Episode 176

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Episode 176
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Home meadmaker Greg McNulty stops by the house to share some insight. Getting started 3 years ago with a pin cherry mead, as he put it, “the rest is history.” “I am now in the R&D phase of starting a small Meadery in Buffalo, Ny, focusing on crushable sessions. Along the way, I found your show, and decided to give the famous Ryan Braggot a try since now I have the proper equipment!” Thanks Greg for listening Greg! Also in this episode, we follow up on a question posed by a Facebook fan regarding making Vikings Blod mead, and we discuss the on-going debate about pasteurizing honey before using it in your mead. We wrap with w few Facebook friends and call it a night! Thanks for listening!

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Episode 175

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Episode 175
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We’re back after an extended hiatus, and in this episode we find out that over the break, Ryan scores at the Mazer Cup! Jeff re-visits Graf with a new recipe he found at Brulosophy. JD talks about way back when Mississippi Chris was on the show how they both started a Graf using a recipe found at HomeBrewTalk.com. In segment 2, we hook up with Will Otte, a homebrewer with a bit of useful science behind using bentonite as a clearing agent.  Get your pen & paper out guys, you’ll want to take notes on this one! We wrap the show with Will and a few Facebook friends.

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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.

 

Products mentioned in this episode;

Amoretti

Episode 174

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In this episode, make sure you have a pencil & paper with you, you’ll want to take notes! Home meadmaker Tom Repas is back in the house to share some insight on making a mead to go with your meals. Rather than trying to pick a mead off the shelf, why not make a mead yourself. Check out his Facebook page for some inspiration, he’s quite a cook, gardener and beekeeper! The we wrap the show with  our Facebook/Reddit friends!

 

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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.

 

Products mentioned in this episode;

Amoretti

Episode 173

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Evan Henderson is in the house this episode. Beginning a career as a civil engineer, he spent 10 years behind a computer monitor before he decided he needed to move on. He was hired on at Sap House Meadery and quickly mastered the mead making production there, evident by the best meads you ever tasted!

 

 

Also in this episode, home mead maker and author of The Lost Art, A Comprehensive Guide for Beginner Mead Brewers, Michael Labonte takes a seat at the bar. He messaged the House on Facebook and told us about a coffee mead that turned out awesome and a Maple, Bourbon Vanilla mead that sounds awful tasty!

 

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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.

 

Products mentioned in this episode;

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Episode 172

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Adam Thoms, our second place medalist in the Iron Bee 2020 secret ingredient category, is a home mead maker who started off home brewing beer a few years ago and really found my ideal hobby/addiction after pitching the yeast on my first batch of mead in January 2019. What he did with Rose Hips and Cacao Nibs was amazing for his very first competition entry ever! He lives by the idea that there are many ways to make mead, and he’s not afraid to fail forward and experiment! 3 We move into a category seldom dicussed here in the house, and we promise, we will be exploring this further for sure, Pyments, mead made with grape juice and honey. As usual, we wrap the show with a few Facebook/Reddit friends.

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Does anybody know where you can listen to the Mead House podcast? How about on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and soon, Amazon Music? Check the front page of the website for more locations and be sure to subscribe and rate us 5 stars!

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.

Episode 171

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There was a time when gluten-free beers tasted like, well, the leftovers at the bottom of a slop bucket used to feed hogs with. Well, maybe not that bad, but they were sort of disgusting. Then along came Grouse Malt House, that changed everything. Gluten-free malts with the same awesome flavors of regular grain malt from brown sugars and caramels to coffee and cocoa, now those with intolerance have a valuable source to produce gluten-free beers & braggots. Twila Soles, founder of Grouse Malt House joins us this episode. Facebook/Reddit Friends wrap the show with questions like using dehydrated berries in a mead and figuring out aging time.

Get Gluten-free brewing products here at Gluten Free Homebrewing.

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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.

Episode 170

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Episode 170
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We’re back! With this episode, we toss the mic around the table and talk about what we did or didn’t accomplish during our 2 week hiatus. Jeff has some 411 on another method of carbing up mead, and we wrap the show with a laundry list of questions from our Facebook/Reddit friends!

 

 

 

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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.

Products mentioned in this episode: 

Amoretti

Dutch Gold

Episode 169

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Episode 169
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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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Episode 168

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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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Sponsors of the 2020 Iron Bee;

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Laney Honey

Episode 167

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Episode 167
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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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