7-15-25 Tonight at 9PM ET we'll be talking with Tom Repas. Tom has been on the show before, and we're having him back, as he's an absolute fountain of information! And he makes 'ok' mead. We're going to delve into the bees and their care.
What you may not be aware of is that 3 years ago, Tom started making his 'ok' meads professionally. Apiflora Mead, made and available at Zymurcracy Beer Company in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Tom is a Master Beekeeper and owner of Canyon Rim Honey Bees, providing bees and honey in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tom speaks on beekeeping all over the country, and has presented several times at the AMMA MeadCon on both beekeeping and meadmaking. Tom has won a large number of awards for his mead as well.
Tom is a 4th generation beekeeper, and has been working with bees since he was a kid. He kept bees and sold the honey for extra money in high school. He went into professional beekeeping while he was still active as a medical doctor, and has developed a cross for bees that are gentle, overwinter well, and are mite resistant.
On the mead side of things, Tom is a very talented mead maker who consistently wins medals with his meads, and has a skill for thinking outside the box for flavor profiles. His mushroom mead was the talk of the mead community for some time when he brought it out to taste. I got to try it, I was stunned at how good it was. Of course, Tom uses his own honey, as well as honeys from other providers and areas, and they're all good! Tom says his meads are 'ok'. We think they're better than that, lol.
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Upcoming Shows
July 29 - Corey Mason - Treehive Meadery
Aug 12 - Matthew Mead
Aug 26 - Brian Green - Centeur Imports
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
July 16 - Kingview Meadery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night
July 16 - Hidden Hive Meadery, Vista, CA - Cheese & Bees: A Social Cheese and Mead Event
July 17 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Blair Miller live music
July 18 - Bumbling Fools Meadery, Minneapolis, MN - Comedy Summer Showcase
July 19 - Four Brothers Meadery, Festus, MO - Femme Fatales live music
July 19 - Dawg Gone Bees Apiary & Meadery, Hanover, PA - Mead Making Class
July 19 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Tim Krause & the Downtowners live music
July 20 - White Winter Meadery & Winery, Iron River, WI - WPR Music Bingo
July 20 - Thistlerock Mead Company, Charlottesville, VA - Kinnfolk live music
July 21 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Honey Bee Marketplace
July 23 - Hidden Hive Meadery, Vista, CA - Cheese and Bees: A Social Cheese and Mead Event
July 24 - Apis Mead and Winery, Carnegie, PA - Thursday South Hills Group Run
July 26 - Four Brothers Meadery, Festus, MO - CheriBomb live music
July 26 - Moonjoy Meadery, Lenoir, NC - Mead and Mindfulness
July 26 - Starrlight Meadery, Pittsboro, NC - CLAWS Bird Rescue visiting
July 26 - Drunken Smithy, Lebanon, PA - Forged Viking Mead Fest
July 28 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Honeybee Marketplace
July 31 - Breedens Orchard, Juliet, TN - Mead and Meditate - Skeptic Meadery Meads
Aug 1 - Bumbling Fools Meadery, Minneapolis, MN - Summer Comedy Showcase
Aug 2 - White Bear Meadery, Maplewood, MN - National Mead Day!
Aug 2 - Apis Mead & Winery, Carnegie, PA - gonesouth live music
Aug 2 - Heidleberg Meadworks, Esperance, NY - 2025 Mead Weekend
Aug 2 - Funktastic Meads and Beer, Midlothian, VA - Mead Day
Aug 2 - WA Meadworks, Lindenhurst, NY - Mead Day
Aug 2 - Alternative Beverage, Belmont, NC - Mead Day
Aug 2 - Metsiederei Eckert, Zofingin, Switzerland - Mead Day
Aug 2 - Viking Alchemist, Smyrna, GA - Mead Day
Aug 2 - Honeygirl Meadery, Durham, NC - Mead Day
Aug 6 - Kingview Meadery, Mount Lebanon, PA - Trivia Night
Aug 9 - Four Fires Meadery, Maumee, OH - Make Your Own Mead - Hands On Fermentation Workshop
Aug 9 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Discord and Rhyme live music
Aug 10 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Alpacapalooza! with Northern Alpacas
Aug 14 - Breeden's Orchard, Mount Juliet, TN - Mead & Meditate - Skeptic Meadery Meads
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