Episode 285 – Recipe Development Process

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Episode 285 - Recipe Development Process
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Chris and Jeff take some time to walk through their own process for planning and developing a recipe including ingredients, thought process and planning – and of course a few anecdotes and tangents along the way.

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Episode 284 – Tinctures & Having Fun Serving Mead

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Episode 284 - Tinctures & Having Fun Serving Mead
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Chris and Jeff take a deeper dive into the world of tinctures, what they are, how to make them, why to use them, and different approaches above and beyond a base spirit and an herb or spice. Then, inspiration strikes Jeff in the oddest times and he walks away with the idea of making… mead boba pearls? Jeff and Chris throw around some further ideas to make the presentation side of serving more fun and enjoyable.

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Episode 283 – Making Mead versus Beer & Wine, Estimating Starting Amounts for Adjuncts

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Episode 283 - Making Mead versus Beer & Wine, Estimating Starting Amounts for Adjuncts
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It’s a content packed episode this week on The Mead House, Jeff and Chris reflect on some of the differences between the process of making a mead versus making a beer or a wine. Chris tries a taste of Jeff’s partigyle bonus braggot. The guys switch gears to talk general rules about estimating how much fruit, spice, etc. to add to a new batch. Stories about their first batches and a few entertaining tangents get shared along the way.

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Episode 282 – Bochets and Stalled Batches

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Episode 282 - Bochets and Stalled Batches
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Jeff and Chris walk through a few different methods for caramelizing honey and making bochet style meads, along with a little discussion of their successes and failures along the way. Then, Jeff gives a series of tips for diagnosing and dealing with a stalled ferment.

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Episode 281 – Labeling Mead and Hopped Meads

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Episode 281 - Labeling Mead and Hopped Meads
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It’s a listener request episode! First the guys discuss various options for labeling mead for home mead makers, from elaborate to extremely simple. Then, they discuss adding hops, from why, to how, and what kinds of flavors and types of hops lend themselves best to a good mead.

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Episode 280 – Competition Prep

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Episode 280 - Competition Prep
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It’s another longer topic this week as the guys dig into getting ready to get meads to competition. They talk finishing your meads with an eye for entering, packaging your mead, options for shipping and the ins and outs of getting it entered!

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Episode 279 – Mead Making Faults

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Episode 279 - Mead Making Faults
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The guys take a deep dive into the various faults one can encounter while making mead, and talk steps to mitigate and deal with them as they spring up.

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Episode 278 – Getting Started Beekeeping (or not), Jeff’s Lemon Mead, Sour Meads

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Episode 278 - Getting Started Beekeeping (or not), Jeff's Lemon Mead, Sour Meads
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It’s a three-topic Thursday at the Mead House. In the first topic, Jeff discusses his experience beekeeping and things a home mead maker should think about before getting into the hobby themselves. Then, the guys discuss PUT SOME SEEDS IN YOUR POCKET, Jeff’s lemon mead recipe that he finished based on the Mead House 8% mead recipe. Finally, the guys discuss options for making a sour mead for the hot summer months.

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Episode 277 – Roane’s Experiment and Growing Berries in Containers

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Episode 277 - Roane's Experiment and Growing Berries in Containers
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Chris’ son Roane has undertaken an experiment making the cheapest mead possible, comparing mead made with wine yeast and mead made with bread yeast. Chris and Jeff try an experiment to see if they can tell one from the other, with surprising results. Then, Chris drops some knowledge on growing berries in containers, a topic near and dear to his heart.

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Episode 276 – Making Meads Fast, Using Kviek and Jeff’s Modern Orange

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Episode 276 - Making Meads Fast, Using Kviek and Jeff's Modern Orange
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With the calendar turning over to June and the temperatures climbing, we’re definitely in the summer months. Usually that means making mead gets tricky but Jeff throws out some ways to make your summer meads fast and tasty using kviek yeast strains, and uses one to make a juicy orange mead that’s sure to be a favorite summer sipper – Jeff’s Modern Orange!

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