The Mead House
The Mead House podcast, 3 guys sitting around the table talking mead, and on occasion wander out into the yard and talk home brewing. Fun, entertaining and instructional, The Mead House will provide you with 90 minutes of home brewing entertainment you don't want to miss!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 19
- Years Active
- 2025
Episode 288 – Fall Flavors
Chris and Jeff take some time to brainstorm on fall flavors and what makes a good fall mead now that Kansas City weather has taken a decidedly more pleasant turn in recent weeks. The guys share some …
00:48:04 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Episode 287 – Soda Meads
Chris shares some thoughts and recipe ideas regarding making meads inspired by popular sodas like Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper. The guys discuss their thoughts on making a mead that tastes like a soda …
00:46:39 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Episode 286 – Microbiology of Yeast
Jeff gives Chris a rundown on a handful of tools and processes to go beyond single use yeast packs at your local homebrew store. From freezing for long term storage, reuse, collecting, and even captu…
00:57:32 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Episode 285 – Recipe Development Process
Chris and Jeff take some time to walk through their own process for planning and developing a recipe including ingredients, thought process and planning – and of course a few anecdotes and tangents a…
00:54:02 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Episode 284 – Tinctures & Having Fun Serving Mead
Chris and Jeff take a deeper dive into the world of tinctures, what they are, how to make them, why to use them, and different approaches above and beyond a base spirit and an herb or spice. Then, in…
00:52:04 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Episode 283 – Making Mead versus Beer & Wine, Estimating Starting Amounts for Adjuncts
It’s a content packed episode this week on The Mead House, Jeff and Chris reflect on some of the differences between the process of making a mead versus making a beer or a wine. Chris tries a taste o…
01:04:01 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Episode 282 – Bochets and Stalled Batches
Jeff and Chris walk through a few different methods for caramelizing honey and making bochet style meads, along with a little discussion of their successes and failures along the way. Then, Jeff give…
00:52:22 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Episode 281 – Labeling Mead and Hopped Meads
It’s a listener request episode! First the guys discuss various options for labeling mead for home mead makers, from elaborate to extremely simple. Then, they discuss adding hops, from why, to how, a…
00:48:55 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Episode 280 – Competition Prep
It’s another longer topic this week as the guys dig into getting ready to get meads to competition. They talk finishing your meads with an eye for entering, packaging your mead, options for shipping …
00:49:48 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 279 – Mead Making Faults
The guys take a deep dive into the various faults one can encounter while making mead, and talk steps to mitigate and deal with them as they spring up. The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus …
01:18:49 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Episode 278 – Getting Started Beekeeping (or not), Jeff’s Lemon Mead, Sour Meads
It’s a three-topic Thursday at the Mead House. In the first topic, Jeff discusses his experience beekeeping and things a home mead maker should think about before getting into the hobby themselves. T…
01:19:27 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Episode 277 – Roane’s Experiment and Growing Berries in Containers
Chris’ son Roane has undertaken an experiment making the cheapest mead possible, comparing mead made with wine yeast and mead made with bread yeast. Chris and Jeff try an experiment to see if they ca…
00:54:04 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Episode 276 – Making Meads Fast, Using Kviek and Jeff’s Modern Orange
With the calendar turning over to June and the temperatures climbing, we’re definitely in the summer months. Usually that means making mead gets tricky but Jeff throws out some ways to make your summ…
00:57:31 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Episode 275 – Adding Whole Fruit and Refining Recipes
Jeff and Chris talk in more depth about using whole fruit for making mead, including process and procedures, cautions and best practices, along with why it might be preferable to several of the easie…
00:55:24 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Episode 274 – Carbonation and Evaluating Recipes Published Online
It’s another two topic episode! In the first part, Jeff gives Chris a deeper dive into the ins and outs of carbonation, discussing the pros and cons of bottle conditioning versus kegging. In part two…
00:54:59 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Episode 273 – The Mead House 12% Recipe
Jeff lays out the basic recipe for a 12% starter mead recipe along with some discussion on what makes this different than the previous 8% recipe and what extra techniques we need to use to get the en…
00:47:29 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Episode 272 – Kitbashing
Jeff and Chris spend a bit talking about an easy way to get started in making new kinds of meads – utilizing kits. Whether it’s fruit wine, regular wine, cider, or beer, it’s a great way to get start…
00:37:34 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Episode 271 – Historical Meads and Metheglins
The guys spend some time reviewing historical ingredients used across a variety of historical cultures all around the globe. Chris issues a friendly challenge to brew a historical mead recipe (see th…
00:50:56 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Episode 270 – Fortified Meads and Mead Cocktails
Jeff and Chris wander deep in the weeds this week, broadening the possibilities of making good meads and giving themselves even more mead ideas to work on in the process. First a discussion on fortif…
00:36:17 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
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