The Mead House

Jeff Shouse
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Two good friends invite you to join their conversation as they explore the topic of making great mead at home.

  1. Episode 309 - Maintenance

    5D AGO

    Episode 309 - Maintenance

    Jeff and Chris take some time going in depth regarding maintenance steps for equipment used on the day to day when it comes to meadmaking, from glass carboys, plastic buckets and stainless steel fermenters, along with all the smaller bits and bobs like rubber grommets, transfer tubes and airlocks. Valkyrie’s Horn Mead Competition: https://home.valkyrieshorn.com/ The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our discount code MHP10 for all your shopping and supply needs! Thank you Bacchus & Barleycorn!

    45 min
  2. Episode 308 - More on Personalizing Recipes

    JAN 22

    Episode 308 - More on Personalizing Recipes

    The guys realized in all of last week’s talk of fruit and spice additions to recipes, they’d completely neglected to talk about several important finishing steps, so this week they move to correct that with a discussion on oaking, finishing, fining and filtering, and a few words on bottling as well! Valkyrie’s Horn Mead Competition: https://home.valkyrieshorn.com/ The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our discount code MHP10 for all your shopping and supply needs! Thank you Bacchus & Barleycorn!

    59 min
  3. Episode 307 - Personalizing Recipes

    JAN 15

    Episode 307 - Personalizing Recipes

    Last year the guys gave you three basic starter recipes – traditionals with an ABV of 8%, 12%, and 16%. Today Jeff and Chris start wading into taking these recipes – or any other recipe you find – and making them your own with advice on when and how to add fruit, spices, and even a brief commentary on carbonation. The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our discount code MHP10 for all your shopping and supply needs! Thank you Bacchus & Barleycorn!

    58 min
  4. Episode 306 - The Mead House AI Challenge Part 2

    JAN 8

    Episode 306 - The Mead House AI Challenge Part 2

    Jeff and Chris return to feeding prompts into Large Language Model Chatbot AIs to test their capacity to create recipes, this time testing the ability to manage a more technically complicated prompt as well as a potentially confounding subjective prompt. Afterwards the guys give a few brief thoughts on the utility of these models in recipe development. Raw responses for the two prompts given can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bxiG7W3OrP62xyrwxpgkxI4swYGAiTLFJvAiK25gfhw/edit?usp=sharing The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our discount code MHP10 for all your shopping and supply needs! Thank you Bacchus & Barleycorn!

    1h 10m
  5. Episode 305 - 2025 in Review

    JAN 1

    Episode 305 - 2025 in Review

    The guys spend a little time talking through their year making episodes of the mead house, favorite parts, proud moments and even a little room for growth, along with a few hints as to where things may end up going in 2026! The Mead House Podcast is sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn! Use our discount code MHP10 for all your shopping and supply needs! Thank you Bacchus & Barleycorn!

    1h 1m
  6. Episode 304 - Holidays with The Mead House

    12/25/2025

    Episode 304 - Holidays with The Mead House

    Happy Holidays from The Mead House to your house! In this holiday episode, Jeff and Chris are joined by their wives Sheila and Kat for a laid back, fun session of mead tasting and a couple rounds of a card game called Principle Dilemma giving you and us a break from the sometimes hectic holiday season. The drawing for The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm and The Flavor Bible has been extended one final week! To enter, send an email, or two if desiring to enter for both, to info@themeadhouse.com. Enter “Ken” in the subject line to enter for The […]

    1h 42m
  7. Episode 303 - The Mead House AI Challenge Part 1

    12/18/2025

    Episode 303 - The Mead House AI Challenge Part 1

    Jeff and Chris decide to test the validity of using AI to design mead recipes – in what quickly becomes a multi-episode topic, the guys discuss feeding a simple prompt for a cherry mead recipe to four of the most popular Large Language Model AI chatbots – ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok and Claude. Additional similar prompts for a chocolate cherry were also given, results contained below. For the Google Doc with full text for Cherry and Chocolate Cherry prompts (warning, 21 pages in length) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bg-rXEdXc4fZ8nzOZ63gJRUN0pNomXx-SvhlsqooljQ/edit?usp=sharing To enter the drawing for either a copy of The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm or […]

    1h 21m
  8. Episode 302 - Tamarind

    12/11/2025

    Episode 302 - Tamarind

    Jeff and Chris take some time to play with the Iron Bee 2026 secret ingredient – Tamarind. A really fascinating fruit with a bunch of different ways to add it to a mead, they taste a few different ways to get it into a mead and throw around a few additional flavor combination ideas. Iron Bee 2026 entry link: https://ironbee.brewcomp.site/ To enter the drawing for either a copy of The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm or The Flavor Bible, send an email, or two if desiring to enter for both, to info@themeadhouse.com. Enter “Ken” in the subject line to enter […]

    53 min
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Two good friends invite you to join their conversation as they explore the topic of making great mead at home.

Information

  • Creator
    Jeff Shouse
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2017 The Mead House
  • Show Website
    The Mead House