Michael Fairbrother and Berniece Van Der Berg from Moonlight Meadery join me this week to discuss mead.
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[audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/beersmith/BSHB-197-Mead.mp3]Topics in This Week’s Episode (49:19)
- This week I welcome Michael Fairbrother and Berniece Van Der Berg from Moonlight Meadery. Michael is founder and head mead maker at Moonlight Meadery, and Berniece is co-founder and Vice President of Marketing.
- We open with a brief discussion of some of the new things going on at Moonlight Meadery.
- Michael talks a bit about National Mead Day which was August 3rd, including some of the activities surrounding this day.
- Berneice talks a bit about National Honeybee Day coming up on August 17th and we also discuss how important honey bees are.
- Michael tells us how he works very closely with honey suppliers and also how they have gone 100% organic with their suppliers
- Berniece shares a bit about the US beekeeper industry and how it is still dominated by smaller family beekeepers
- We discuss the state of craft mead making and how it has been rapidly expanding the last few years.
- We discuss some new innovations at Moonlight meadery and also how Michael’s mead making has evolved over his last 9 years in business.
- We discuss how the popular meads at Moonlight have evolved over time, as well as the offering of specialty meads.
- Michael and Berniece give their thoughts on where they think the mead industry is going next as well as closing thoughts on craft mead.
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Thanks to Michael Fairbrother and Berniece Van Der Berg for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
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