This week Alex Mendoza from Hiveworks meadery joins me to discuss styles of mead, making mead and his personal story about opening a meadery.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (44:02)
- This week I welcome Alex Mendoza, co-founder and CEO of Hiveworks Meadery. Alex shares his story of making mead, starting a meadery, various styles of mead and how you can make mead at home.
- We start with a short discussion of how Alex got started making mead at home, and how that evolved into starting his own meadery.
- Alex explains the cultural history of mead and how mead is arguably the oldest beverage in human history. We also talk about how mead moved from a mainstream beverage into more of a niche product.
- Alex tells us why he thinks mead has so much potential and why it is growing so rapidly.
- We dive into mead making and Alex provides an overview of how you can make mead at home.
- Alex explains why he decided to make “session meads” and how he balances out a relatively low, dry finishing gravity to create a drinkable beverage.
- We talk about the three main offerings he is producing at the moment: Skyborne, Crimson Queen and his hopped mead.
- Alex tells us how you can get to Hiveworks meadery as well as where you can find canned versions of his mead.
- He shares his closing thoughts.
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