Well this is not about video of the festival. But I just finished watching the seceret life of honey program on the food network. No mention of the meadfest. But a small portion of the program was about mead. So here is my review for those who didn't catch it.
Well of course I poured myself a glass of mead to watch.
As a mazer for 4 years and a beekeeper of almost 1 year. Wow did i want to strangle the host!!!! ;D
That guy was a dope when they took him to the apiaries. But I did learn one fact about honey from the show i did not know.
Did you know that they used to use honey as anti freeze in cars???
I found that rather intresting.
Most of the rest of the honey facts were pretty well known to an experineced mead maker such as us here at the forum. Not much new but the anti frezee part.
For the mead part of the show . About 5 minutes of a half hour program. They went to Burget winery I believe was the name of it. The producer of Chaucer's mead. It was very superficial to say the least. The host only tasted warm chaucers with the spice packet added. Which I know most here don't like chaucers, but I do. Though I haven't had it spiced. They did have a quick run through of mead production. I believe they ferment 4000 gallon batches. Not sure I was so busy looking at the meadry rather then listening to the fool host.
They then went onto varital honeys and then to a large bee keeping area in British Columbia. With a giant bee statue where they produce 10,000,000lbs of honey a year! Or vice versa still working on my mead as I type.
Then onto a bee festival in Georgia.
To sum up the show. Well I guess I did that but.
1. For experinced mazers. Don't lose sleep if you missed it.
2. For Newbs. Its worth watching. I guess???? You probably already learned more from the forum!
3. For the beekeepers out there. It was ridiculous!
4. For the masses it was probably pretty informative. Though I wish they spent more time on the historical aspect of honey and mead and its importance to mankind.
But the positive of this show was that, however many people watched it. I'm sure that most of the viewers had never heard of mead and the word has gotten out.
The biggest bummer was no mention of the meadfest, which after this intial post was why I was watching.
Oh well, at least there is always next year to get meadfest some national exposure!
