Consuming The Craft

What does it take to become a great mazer? Or brewmaster? Or winemaker? John Lyda—full-time instructor at A-B Tech’s Craft Beverage Institute of the Southeast and meadmaker extraordinaire—says that the key is playing around with the different flavors your raw materials can give you. He’s brought a bottle of mead he found all the way from Denmark to demonstrate what he means. In this Booze Bits episode, John and I have a bottle of mead from the Danish company Dansk Mjød, and discuss mead making. We discuss how Game of Thrones and Vikings revived interest in mead. We also highlight why we need to support bees and beekeepers and outline the key ingredients of quality mead. This week on Consuming the Craft: ●     Tasting the Dansk Mjød mead from Denmark●     The revival of mead●     Honey conspiracy, hive collapse, and the inflated price of honey●     What gives mead different flavors●     The study of growing grapes and the key to being a great mazer●     The bottle of mead that should be named Michael●     Givi