11-7-17 We're back with another edition of Making Modern Mead. And we're headed back to Australia, to talk with Steve Kirby, owner of Stone Dog Meadery  in Yarra, New South Wales, Australia. Steve is a braggot monster, and makes a lot of them.

Steve started brewing in 1990, and his first attempt at fermenting was a plum wine made in his parents’ laundry and he's been brewing ever since. Along the way he has been mentored by champion amateur and commercial brewers, been awarded both gold and silver medals in NSW state competitions and gold in the 2014 National homebrew championship (mead category) as well as having one of his beers showcased in that year’s gala dinner.

He's been brewing mead for 5 years now after first being introduced to it through the Society for Creative Anachronism, and is a bear for braggots. He's making a lot of braggot for his meadery, Stone Dog, in Australia.


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Show links and notes

Radical Brewing: Recipes, Tales and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass by Steve Mosher
Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles by Ray Daniels
Sheperd's Delight Malt

The Flavor Bible

The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff

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