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Episode 298 – More Mailbag Questions and Fruit Tasting Nov 13, 2025

The guys take a look at a few more questions they didn’t get around to the first time around from cruising social media from last week. They also talk through a trip to Total Wine and a few natural food grocers looking for ingredient inspiration, which leads to tasting two new fruit varieties Chris had …

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Episode 297 – Getting Social Nov 06, 2025

Jeff and Chris look at some questions posted by users on social media, Facebook and Reddit, answering them and discussing several of the topics in more depth. The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our discount code MHP10 for all your shopping and supply needs! Thank you Bacchus & Barleycorn!

Episode 296 – Gluten-Free Braggots Oct 30, 2025

Following the episode two weeks ago regarding using Gruit inspired ingredients to make a braggot without hops, Jeff talks Chris through options for making a braggot which is either gluten-reduced or completely gluten-free, the process for going about both and some adjuncts and ingredients used in either process. The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus …

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Episode 295 – Mead Cocktails Oct 23, 2025

Chris mixes up and talks through a series of four cocktails made with traditional mead as one of the ingredients, and makes them for he and Jeff to sample. Blackberry Mead-Fashioned 3 fresh blackberries 2tsp honey syrup 2 dashes bitters orange peel 1 1/2 oz mead 1oz bourbon splash of water Bee’s Knees 2oz gin …

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Episode 294 – Gruit Oct 16, 2025

Jeff and Chris wander out into the yard and back to the olden days of brewing to examine a way to make beer using herbs and spices in place of hops, talking through some of the historical and some of the modern herbs being used, and how to incorporate these herbs into a gruit beer, …

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Episode 293 – Christmas Meads Oct 09, 2025

Jeff and Chris continue making their lists. Jeff shares a rather involved recipe for a Christmas braggot with some fun ingredients (recipe below!) and then the guys spend a long while plotting out several ideas for flavor combinations that might just hit the spot for a Christmas seasonal brew. The Mead House Sugar Plum Fairy …

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Episode 292 – The Mead House 16% Oct 02, 2025

What do you do with a drunken meadmaker? To complement the previous Mead House 8% and Mead House 12% recipes, this week Jeff presents the highest base recipe yet, a 16%. He walks Chris through the process and ingredients, along with subtle changes from previous base recipes, then Jeff and Chris spend a little time …

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Episode 291 – Exotic Fruits and Processing Fruit Sep 25, 2025

Chris and Jeff spend a little time going down the rabbit hole of fruits that are exotic, hard to find, or otherwise rarely seen in meads, as well as talking about how to handle working with an unfamiliar fruit. Various ways to process fruits for making a mead also quickly become a topic of discussion. …

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Episode 290 – Halloween Meads Sep 18, 2025

Jeff and Chris spend a little time chatting about meads for the spooky season. Both share a personal recipe that fits the holiday fun (see below!) and then the guys riff on ideas like candy meads, and much like their thoughts on meads made from soda versus meads inspired by soda, they also give some …

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Episode 289 – Time Management and Tools Sep 11, 2025

Chris and Jeff spend some time talking about strategies for making time for making mead and getting mead made in an efficient manner, then they also take time to cover some equipment that can be a major time saver for your mead making processes. The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our …

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