The Mead Podcast - With the Brothers Drake Team

This week Tom & Will sit down with Kate & Dennis from Kinsale Meadery in beautiful County Cork to chat about mead, honey, and what it is like to start and run a meadery in Ireland. Thank you all for another great season of The Mead Podcast it's been amazing to sit down with talented mead makers & mead enthusiasts from across the globe. We are truly humbled to have each and every one of them on the podcast with us, sharing their stories and unbridled enthusiasm. It has been an inspiring and interesting season and we can't wait until next season where we dive into the exciting world of the golden elixir we call honey. Thank all of you for listening and again thank you so much to each and every one of our guests for sparing some time from their busy schedules to sit down and chat with us about mead.Website: www.www.kinsalemeadco.ieInstagram: @KinsalemeadcoAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey just on our Instagram and say hello! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The second last episode for the season is another across the globe chat with a meadery founder and all-around lovely person Chanelle who started Borage + Bee in 2018 making delicious hydromels from some of the world's most delicious southern hemisphere Borage honey.Tom & Will get in early and sit down with Chanelle and talk about what the world of mead looks like in New Zealand and what it is like to set up a new mead brand and communicate what this delicious elixir is to the new world. Thank all of you for listening and again thank you so much to each and every one of our guests for sparing some time from their busy schedules to sit down and chat with us about mead. Website: hwww.borageandbee.comInstagram: @BorageandbeeAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey just on our Instagram and say hello! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Tom & Will sat down with Sean Johnson from Erosion Meadery, in beautiful Perth, Western Australia. Early in the mead morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Tom, Will & Sean dive into discussions about using unique Eucalyptus honey & Kveik yeast and ponder over the landscape of honey and mead in Australia. From starting up a Meadery when no one knows what mead is, to how to change people's perceptions of what mead can be. This episode is a unique look at mead on the other side of the world and as always Website: https://www.erosionmead.com.au/Instagram: @ErosionMeadAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey just on our Instagram and say hello! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First off we would like to thank the team from Upper reach meadery for sparing the time to sit down with us as we had a few cancelations due to the nature of mead making. but after all that, this week Will sat down with the dynamic duo Adam & Brandalynn from Bucks County, PA. Chatting about honey, wild yeast, barrels, and recipe development. Will got carried away talking about sourcing honey as he does when he is left to his own devices so this week's episode is for those honey-focused mead makers out there!Website: https://upperreachmead.com Instagram: @UpperreachmeadAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey send us an [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week it's 100% Tom as Will had to put his dungarees on and helped out in the meadery. This week we are lucky to be joined by Julian, Oron, Sarah, and Kari from Brother Drake meadery who have been on the mead scene since 2006, and are full of passion, energy, and a wealth of knowledge.This episode is the true representation of meeting a mead family and why we love the mead world and our podcast, so sit back hear a few stories and see what it's like to live the mead life.We want to give a special thank you to all involved in this episode with time differences, and time pressures to spare an early morning hour is not to be underestimated.Website: https://www.brothersdrake.com/Instagram: @BrothersdrakeAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey send us an [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Tom & Will sit down with energy-filled Chad Wiltz from Florida's own Garagiste Meadery. We chat about sourwood honey, barrel ageing, carrot cake flavour profiles, cream cheese powder, and a laugh or two. As always we chat about choose honey and making traditionals, choosing yeast, and discuss how different mead makers approach their traditionals and why. We really enjoyed this week's chat with Chad even if there were a few technical issues, and we apologise for the stilted conversation as the delay sometimes means we talk over each other and the politeness of mead makers means we both prefer to listen. Thanks again to everyone involved and you all for listening. Website: https://www.garagistemeadery.com/Instagram: @GaragistemeaderyAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey send us an [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Tom & Will Chat about honey, apples, and dreams with Visionary, Founder & Artist of Fermentation of Moonlight Meadery Michael Fairbrother. Have you ever thought of buying an old farmstead and turning it into a home for all things fermentation and fun? I know everyone here as Gosnells has and so has Michael of Moonlight Meadery the only difference is he is actually doing it (lucky son of a gun) we sit down together chat mead, medals, apples, and some of the highs and lows of trying to make dreams come true. We would like to again thank everyone for their time, especially with the time differences, and hope you all enjoy this episode as much as we do recording them.Website: https://www.moonlightmeadery.com/Instagram: @MoonlightmeaderyAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey send us an [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Tom & Will chat with the dynamic duo Mike & Cayce from Meridian Hive in Sunny Austin, Texas about honey & hydromels. When we find a fellow hydromel producer it is hard to talk about anything else! From the struggles to the fun findings and equipment design, the hydromel world is full of surprises and honey-filled dreams. We would like to again thank everyone for their time, especially with the time differences, and hope you all enjoy this episode as much as we do recording them.Website: https://www.meridianhive.com/Instagram: @MeridianHiveAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey send us an [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode is the first of our season 4, meet a Mead Maker series. Tom & Will sit down with Billy from Lost Cause Meadery, San Diego to chat about experimentation, meadery structure, the future of mead-related beverages, and the mead community. We started this podcast as a way to create a little community between mead makers and mead enthusiasts alike, and its episodes like this that remind us that the mead world is full of fun, bright, and interesting people. We would like to again thank everyone for their time, especially with the time differences, and hope you all enjoy this episode as much as we do recording them. Website: https://www.lostcausemead.com/ Instagram: @lostcausemeaderyAnd remember if you ever want to chat about mead and/or honey send us an [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The mead podcast is back, we thank you all for your continued support, ideas, and encouragement over the past few years. And we have listened. This episode, and indeed the entire season is dedicated to meeting mead makers & mead enthusiasts. Nika is not only a genuine mead enthusiast but an amazingly positive voice in the mead world. We sat down to talk about her family business (The Mead) also how the food industry approaches mead with traditional and non-traditonal food pairing, cocktails, and much more. Thanks again to Nika for sparing some of her valuable time to sit down with us and give some insight into the current European mead world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.