Need yeast? Just take a mason jar out to your beehive and collect a few bees and put them in your beer wort of mead must! Bryan Heit, creator of Sui Generis Brewing blog joins us this episode to talk about wild yeast among other things! Jeff is in a conundrum, his keg collection might be getting out of control according to his wife, and finally, we tackle a few Reddit friends to wrap the show. Hey, hope to see you at the Iron Bee!

Mazer Cup medalist Pavel Anisimov visits the Mead House to share some thoughts on his mead making, a last minute schedule change for segment 2 leads JD and Jeff into a discussion on using used bourbon barrels and barrels in general and we wrap the show with a couple Facebook Friends.

Gina dalla Gasperino from Meridian Cacao Company joins us at the bar to discuss cocoa and the cacao bean. Please visit their website and check out the Education link.

Bryan Pierce from Yakima Chief Hops joins us for an interesting and inspiring discussion on integrating hops into meads. Summertime is right around the corner, what's going to be on tap at your house when you fire up the BBQ? We discuss a few summertime flavors and ideas to get you started, and finally we wrap with a couple questions from our Facebook Friends.

Iron Bee supporter, Josh Eckton owner of a new start-up, White Bear Meadery in White Bear Lake Minnesota joins us this episode, and then with summertime just around the corner, Ryan and Jeff talk Rose...no, not the wine, but inspirations taken from it.  How to get that gorgeous rose color into your mead.

It’s been said that Irish whiskey was the first spirit ever distilled. They’re talking about something that might have occurred around 1 AD. However, it really doesn’t matter if you’ve tried 2 Gingers Irish Whiskey today. Founder and Iron Bee supporter Kieran Folliard stops by the house, and what ensues is

Before you chop down that spruce tree out back so you can use it in your next brew, you might want to listen to our guest this episode, Randy Schnose from Spruce On Tap. Randy gives us the what for's and why not's of using spruce tips in our brews, JD has a hair-brained idea for one of his port mead projects, yes...it includes bourbon, we go around the table and find out what's cookin', and a few Facebook friends get some answers.

"A guy shows up in Grass Valley, has a friend he's only known for 6 months, knows nothing about home brewing, and winds up going in with his friend to buy a home brew shop...then comes up with an idea for a product every home brewer needs." Only in America! Anthony Schoensee from BrewSSSential talks about his adventure leading to the development of a stainless steel auto siphon.

Can you imagine replacing 20-30 pounds of fruit in a melomel with one drop of extract? We welcome Debra Coletti from Amoretti to the show in this episode. JD talks about his first success with a braggot using Ryan's methodology,

In this episode, home meadmaker Jacob Thill stops buy the house to talk about his experimental Polish meads. Jacob is also a mechanical engineer, and he describes some of the equipment he designed in his homebrew setup. Ryan leads a discussion in dealing with outdated and obsolete information found all over the internet, and of course, we use our own experiences to answer a few questions from our Facebook Friends.