The Mead House

Tonight was braggot and chocolate night in The Mead House!

Michael Fairbrother from Moonlight Meadery joins in on discussions of braggots, cyser’s and ciders!

The boys talk about equipment investment, Mississippi Chris has a real good Blueberry Cyser recipe, and more on the braggot projects.

Free-for-all night here at The Mead House! Mississippi Chris, Jeff Shouse, Ryan Richardson and JD dig into the kitchen sink on topics such as ciders, beer, braggots and more! Enjoy the show!

Ryan Richardson joins the crew tonight as we talk cysers, braggots and gifting your brews. The picture is a label by Eric Bossick for a hibiscus mead he made.

Tonight’s episode includes discussion on Cysers, more on the braggot experiments, Ryan Richardson joins us next week!

Tonight we talked about cysers, and another discussion on our braggot project. Aaron was off tonight and we had a listenert call in, Ryan Richardson called in with some great ideas, and an offer to appear weekly on the show was handed to him! Enjoy!

Tonight we continue with the braggot discussions as we get closer to nailing down recipes, Patti Maki gives us a call,

We continue our discussion about braggots, JD may have found the mead he’s been looking to make. Jeff submits a recipe he’s working on, and while we take a couple weeks off, we will finalize our braggot ingredients. Be sure and contact us if you would like to share, or

More discussion on the braggot project, getting close to getting one started. Each of us is going to use an extract kit and add honey to come up with a good recipe.

We begin to explore beer on the show tonight in hopes of coming up with a Braggot mead recipe that incorporates the same ingredients in beer brewing. An avid listener, Brian Funk, gives us a call, had some questions on oaking and PH. Enjoy the show!

Welcome to The Mead House! Tonight we talk about oaking meads, types of oak, and a few alternatives. Also, clarifying your mead, natural, SuperKleer, or whatever works? Sanitizing, a good habit to get into is rotating your sanitizers, we’ll tell you why, and much more! Enjoy the show!

For those that missed the live show last week, we re-did the discussion on the coffee projects. We also talked about fruit, how to treat it for a melomel, and using spices. Jeff talked about evaluating a mead based on smell and taste. Enjoy!

I apologize for losing the opening twenty minutes. I had some technical errors and had to cut off the front end. However, here is whet we discussed after we opened. The coffee experiment wasn’t going in the direction JD had hoped for, so he dumped a couple projects in lieu

Special guest, Patty Maki, joins us tonight to talk about her Bochet, we discussed mead making standards and how they differ from recipes you find all over the internet. We have some advice and cautions when attempting to make the recipes you find.