10-31-17 Making Modern Mead – Eric Lowe – Meridian Hive – Session Meads

10-31-17 Hoppy Mead-o-Ween! We are back tonight to continue our series in Making Modern Mead. We've been talking about styles, and tonight we're talking session meads with Eric Lowe, co-owner of Meridian Hive Meadery in Austin, Texas. Even though session meads, i.e. lower alcohol meads between 4 and 8%, are a sack mead and can be in any style, we are pulling it out in an episode to focus on how to make your meads better at this level. Meridian Hive turns out some of the tastiest session meads around, and they've a pile of medals to back that up. Eric and Mike have several types of canned sessions, and they're all tasty. We're going to pick Eric's brains on making awesome session meads, and learn more about being able to reliably make stable low-alcohol meads. Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! Join us 9PM ET tonight! (8PM CT/7PM MT/6PM PT) Want to join the conversation, give us a call!! 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. If you want us to tackle your mead making questions, you can send us a question and we'll tackle it online! Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback. Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! Show links and notes The Flavor Bible The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events October 31 - Rabbit's Foot Meadery - Annual Halloween Party November 1 - Honeymoon Mead and Cider - Pace Rubadeau November 1 - New Day Craft Mead - Mead and Knead - weekly mead and massage November 2 - Bos Meadery - Comedy at the Meadery - a Comedy Jam November 3 - St. Ambrose Cellars - Music - The Feral Cats November 4 - St. Ambrose Cellars - Music - Unabunner November 5 - Starrlight Meadery - A Tasteful Event - Benefitting Ronald McDonald House Got an event you’d like us to mention on GotMead Live? Send us an email at [email protected] and tell us about it!