June 17, 2025 - Tonight we’re talking with Adrian Beebe, owner of Cloud City Mead in Leadville, Colorado, and is the highest meadery in the country at over 10,000 feet. Adrian is making mainly session meads, and doing it well.
Adrian has been homebrewing beer & mead since 2009. Volunteering at various homebrew competitions and beer festivals, he became a certified beer judge in 2015 and got a job brewing at a brewpub in the small mining town of Leadville, Colorado where, in 2022, he opened the world's highest meadery, located dead center of CO at an elevation of over 10,000 feet. Cloud City employs modern methods for production, often borrowed from beer brewing, to create unique and distinctive flavors. Life is sweet at 10,000 feet.
Adrian is going to be getting into his use of kveik yeast in commercial mead, as well as sours, hopped meads and more!
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Upcoming Shows
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Show links and notes
Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff
The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff
Let There Be Session Meads by Rob Ratliff
Upcoming Events
June 18 - Kingview Mead, Mount Lebanon, VA - Trivia Night
June 21 - Crafted Artisan Meadery, Mogadore, OH - Mead and Meditation
June 21 - Grimsby Hollow Meadery, Middleville, MI - Drink Mead, Learn Things: Spirit Faerie Jar Workshop
June 21 - Dawg Gone Bees Meadery & Apiary, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class
June 21 - Ravenwood Meadery, Huntsville, AL - Meadery tour and tasting flight
June 21 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Blight of Many live music
June 26 - Adesanya Meadery, Grandville, MI - Disney Trivia Night
June 29 - Ironstone Meadery, Erie, PA - Mead and Draft Gaming night
July 2 - Kingview Meadery, Mt. Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night
July 6 - Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, DE - Mead, Music and Merchants
July 9 - Tree Trust, Centre Wellington, Ontario, CN - Mead and Meander forest walk
You can buy mead online at https://shopmeads.com