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Better Judge a Mead | Tom Repas

August 20, 2021chopandbrewEPISODESadvice, advice for judging mead, beekeeping, better judge a mead, BJCP, canyon rim honey bees, chop and brew, fermentation, homebrew, homebrewing, honey, honey wine, honeywine, how to judge mead, how to make mead, interview, josh holbrook, judging mead, mara ume, mead, mead judge, mead makers, mead making, pyment, tips, tom repas, what is mead, zen bee meadery

In Part Four of the Better Judge of Mead video interview series, Josh Holbrook talks all things mead judging with Tom Repas. Tom has a long list of achievements on his mead resume including two-time Best of Show winner at Mazer Cup, and winner of the AMMA National Mead Maker of the Year and AMMA

Chop & Brew – Episode 21: Meet the Brewer – Mino Choi

February 16, 2014chopandbrewEPISODESadvice, awards, Beer, chip walton, chop and brew, fermentation, hard cider, homebrew, homebrewing, how to make beer at home, how to make wine at home, icewine, making hard cider at home, making mead at home, medals, mino choi, upper Mississippi mash out, wine5 Comments

Meet award-winning fermentologist Mino Choi. In just three years of making beer, cider, wine and mead at home Mino has earned dozens of medals and awards – his most recent victories for the Chop & Brew Homebrew Club. We sit down with Mino for a gold-medal flight of beer, cider, icewine and melomel to discuss