A free for all! This episode, we go all over the map just talking mead, plus Mead Day is coming in a couple days, how are you spending yours? We’ll give you an idea of how we’re spending ours. Then, we do an extended Facebook Friends. Just a reminder, this is show 6 on our 6 & 2 calendar, so we’ll see you in two weeks when we come back for episode 170!
EDIT: Sap House Meadery mead club is $75 per quarter, not per month. We apologize for the confusion.
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Iron Bee 2020 results are in! Check them out right here! Congratulations to all our winners!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
This is another nugget show. There is much to say about Nathan Steigman, however, it would take several pages to explain it all. Nathan lives in the heart of mead country, Minnesota. He’s a tinkerer, an experimenter, and a qualified master home mead maker. His meads, some with very unusual ingredients, are much sought after around his hometown and beyond, and if you’ve been lucky enough to have one, you would remember it for a long time. Not afraid to push the limits, he’s featured in this episode because he won the 2020 Iron Bee secret ingredient category, Rose hips. He’ll tell you all about it in the show. Get your pen and paper out also, he’ll drop plenty of nuggets along the way. Congratulations Nathan, and thanks for hanging out for the entire show!
Valkries Horn is on! Get in fast, there is limited space so hurry!
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Iron Bee 2020 results are in! Check them out right here! Congratulations to all our winners!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Like many recent grads, Martin Key and Justin Schoendorf found themselves relatively poor and possessing an insatiable appetite for craft beer. As Martin and Justin learned to make new and interesting beers, they tinkered with various styles and recipes creating things that were not yet available in the market. Eventually, they stumbled upon an alcoholic drink made with fermented honey. Both Justin and Martin have been avid home brewers since the turn of the century. Justin has been in the alcohol business for more than 17 years, so he provides a lot of industry knowledge and experience. They developed a recipe suited to their tastes, their friends seemed to like it, so they decided to start a meadery and share their recipe with the world. And that is how Monk’s Meadery began! Justin joins us in this episode.
Bourbon barrel ice cream
4 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
1 cup barrel aged beer
1 cup heavy cream
Whisk the egg yolks, and heat the beer & cream to a simmer, while whisking, temper the egg yolks with the cream and combine, and bring to a simmer again. Strain, chill, and put into an ice cream mixer.
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Iron Bee 2020 results are in! Check them out right here! Congratulations to all our winners!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
With an avid interest in archaeological and historical research he has been making mead using traditional pre-modern techniques, wild yeast and local, often foraged ingredients since 2000. With a license in 2010 he founded the first commercial meadery in New York State, and opened the first meadery in New York City. These meads have been embraced by the natural wine community and are served at some of the finest restaurants and bars in NYC. This episode we talk with Raphael Lyon of Enlightenment Wines Meadery. And by the way, he was gracious enough to hold open one day longer, a chance at subscribing to their quarterly wine club. So get in now!
Iron Bee 2020 results are in! Congratulations to all the winners! You can see the results here.
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Aloha! In this episode, Stephanie Krieger from Nani Moon Meadery in Hawaii stops by the house to talk about the only meadery in the Hawaiian Islands, and a few of her amazing meads like Buzz Squared, crafted from Kona Coffee and organic local honey. With access to Hawaiian vanilla straight from the Orchid which grows wild there and some of the most unique and sought after honey’s in the world like Macadamia Nut and Ohia Lehua blossom honey, she has an amazing list of meads. They also have about 4 spots left for their super secret mead club, here’s how to get in, email them at nanimoonmeadinfo@gmail.com
We spend both segment 2 & 3 on Facebook Friends, make sure and email us your questions to info@themeadhouse.com
Iron Bee 2020 is wrapping up the judging, so stay tuned, results are imminent!
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
There is only one man who can claim the title, Chairman of Mead. David Myers of Redstone Meadery is that man. His flagship Black Raspberry Nectar put Redstone Meadery on the map, and pretty much set the standard. He joins us this episode for some fun and entertaining thoughts on mead making. Redstone Meadery is also one of many proud sponsors of the 2020 Iron Bee Competition. Also, the crew reminds it’s listeners of the New Years Resolutions & Revelations they made 6 months ago on episode 145, find out if they’ve had any luck achieving them. And finally, we wrap with a couple Facebook Friends to call it a night.
Iron Bee 2020 is on! It’s time to register, and you must be a Mead House Keyholder to enter. It’s gonna be a shindig, so don’t miss it! After party dates will be announced later.
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
All the way from the UK in 2011 to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota where he makes his home, he started out as an accountant, when he got here, he became a beekeeper! In this episode we talk with Jonathan Gardner of Gardner Bees, about melter honey, something new to the meadmaking world. If you’re looking for honey that has a head start on caramelizing for a bochet or a dark grain braggot, maybe this is your honey! In segment two, Ryan trys out a new yeast, JD is about to start a summertime brew, and a listener has a question about Graff! As usual, we wrap the show with some Facebook Friends and some tricky questions!
Iron Bee 2020 is on! It’s time to register, and you must be a Mead House Keyholder to enter. It’s gonna be a shindig, so don’t miss it! After party dates will be announced later.
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Another Facebook Friends episode! From continuous fermentation, bourbon bochet and elderflower mead to adding a smokey flavor, using centennial hops and no, really? Coffee meads again?! It’s all here in this episode!
Iron Bee 2020 is on! It’s time to register, and you must be a Mead House Keyholder to enter. It’s gonna be a shindig, so don’t miss it! After party dates will be announced later.
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
Twice American Homebrewers Association Meadmaker of The Year, Steve Fletty returns to update us on what he’s been brewing lately. Last here on episode 67, Steve has been trying to perfect a dry traditional mead with some brewing techniques he hopes will prove hopeful. In segment two, we turn our broadcast spotlight to one of our own, Jeff Shouse, and his early days as a student in Slovenia. You’ll get a kick out of this one! And finally, Facebook Friends, this is where we try to answer questions with no formal expertise other than what we’ve experienced in our own brew rooms!
Iron Bee 2020 is on! It’s time to register, and you must be a Mead House Keyholder to enter. It’s gonna be a shindig, so don’t miss it! After party dates will be announced later.
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
John Jacob started Old Sol Enterprises LLC in 1997 with the goals of creating and sharing sustainable farming practices with an emphasis on beekeeping and pollinators. John’s educational background includes a BS in biology with minors in Economics and Chemistry from Southern Oregon University. Old Sol has pioneered a bee breeding program to develop disease tolerant bees and innovative farming practices such as agrivoltaics for pollinator habitat and commercial beekeeping. Stuck at home with 5 gallon batches and unable to share? How about doing small batch projects and storing them in large Pepsi or Coke bottles? And with the right attachment, you can even carb up your small batch right in the bottle. Then as always, we end the show with Facebook/Reddit friends.
Iron Bee 2020 is on! It’s time to register, and you must be a Mead House Keyholder to enter. It’s gonna be a shindig, so don’t miss it! After party dates will be announced later.
Thanks for keeping the Mead House podcast free with your continued support, we appreciate all our listeners. Get a set of keys to the mead house, help keep the Mead House podcast free by subscribing to Patreon, when you do, Jeff will send you some great gifts! When you become a subscriber, you’ll have access to some great interviews from guests here at the Mead House.
A free for all! This episode, we go all over the map just talking mead, plus Mead Day is coming in a couple days, how are you spending yours? We’ll give you an idea of how we’re spending ours. Then, we do an extended Facebook Friends. Just a reminder, this is show 6 on our 6 & 2 calendar, so we’ll see you in two weeks when we come back for episode 170!
Iron Bee 2020 results are in! Check them out right here! Congratulations to all our winners!
This is another nugget show. There is much to say about Nathan Steigman, however, it would take several pages to explain it all. Nathan lives in the heart of mead country, Minnesota. He’s a tinkerer, an experimenter, and a qualified master home mead maker. His meads, some with very unusual ingredients, are much sought after around his hometown and beyond, and if you’ve been lucky enough to have one, you would remember it for a long time. Not afraid to push the limits, he’s featured in this episode because he won the 2020 Iron Bee secret ingredient category, Rose hips. He’ll tell you all about it in the show. Get your pen and paper out also, he’ll drop plenty of nuggets along the way. Congratulations Nathan, and thanks for hanging out for the entire show!
Like many recent grads, Martin Key and Justin Schoendorf found themselves relatively poor and possessing an insatiable appetite for craft beer. As Martin and Justin learned to make new and interesting beers, they tinkered with various styles and recipes creating things that were not yet available in the market. Eventually, they stumbled upon an alcoholic drink made with fermented honey. Both Justin and Martin have been avid home brewers since the turn of the century. Justin has been in the alcohol business for more than 17 years, so he provides a lot of industry knowledge and experience. They developed a recipe suited to their tastes, their friends seemed to like it, so they decided to start a meadery and share their recipe with the world. And that is how 
With an avid interest in archaeological and historical research he has been making mead using traditional pre-modern techniques, wild yeast and local, often foraged ingredients since 2000. With a license in 2010 he founded the first commercial meadery in New York State, and opened the first meadery in New York City. These meads have been embraced by the natural wine community and are served at some of the finest restaurants and bars in NYC. This episode we talk with Raphael Lyon of 
Aloha! In this episode, Stephanie Krieger from 
There is only one man who can claim the title, Chairman of Mead. David Myers of 
All the way from the UK in 2011 to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota where he makes his home, he started out as an accountant, when he got here, he became a beekeeper! In this episode we talk with Jonathan Gardner of 
Twice American Homebrewers Association Meadmaker of The Year, Steve Fletty returns to update us on what he’s been brewing lately. Last here on episode 67, Steve has been trying to perfect a dry traditional mead with some brewing techniques he hopes will prove hopeful. In segment two, we turn our broadcast spotlight to one of our own, Jeff Shouse, and his early days as a student in Slovenia. You’ll get a kick out of this one! And finally, Facebook Friends, this is where we try to answer questions with no formal expertise other than what we’ve experienced in our own brew rooms!
John Jacob started