4-13-21 Tonight we're chatting with Pierre Rodrigue, a prolific wine and meadmaker living in Alberta, Canada.

Pierre has been fermenting wine since 1985. His 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, The Modern Art of Wine and Mead.

In his spare time you can find him drawing, baking, cooking, curing and smoking meats, or long distance target shooting.

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Upcoming Shows

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Show links and notes

Top, Middle and Base Notes: A Comprehensive List
The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual - James Green and Ajana
Food Pairing website
The Flavor Bible
The Flavor Matrix - the Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extrordinary Dishes
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Unlock'd - Historical mead recipes
Wellcome Mead by Laura Angotti
Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff
The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff
Take part in Kevin Meintsma's Hydromel Study - email hydromel@wtibiz.com and he'll send you questions

Upcoming Events

April 14 - Scale and Feather Meadery - Beer Talks - Online
April 17 - Point Lookout Vineyards, Hendersonville, NC - Mead Tasting and Mead History
April 18 - MoonJoy Meadery, Lenoir, NC - Mead and Mindfulness
April 22 - Bulgarian Craft Mead, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - Launch Party - Get Buzzed!
April 24 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Sigurblot - A Viking Festival
April 30 - Charm City Meadworks - Online Mead Tasting
May 10 - el Bait Shop, Des Moines, IA - Mead Week - Tapping kegs from Schramm's Mead, Moonlight Meadery, B. Nektar, East Grove Farms. Bottle pours from Superstition, Moonlight, Schramm's and more.
May 21-22 - UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center - Mead: Getting Creative
May 22 - Sugarbelt Mead Festival - put on by Manic Meadery, Crown Point Indiana
June 1 - Leaky Roof Meadery, Buffalo, MO- Open Jam with food vendor Ben’s Hotdogs & Brats
June 20 - Orchid Cellar Meadery, Middletown, MD - Father's Day Flight of Spice - try their spicy meads
July 3 - White Winter Meadery, Cidery and Distillery, Iron River, WI - 25th Anniversary Celebration
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