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Steampunk is this Weekend!

10/31/2017

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Did you know that we're collaborating with ourselves to sponsor the Steampunk Expo?

That's right! Groennfell and Havoc are teaming up with Vermont Gatherings to bring you Vermont's very first Steampunk Expo!!!

Go get your tickets right now!
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Ask the Meadmaker Ep. 99 - The Original Meadiac

10/28/2017

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In which Ricky the Meadmaker answers questions about yeast nutrient vs. yeast energizer, cold crashing to preserve sweetness, shaking buckets, brewing with rose water, and more!
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Mead Cocktail: Stepping Stone

10/27/2017

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Mead Cocktail: Stepping Stone - 2 oz. Spiced Rum; Dash Angostura Bitters; Top with Old Wayfarer. - Groennfell Meadery
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Thursday Fun Fact 10-26: Nora's Goats

10/26/2017

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Think this Thursday Fun Fact is too macabre? Join us on Saturday for the Feast of the Goat and tell us all about it!
Thursday Fun Fact 10-26 - Groennfell Meadery - Baby Nora hand-selected the goats for our feast this weekend!
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Meet the Goats! (And the Farmer)

10/23/2017

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This Saturday we’re hosting the Feast of the Goat at the Mead Hall, and we are outrageously excited!

Every bite of food we’re preparing comes from a Vermont Farm, so we thought it would great to tell you a little bit about the Star of the Show: Nathaniel Stratton.

Nathaniel is an integral part of the operations at Putting Down Roots in South Royalton. He lives right there on the farm with his beloved goat herd.

Here’s what Nathaniel has to say about his practices in his own words:
“All the goats are Alpine goats and mixes. I pick up bucklings from dairy farms throughout the state as they're born in the spring.

“They're bottle-fed milk from local dairies until they go out on pasture in mid-May.

“I take them on walks before they go out on pasture to get their rumens used to the fresh grass. They are part of a multi-species group that I am using intensive rotational grazing practices with to increase my soil and forage quality.

“I move them at least once a day and love to just hang out with them after I do.”

Nathaniel will not only be joining us for The Feast, but will also be bringing some live goats along to talk about the practices that go into sustainably raising meat animals up here in Vermont!

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Thursday Fun Fact 10-19: Mead of Brotherly Love

10/19/2017

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Thursday Fun Fact 10-19 - Calling all Meadiacs of Brotherly Love! Ricky the Meadmaker is dropping in on the Stoney Creek Homebrewers tonight! - Groennfell Meadery
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How to Get Bacon into Your Mead

10/15/2017

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Let’s side-step – if we may – the question of whether or not bacon should be used in brewing.
Let us, instead, agree that bacon should be in as many things as possible, and if that includes mead, so be it.
 
Over the years, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about the best way to get bacon into a batch of mead. Many people wonder if they can just cook it up and throw it in like a handful of cinnamon sticks.
​The answer to this is: No. Please don’t do that.
 
So, no beating around the bush here. There is a superior way to get bacon into a fermented beverage and this is it:
 
The Cooking Stage. The goal here is to get as much fat out as possible, as this won’t lend any flavor to your beverage, but to still get a good maillard reaction.
  1. Start with good bacon. This should be a no brainer. Thick slab Danish is our go-to. For a five gallon batch we use about one cookie sheet’s worth.
  2. Preheat your oven to 325 F.
  3. Lay the bacon in a single layer on a cooling rack set into a cookie sheet with sides. The rack should be tall enough that the fat accumulates underneath the bacon.
  4. Put the bacon into the oven, and watch it carefully. When it begins to crisp but before it gets too dark, pull it out and press the bacon between sheets of paper towels until you get as much grease out as humanly possible.
  5. Feel free to use the grease from the cookie sheet for any hedonistic activity.
 
Preparing your tincture. There are two schools of thought here. The first group advocates for a good vodka to really let the bacon flavor shine through. The second group pushes for whiskey because then your mead has bacon and whiskey in it when you’re done. We are of the latter school.
  1. Crumble your bacon into a pint glass full of your liquor of choice.
  2. Leave the glass out at room temperature for one week.
  3. Strain out all of the bacon, preserving the liquid in a second glass.
  4. Place the glass in your freezer and wait 12 hours.
  5. There should be further fat collected on the surface of the liquid. Scrape this off.
  6. The remaining liquid is your bacon juice (aka tincture).
 
Adding your tincture. This is where your goals and personal taste come into play.
  1. Taste your tincture. (As if you needed us to tell you.)
  2. Add as much as you think is appropriate to your batch right at bottling or kegging.
  3. Wait your normal conditioning period.
  4. Drink a pint, and don’t forget to toast to your liver and your arteries!
 
Enjoy, Meadiacs! Send us photos of your favorite pint!
 


Blah blah blah, normal disclaimer about the fact that you just left meat sitting in a jug of whiskey at room temperature for a week.

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Ask the Meadmaker EP. 98 - After the Barrow Wights

10/14/2017

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In which Ricky the Meadmaker answers questions about pumpkin mead, using honey as a priming sugar, getting mead to 22%, the mystery of honey as a clarifying agent, and more!
Further Reading:
It's Punkin' Chunkin' Time Again!
Developing a Mead Recipe
How We Brew Everything We Brew
Recipes
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Mead Cocktail: Last Hurrah

10/13/2017

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Mead Cocktail: Last Hurrah - 2 oz. Gin; Many Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters; Top with Buckland. - Groennfell Meadery
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Thursday Fun Fact 10-12: Bombadil vs. Practicality

10/12/2017

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Thursday Fun Fact 10-12 - Groennfell Meadery - According to J.R.R. Tolkien, Tom Bombadil represents
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