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Welcome back to "A Guide to Starting Your Own Meadery" with Billy Beltz! Billy is one of the co-owners of Lost Cause Meadery in San Diego. Lost Cause is a world famous, award winning meadery that has been in operation for a little over 6 years. Billy has been one of the spearheads of the operations and he has so graciously taken the time to share his knowledge on how to start a meadery. In this multi-part series you will ...

Welcome back to "A Guide to Starting Your Own Meadery" with Billy Beltz! Billy is one of the co-owners of Lost Cause Meadery in San Diego. Lost Cause is a world famous, award winning meadery that has been in operation for a little over 6 years. Billy has been one of the spearheads of the operations and he has so graciously taken the time to share his knowledge on how to start a meadery. In this multi-part series you will ...

Today I'm back chatting with Texas Longhouse Mead (Carlos)! We're in our second of three podcasts we are planning on doing. The first podcast we recorded was all about the beginnings of his meadery he's starting. This one is all about some of the new things he's running into and all about the building and planning side of the meadery. We are planning on doing a final podcast at location once he's up in runn...

Today I'm chatting with the incredible Ken Schramm all about his meadowy, his life and his experiences brewing. I've been looking forward to sitting down and chatting with Ken for a few years now and finally had the chance. We had a great time chatting about Ken's history in brewing, the start of Schramm's mead, behind the scenes of his awesome meads and more. I hope you enjoy the episode. Be sure to check out S...

Today I'm chatting with Matthew from Mean Brews all about his experience brewing mead, beer and more! He's a fantastic brewer and has a passion for continuing to help grow the craft with his YouTube channel (link below) and the Master Homebrewer Program. I hope you enjoy this episode!

Wild Yeast Isolation: https://www.milkthefunk.com/wiki/Wild_Yeast_Isolation

Shagbark hickory syrup (I don't use suga...

Today I'm chatting with Michael Kaiser, who is one of the leaders of the biggest mead group in the world! I'm talking about the "Mead" Facebook group. He is an excellent mead maker and extremely helpful to the audience of over 100k people on there. He's also made mead for a long time and we get to sit down and pick his brain about mead in general. I hope you enjoy this episode! Join the "Mead" Fac...

Today I'm chatting with Alyson and James from Schramm's mead all about the family meadery that is Schramm's! We got to chat all about how they make their mead, some behind the scenes of what it's like to work there and even more! You can find more information about them with the links below. 

Schramm's Website: https://store.schrammsmead.com/storefront.aspx
The Compleat Meadmaker: https://store...

Today I'm chatting with Larry Reaux, who is the creator of Meadtools! Mead tools is an online source you can use to plan your next mead. You can find all of the links below to use the calculator yourself. It's a great resource and you should definitely plan on using it!

Online Website: https://meadtools.com

Google Spreadsheet Version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iu-9b-_JpiedK6rwSt_--7cOT5ah6R...

Today I'm chatting with the winner of the Ultimate Mead Maker of 2023, Matthew Allen! The Ultimate Mead Maker Challenge is a very unique competition in that it goes beyond just one bottle of mead. I put 16 mead makers through 4 challenges to see who was the best mead maker. After each challenge we eliminated 4 of them until we were down to just 1 left. I documented the whole series on YouTube and you can find those links below...

Today I get to chat with the wonderful guys over at Basic Brewing all about their channel and their experiences in brewing! These gentlemen are far more educated than me and yet they let me share some meads with them! I hope you enjoy this fun episode with James and Steve. Check out Basic Brewing!

Basic Brewing YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCM1T4qgHA5qv2uF8y7wC_CQ 
Basic Brewing Website: https://www.basicb...

Today I get to sit and chat with the amazing Carlos from Texas Longhouse Mead and chat about his upcoming meadery! He has broken ground on land and is in then process of finalizing licenses and everything to get going. This episode is really fun and I hope you enjoy learning more about what it takes to make a meadery. Support Carlos' channel below!

Texas Longhouse Mead: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnGsv4bfDKg_LjB...

Today I'm chatting with Jesse from the YouTube channel Still It! His channel is one of the go to places on YouTube to consume great content and learn a lot about distilling. He was so gracious to spend a few minutes of his time telling me all about distilling and talking about his experiences in distilling mead. I really hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to check out his channel if you haven't done yet!

Sti...

I had a great time getting to chat with Alex from Dancing Skeleton Meadery all about what it's like to own a meadery in Oklahoma! They brew strictly traditional meads and I find that to be so unique and fun. You can try some of their mead and order off their website if you would like to support them. Huge thanks to Alex for sitting down and chatting with me!

Support Dancing Skeleton Meadery here: https://dancingskelet...