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
Recipe provided by award-winning meadmaker and two-time Meadmaker of the Year Steve Fletty as a roadmap for home fermenters looking to make a somewhat simple and straightforward traditional mead as you explore the characteristics of different and unique honeys. This recipe is written for orange blossom honey, but Fletty provides some yeast suggestions to use
The world of hybrid yeast strains is nearly endless and Imperial Yeast is tapping into that biodiversity in brewing yeast with the new Imperialis Project. Dr. Matt Winans, Imperial’s R&D Scientist, joins Chip to talk about the the first release from that series, I22 Capri, and get technical on the topics of breeding brewing
