Gordon Strong joins me this week to discuss the new BJCP Mead Style Guideline revisions as well as some of his favorite mead styles.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (51:52)
- This week I welcome back Gordon Strong. Gordon is President Emeritus and highest level beer judge in the Beer Judge Certifcation Program and author of the books Modern Homebrew Recipes and Brewing Better Beer (Books links are paid Amazon affiliate links).
- We start with a discussion of the BJCP Cider guidelines updated last year as well as a few of Gordons recent projects.
- Next we dive into the updated BJCP Mead style guideline that Gordon is currently working on and planning to publish shortly. He explains his goals for the new update.
- The guide is divided into four major sections starting with traditional meads. We talk about the traditional mead categories as well as varietal meads and some of Gordons favorite varietals.
- Gordon next discusses changes to the fruit mead (Melomel) category and we discuss the expansion of Cyser to include other pomme fruits.
- We discuss the fruit mead categories, along with Ken Schramm’s noble fruits though Gordon explains why many tropical fruits also work well with mead.
- We talk about spiced meads which covers a wide variety of spices. Gordon tells us why many “winter” spices work well with mead.
- Finally we have the specialty mead category which covers meads that don’t otherwise fit in the main categories. Gordon also discusses wood and barrel aged meads which have become popular.
- Gordon provides his closing thoughts.
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