In today's episode we are chatting with Carlos from Texas Longhouse Mead! This is part 3 of a series where we follow Carlos into his journey of opening a commercial meadery. Today's episode is shot inside his meadery after he's been open for about 8 months. We chat all about the ups and downs of owning your own business and try some tasty brews. I hope you will support Carlos via the links below! Texas Longhouse Mead Website: https://texaslonghousemead.com Buy some mead: https://texaslonghouseme...
Jun 30, 2025•57 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Today I'm chatting with Matthew from Funktastic Meads! Funktastic Meads is located in Midlothian, Virginia! He's been making mead commercially for about 5 years and is ready to give out some great advice to home brewers and commercial mead makers. Go support them via the links below! Funktastic Meads: https://www.funktasticmeads.com Support the show
May 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Today I'm chatting with Steve from Atheling Meadworks in Virginia! This episode was a ton of fun and you should really check out Atheling Meadworks! Use all the links below to support them Atheling Meadworks Website: https://www.athelingmead.com Chat with Steve via Email: steve@athelingmead.com Support the show
Mar 10, 2025•58 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Today I'm chatting with the incredible mead maker, Kyle Ducharme! He recently won the Ultimate Mead Maker of 2024 in a competition I ran and he has continued his sweep of awards through multiple mead competitions in 2024. He's a great mead maker and a wealth of knowledge. I hope you enjoy this episode with him. Make sure you take some notes! Support the show
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Fill out this form if you have someone who is interested (or you are interested) in coming on the podcast: https://forms.gle/cZRXmoEmMTJbHfGZ9 Check out the main channel! www.YouTube.com/ManMadeMead Want to know what I use? Check it out on my Amazon store of my website! www.ManMadeMead.com Discord Link: https://discord.com/invite/PJaKBGZQ8B www.ManMadeMead.com www.Patreon.com/ManMadeMead www.Facebook.com/ManMadeMeadery Support the show...
Jan 20, 2025•9 min•Season 2Ep. 77
Today we're chatting live with Will and Jake from Black Rabbit Meadery in Reno, Nevada! They're a super cool meadery that does low abv mead and mead cocktails. I've personally tried their stuff and it's fantastic! Support them via the links below: Black Rabbit Mead Website: https://www.blackrabbitmeads.com Support the show
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 76
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 learn how to go from simple ideas to operating your own meadery. Check out ...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 75
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 learn how to go from simple ideas to operating your own meadery. Check out ...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 74
Today I'm chatting with the incredible Bill Boyer! Bill is an awesome mead maker who has won numerous awards throughout his time entering mead, cider and beer competitions over the past few years. He's also gracious enough to share his wisdom with us throughout this podcast. I hope you enjoy this episode! Support the show
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 73
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 running! Support the show
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 72
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 Schramm's Mead via the links below: Schramm's Mead: https://store.schrammsmead.com/sto...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 71
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 sugar, only the wood): https://foragerchef.com/hickory-syrup/ Shagbark hickory from etsy: https://www....
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 70
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" Facebook group if you're interested! Check out the main channel! www.YouTube.com/ManMadeMead Want to kn...
Feb 05, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 69
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.schrammsmead.com/the-compleat-meadmaker-p78.aspx Support the show...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 68
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_--7cOT5ah6RYqjH6P-0NZvok/copy https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FYhI7hNySRQZ8wzIskujd9eu10HvZyVuaQ...
Jan 15, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Today I'm by myself to chat... about mead of course! I'm 353 brews into my career, what have learned so far?! Come find out! Check out the main channel! www.YouTube.com/ManMadeMead Discord Link: https://www.manmademead.com/discord www.ManMadeMead.com www.Patreon.com/ManMadeMead www.Facebook.com/ManMadeMeadery Support the show
Jan 01, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 66
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. Rounds 1 & 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDF64qB0yGQ Round ...
Oct 30, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 65
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.basicbrewing.com Support the show...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 64
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_LjBJpe74E6Q Support the show...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Today I'm chatting with Stephen (SteveO on Discord) all about beer and how it has helped his mead making experience! I have been really trying to dive deeper into beer brewing and Stephen is my go to guy. This podcast was a blast and I hope you enjoy the episode! Support the show
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 62
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! Still It YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@StillIt Support the show...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 61
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://dancingskeletonmeadery.com/ Support the show...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Today I'm chatting with then wonderful couple from Fox and Raven Mead! We had a great time talking about mead, their meadery and some of their process. I had a blast learning all about them and I really hope you enjoy this episode. You can find links to support them and buy some mead from them right here! https://www.foxandravenmead.com/ Support the show
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Today I'm chatting with the incredible talented and kind Will (better known as Chef on all the mead making Internet forums) all about his experience in mead making and the state of online mead making! We get into the weeds of where Reddit, Discord and many other mead making forums have been and currently are. If you want to check out the mead making wiki that he talks about, be sure to check it out here! https://meadmaking.wiki/en/home Support the show...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 58
I'm super excited to share with this very fun episode with you! I got to sit and chat with Nathan Zangmeister and Karysa Kent about their Mead Stampede Best of Show mead and all of their experience in making mead. I hope you enjoy this episode! Support the show
Aug 07, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Today I'm chatting with Ryan from Rebel Hive Meadery all about his mead! Rebel Hive Meadery is a commercial meadery from Pennsylvania. You can purchase some of their mead online or at your local stores in Pennsylvania! Rebel Hive Meadery: https://www.rebelhivemeadery.com Check out the main channel! www.YouTube.com/ManMadeMead Want to know what I use? Check it out on my Amazon store of my website! www.ManMadeMead.com www.ManMadeMead.com www.Patreon.com/ManMadeMead www.Facebook.com/ManMadeMeadery ...
Jul 24, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Today I'm talking with Kyle Ducharme (also known as Greenmountainmead on discord). We're chatting all about home brewing and mead making! He's a super knowledgable and great guy. I hope you enjoy this episode! Support the show
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Today I'm chatting with Jeremy from Flying Bee Ranch all about beekeeping! If you haven't checked out flying bee ranch, you need to get some great honey from them! Check out their website here: https://flyingbeeranch.net/ Support the show
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Today I'm chatting with Michael from Dansk Mjod! You might have seen the Viking Blod mead in stores around you and today you'll get to learn about its origins! Check out their website for more information about their meadery and feel free to buy some of their mead if you are able to! Dansk Mjod Website: https://mjod.dk/en Support the show
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Today I'm chatting with Kevin Meintsma all about mead making! He's a fantastic mead maker and mead competition organizer and you will love our chat about mead competitions, mead making in general and recipe development! Go Support Valkyrie's Horn Mead Competition: https://valkyrieshorn.com Support the AMMA: https://mead-makers.org Support the show
May 22, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 52
