Tag Archives: mead

Ancient Brews with Dr Patrick McGovern – BeerSmith Podcast #153

Dr Patrick McGovern, Director of Biomolecular Archeology at the University of Pennsylvania Museum joins me this week to discuss research into ancient fermented beverages.

You can find show notes and additional episodes on my blog here.

Mead Making with Steve Piatz – BeerSmith Podcast #150

Steve Piatz, the author of “The Complete Guide to Making Mead” and 2008 mead maker of the year joins me this week to discuss making the perfect mead, melomel, pyment or cyser.

You can find show notes and additional episodes on the BeerSmith blog here.

Mead Making and Melomels with Ken Schramm – BeerSmith Podcast #143

This week Ken Schramm from Schramm’s Meadery joins me to discuss big sweet fruity meads and melomels.  Ken is a founder of the Mazer Cup, author of the book The Compleat Meadmaker, nationally award winning mead maker, and founder of Schramm’s Meadery near Detroit.

You can find show notes and additional episodes on the blog here.

Making Braggot – Mead and Barley with Michael Fairbrother – BeerSmith Podcast #138

Michael Fairbrother, the founder of Moonlight Meadery joins me this week to discuss how to make Braggot which is a combination of beer and mead made from both honey and barley grain.

You can find show notes and additional episodes on the BeerSmith blog here.

Embrace Homebrewing with Michael Tonsmeire – BeerSmith Podcast #124

Michael Tonsmeire, the Mad Fermentationist, joins me this week to talk about embracing homebrewing and shares many of the advantages that home brewers enjoy versus professional beer brewers.

You can find additional episodes and the show notes here.

Melomel – Meads and Fruit with Michael Fairbrother – BeerSmith Podcast #119

Michael Fairbrother, award winning mead maker and CEO of Moonlight Meadery joins me this week to discuss making fruit meads and melomels.  Michael uses fruit in many of his top selling meads and has a unique perspective on what fruits to use and how to get the best mead from fruit and honey!

You can find the full episode with show notes here.

Speed Brewing with Mary Izett – BeerSmith Podcast #111

Mary Izett, author of the new book “Speed Brewing” joins me this week to discuss rapid brewing of all grain beer as well as mead, cider, Buch and Kefir.  She provides some great tips on how to create a variety of fermented beverages on a short time scale.

You can find the full episode with show notes here.

Mead Making with Michael Fairbrother – BeerSmith Podcast #88

Michael Fairbrother from Moonlight Meadery joins me to discuss how you can make mead with the same equipment you are using now to brew beer.  Michael walks us through the entire mead making process and provides some great tips along the way!

You can find the complete episode with show notes here.

Making Mead with Michael Fairbrother – BeerSmith Podcast #65

Making Mead is this week’s topic with Michael Fairbrother from Moonlight Meadery as my guest. He shares his thoughts on mead as both a professional and award winning mead maker.

The full video and show notes for this episode can be found here.

Moonlight Meadery with Michael Fairbrother – BeerSmith Podcast #43

This week my guest is Michael Fairbrother from Moonlight Meadery. Michael is a national an international award winning mead maker who made the transition from making mead at home to professional only two years ago. Michael is going to share his tips on making great mead at home.

NOTE: The full video and show notes for this episode are found here.

Making Mead with Curt Stock – BeerSmith Podcast #20

This week Curt Stock is my guest and we talk about mead making.  The leap from making beer to making mead is not a large one, and most brewers have the equipment they need already on hand. Curt was the 2005 AHA mead maker of the year and serving in his second term on the AHA governing committee. He’s a member of the Saint Paul Homebrewer’s club.

NOTE: The full episode with show notes can be found here.