Kung Pao Cousin (Pepper-Spiced Mead) Recipe

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

Better Judge a Mead | Carvin Wilson

  This week, we continue the Better Judge a Mead interview series with National Mead Maker of the Year Josh Holbrook talking Carvin Wilson. Among Carvin’s credits: Meadmaker of the Year from both AMMA and AHA, member of the AHA Governing Committee, co-founder of the Mead Institute, and home competition organizer for Mazer Cup. Plus,