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Join Oskaar in Fullerton June 4, 2011 and make some mead!

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Hello to all of you GotMeaders!

I'll be doing a meadmaking seminar/demonstration in Fullerton, California on Saturday, June 4, 2011 at Addison Homebrew Provisions.

I'll be making a melomel (tentatively a tart cherry) using my own unique technique and explaining the process as I whip up the batch of mead. I'll also post the recipe here on GotMead in the Patron Section.

If you plan on coming out, bring a bottle of mead with you (or two. . . maybe three) and join the fun. If you have the fixins to make a batch of mead, bring them along as well and we'll have a group-grope orgy of meadmaking right there on the spot, and I can help you dial in your recipes and show you my way of making some great mead.

Here's the address and phone for the location:

1328 East Orangethorpe Ave
Fullerton, CA 92831
714.752.8446

Trust me when I say my style is unique, half-science, half-intuition and half-technology, some fun and generally involves plenty of taste testing (of finished mead, and of course the must).

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Cheers,

Oskaar

 

Oskaar

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that'd be a long swim for me too! An Asian-Australian tour perhaps, Oskaar? :)

Now that would be nice, my sister lives in Australia (Victoria) so it would be nice to get down there and give her a rough time, and hassle my nephew. They were up for Christmas and New Year's 2010 and 2011. But it's such a long way and it would be nice to see them more than once a year!

Cheers,

Oskaar
 

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If you can go, do it! Nobody has more fun at a meadmaking orgy than Oskaar! ;D

Haha, totally true! This should be a blast, we have folks from several of the local brew clubs coming to join the fun.

Cheers,

Oskaar
 

YogiBearMead726

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Got the 4th off, so I'll be there!

Now, when you say to bring stuff to make a batch, just whatever we want to make? Or will everyone make a cherry mead? Either way, I need to do something with my goldenrod honey before SWMBO uses it all. ;)
 

Oskaar

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Got the 4th off, so I'll be there!

Now, when you say to bring stuff to make a batch, just whatever we want to make? Or will everyone make a cherry mead? Either way, I need to do something with my goldenrod honey before SWMBO uses it all. ;)

Feel free to bring whatever you want to make. I'll be doing a tart cherry mel, but you're free to make whatever you like and I'll help to dial in your recipe.

Cheers, and glad to see that you'll be there.

Oskaar
 

wildoates

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Believe me when I say that I would rather go to this event on the 4th than the wedding on the 5th. To the nth degree.

Yeah, one o' them family events. Sigh.
 

kudapucat

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Believe me when I say that I would rather go to this event on the 4th than the wedding on the 5th. To the nth degree.

Yeah, one o' them family events. Sigh.

+1
I even have the day off!
I'd do anything to escape winter atm... it's so depressing.
I wish every year that I could put on some mead to ferment in the nice cool climes, and then go north for the winter. (Yeah, north. Everything's upside down here remember)
 

Oskaar

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Looks like we're going to have a pretty good turnout so far, plus there will be a beer making demo going on before I do the cherry melomel demo. Should be a hoot!

Like I said, if you have honey, yeast and water, plus something to ferment in, come on down and make some mead!

Cheers,

Oskaar
 
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