Embark on a most epic flight of traditional meads with two mead masters, Steve Fletty and Josh Holbrook. Traditional meads are made with a single variety of honey and very little else as a way to showcase the characteristics and flavor attributes of that honey. Over the course of almost a dozen examples we try
This sweet heat mead recipe was provided by Josh Holbrook (former Meadmaker of the Year) and includes both the intensely hot Carolina Reaper peppers and tongue-numbing Sansho peppercorns – a cousin to Sichuan peppercorn, thus Kung Pao Cousin. It details fermentation as well as the making of the two pepper tinctures for flavoring. See our
Welcome to the grand finale of the Better Judge a Mead interview series. This six-part series has featured National Homebrewer of the Year talking with some of the best thinkers and drinkers in the world of mead and mead judging. In this video, Josh talks with friend of the show, the always outspoken and fast-talking
