, with Obscurity Mead Hall being open for about 1.5 years.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
11-1-2022 - Chad Wiltz - Garagiste Meadery - Tampa FL
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tonight we're talking with Chad Wiltz, owner and meadmaker at Garagiste Meadery in Tampa, Florida. Chad has been making mead since 2014, and opened Garagiste in late in 2017, after winning the Home Meadmaker of the Year in early 2017.Chad had a life-altering event (though he didn't realize it at the time) in 2014, when he visited a small meadery in Michigan and tried their meads. And that started a quest for him. He wanted to have more mead that was THAT good. Join us to see what he's up to and get some low down on how he does mead at Garagiste.