Tonight we'll be talking with newer meadmaker Stewart Jacobs. Stewart is in the Seattle area. We'll talk techniques, recipes and mead making in general.

Stewart is an aerospace engineer in the Seattle area who has been making mead in 5 gallon batches since 2016. He has made at least a dozen unique batches with a variety of different additives since starting. He currently has a smoked apple mead awaiting bottling and has two unique batches in storage which he made after the birth of each of his kids.

Stewart wants to dig into a bunch of things, like:

preparing your honeybest practices for caramelizing honeyFiguring out the appropriate amounts of fruits and herbs in a mead to have good balanceHow to make braggotAdding nutrients - best practices for timingYeast strain recommendations

We'll have a good time talking with Stewart and trading mead making info tonight!

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Upcoming Shows

July 30 - Matthew Chrispin and Kevin Meinstma - live mead judging with proctorsAug 13 - Kyle Ducharme - making mead, classes and mead competitionsAug 27 - Christy Hemenway - Run Amok MeaderySept 10 - Copa Hidromiel competition in Mexico with Vicky and Kevin

Show links and notes

Let There Be Melomels by Rob RatliffThe Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob RatliffLet There Be Session Meads by Rob Ratliff

Upcoming Events

May 1 - Sept 1 - Copa Hidromiel Mexico Competition RegistrationJune 15-Aug 4 (weekends) - Honnibrook Craft Meadery, Castle Rock, CO - Colorado Renaissance Festival this summer June 15th-August 4th. At the festival you can find our Black Currant, Huckleberry, Black Cherry, Elderberry, Blackberry and Dragonfruit meadsJuly 19 - Michigan Beer Cup, Kalamazoo, MI - MBC Mead Judging and Social EventJuly 19 - Three Hands Mead Company, Plant City, FL - Billy Ray Wheaton solo acoustic musicJuly 20 - Haley's Honey Meadery, Fredricksburg, VA - Mead and ReadJuly 20 - Hickory Tree Farm Apiaries, Kent City, MI - Mead Make and Take ClassJuly 20 - Apis Mead and Wine, Carnegie, PA - Springs and Arrows live musicJuly 20 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Blight of Many live musicJuly 24 - Oppegaard Meadery, Seattle, WA - Paint and Sip at the Meadhall!July 27 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary & Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making ClassJuly 27 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - HK live musicJuly 28 - Bløm Meadworks, Ann Arbor, MI - Body Boost workoutJuly 31 - B.Nektar, Ferndale, MI - Finer Things Mead and Food PairingAug 1 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Lynn Callahan live musicAug 2 - Wyrd Leather and Mead, Portland, OR - A Night of the Seven Kingdoms - House of the Dragon Cosplay and Finale Pre-Party NightAug 3 - White Bear Meadery, Maplewood, MN - Mead Day CelebrationAug 3 - Helderberg Meadworks, Esperance, NY - Mead Weekend 2024Aug 3 - White River Mead, Cider and Spirits, Iron River, WI - Mead Day - Legacy Mead TastingAug 3 - Honnibrook Craft Meadery, Castle Rock, CO - World Mead Day Celebration with live music all day and Polynesian Fire-Dancer show starting in the evening. For the celebration we will be serving 8 different varieties of mead slushees and 20 d...