3-29-22 Pierre Rodrigue – All Juice Meads, Flavor Profiles and Creating Meads

3-29-22 Tonight we're talking with Pierre Rodrigue, home meadmaker in Alberta, Canada. Pierre has been with us before, he's an  award winning meadmaker  who likes to work with juice, and like us, is a flavor maven. Pierre has been fermenting wine since 1985. Early batches consisted of kits, and fruits and berries. As there weren’t a lot of publications then and zero internet, he learned a lot by trial and error. Pierre began mead making in the fall of 2016, and has won several medals and Best of Show at Canada’s Mellarius Cup. His penchant for all juice meads is fairly well known on social media, where he moderates GotMead, Modern Mead Makers, Home Made Wine Making, and his own page, Mead and Wine Crafting. In his spare time you can find him drawing, baking, cooking, curing and smoking meats, or long distance target shooting. This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback.[break] [break]Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! Sponsor: Honnibrook Craft Meadery. Rated the very best winery in Colorado! Visit our state-of-the-art meadery and tasting room south of downtown Castle Rock, Colorado, in a converted man cave. Mention the Got Mead Podcast this month for a free draft taster!  Google H-O-N-N-I Brook for hours and directions. They love visitors!  www.honnibrook.com If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @GotmeadNow and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT Join us on live chat during the show Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows April 12 - RJ Cassle - Bragging Rooster Meadery in Warrenton, NC April 26 - Rachel Lipman - Loew Vineyards Show links and notes Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events Mar 31 - HoneyGirl Meadery, Durham, NC - Queen Bee Virtual Mead Tasting of 3 meads from HoneyGirl. Order your tasting kits to join in! April 1 - Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT - Spring Mead and Read April 2 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Sip and Paint with Cateleya Jewelry Studio April 2-3 Mountain Run Winery, Culpeper, VA - Mead and Mayhem 2022 - 2 day full contact armored combat fighting event April 3 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Honey and Mead Tasting Class April 3 - Skål Beer Hall, Seattle, WA - Spring Mead Festival - seven local meaderies on hand to pour: Æsir Meadery - Everett, WA Artivem Mead - Bellingham, WA Ethereal Mead - Battleground, WA Hierophant Mead - Freeland, WA Contrivance Mead - Tukwila, WA Oppegaard Meadery - Tukwila, WA Thunderland Mead - Duvall, WA April 3 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Sunday Sessions: Mead and Music April 6 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Mead and Chocolate Class April 9 - ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA - 2022 Central PA Kiltcon! April 9 - Meadiocrity Mead, San Marcos, CA - Viking Raiding Party! Walk MS Fundraiser April 10 - Firefly Gathering, Barnardsville, NC - Magical Mead Making Class April 12 - Battle and Brew, Sandy Springs, GA - Mead and Minis - paint minis and drink Viking Alchemist mead April 23 - Potter Township VFD, Monaca, PA - Knights of the Round Table Mead Tasting Fundraiser April 23 - Northerns Beekeeping Association, Pretoria, South Africa - Mead Making and Bee Venom Therapy Training Day April 23 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - 2nd Annual Sigurblot - 40 vendors, live combat, blacksmithing, belly dancing, food trucks, live music April 24 - American Mead Makers Association - Mead Matters #8 - Making Mead with Kveik