Saturday, August 5th is National Mead Day! The MN Homebrewers Association
will team up with the MN Hobby Beekeepers Association from 10:00am-2:00pm
at Russ and Winnie Johnson?s apiary in Elk River for a day of mead-making,
mead tasting, and (possibly) honey extraction.
WE ARE HOSTING A BUS TO THE APIARY. The club bus will leave from Midwest
Hoembrewing at 8:45am. Contact AlBoyce(a)bigfoot.com by Aug 3, 5pm to
reserve your seat. We need to get a minimum of 15 people, at $15 each.
The more people we get, the cheaper it will be. You DON?T want to be
driving home from Mead Day!!!
The brewers will demonstrate mead-making and provide samples of past
batches, which run the gamut from varietal honey meads to melomels,
pyments, braggots and metheglyns. The beekeepers will teach the brewers
about the processes that produce the main ingredient in mead - honey!
2005 Meadmaker of the Year Curt Stock will be giving a presentation at
10am, so be there early!
The address is 23114 Variolite Street in Elk River, MN 55330. Please
bring chairs, some snacks and of course - mead! If you would like to make
mead that day, please bring a clean, food-grade bucket with a lid, 3 lbs.
of honey per gallon of mead you wish to make, and a yeast of your choice.
If you?ve not made mead before, experienced meadmakers will be on-hand to
guide you. In case of inclement weather, the Johnsons have a barn to hide
in. Please bring 2 labeled bottles of your mead as a gift for hosting us!
Custom Mead Day t-shirts and other items are available thru Aug. 6 for
purchase at cost from:
http://cafepress.com/meadday . THIS STORE WILL
DISAPPEAR ON AUGUST 6TH - GET YOUR MEAD DAY ITEMS NOW!!
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