11-29-22 Tonight we're chatting it up with Manny Elgarresta, friend, mead maker, previous co-host on Gotmead Live and denizen of Miami. Manny has been making mead for quite a while, and has even converted his garage to making mead, enhancing it so he could make mead and beer in the Miami heat. He has cooling systems, freezers as fermentation enclosures and has even decorated his mead cave with a ton of Star Wars memorabilia, much of it due to late nights with mead on Ebay and other sales sites.

Manny Elgarresta is a native New Yorker now residing in Miami Beach,  who got into homebrew after moving to Miami in 1987 and finding that the variety of beers was limited to Budweiser and Coors with some exotics like Beck's.  After the craft beer boom made beer brewing kind of moot, he looked for a new way to use his fermenter and found mead.  For a little over 10 years he's been trying to perfect a high heat traditional, making gallons of JAOM for the holidays and annoying gotmead podcasters with yeast questions.

Special for tonight, our last show of 2022, Manny has obtained 10 *gallons* of rare Florida Keys mangrove honey, and another 5 gallons of Keys wildflower honey. 180 pounds of rare, organic, unprocessed honey. And here at GotMead Live, Manny is offering these honeys to 10 special folks, to make a really special mead. We will be choosing talented mead makers from our faithful listeners to get a gallon of honey, and make a special mead from it. We intend to feature those meads on GotMead social media and here on GotMead Live in the spring. The rules are simple:

receive the honey (there will be shipping costs, Manny is giving the honey for free)
create a mead that showcases the honey
post to Gotmead (social and/or forum) the recipe and technique
be willing to come on the show later to discuss what you did, why you decided the approach you took, and how it turned out
be willing to get a bottle (can be like a 375) to us on GML so we can enjoy it with you! (and cheer your mead)

So join us tonight to talk meadmaking, combatting the heat, varietal honeys and other great meadmaking info!

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Upcoming Shows

We are off for December, see you January 10!

Show links and notes

Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff
The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff
Let There Be Session Meads by Rob Ratliff

Upcoming Events

Dec 1 - Hierophant Mead, Mead, WA - Spokane Valley Winter Market
Dec 2 - Bragging Rooster Beer & Mead, Warrenton, NC - Live music by the Mary Selvidge Band
Dec 3 - For You Brewing Supplies, Terre Haute, IN - Mead Competition
Dec 3 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - Community Solstice Party, including Ugly Sweater Day and the return of Coffee Mead!
Dec 3 - Gladheart Wine & Brews, Roanoke, VA - Kinnfolk Mead and Cocktails - music by Kinnfolk
Dec 4 - Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC - December First Sunday Sound Bath