A Guide to Starting a Meadery: Part 4 (Recipes, Ingredients & Packaging)

Welcome back to "A Guide to Starting Your Own Meadery" with Billy Beltz! Billy is one of the co-owners of Lost Cause Meadery in San Diego. Lost Cause is a world famous, award winning meadery that has been in operation for a little over 6 years. Billy has been one of the spearheads of the operations and he has so graciously taken the time to share his knowledge on how to start a meadery. In this multi-part series you will learn how to go from simple ideas to operating your own meadery. Check out the links below to support Billy and Lost Cause meadery and thanks for watching!
Lost Meadery Website: www.lostcausemead.com
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Equipment I Use:
Here are links to equipment and there is a recipe card below:
Glass Carboy (& Airlock): amzn.to/2QP7Mxm
Short Auto-Siphon & Tubing: amzn.to/2YXorU7
Long Auto-Siphon & Tubing: amzn.to/3NOjKFH
Hydrometer: amzn.to/31P3PPF
1 Gallon Keg: amzn.to/3tuYttM
Star San (Sanitizer): amzn.to/32OhXYF
Scale: amzn.to/34TSAaL
Hand Bottle Capper: amzn.to/3buC6at
Bench Capper (Optional): amzn.to/32LZZpY
Hand Corker: amzn.to/32MlxCO
Floor Corker (Optional): amzn.to/3gPgbvq
Wine Corks: amzn.to/3jCvQ2Y
Bottle Caps: amzn.to/3lNMHSD
Bottling Wand: amzn.to/3hR8rKH
Wine Bottles: amzn.to/47enlDT
Synthetic Corks: amzn.to/3tMpKrs
Red Star Yeast Sampler: amzn.to/47en8AB
Check out the Craft-A-Brew Mead Kit:
www.amazon.com/Craft-Brew-Mak...

[@brandonjohnston2101]

Big props to you and Billy for putting this guide together! Looks like it was a lot of work. You keep hitting it out of the park with these interviews!

[@OneImperfectSaint]

I am loving this series so far. Thank you for taking so much time to put together all this together

[@pedrolameiras2495]

Another fantastic video from both, keep up the series. I am not from the US but I have been thinking about opening an meadery for a while, this series comes just in time. Thank you both for so much knowledge

[@eugeniusgentapradana8256]

Thank you so much for this information

[@FonzerelliFinkelstein]

Question: the top layer in my banana mead (it happened in my regular wine as well and slightly darkened it) turns darker brown because it spends a little time between stirring exposed to air. This isn't a problem is it? Should I stir twice a day instead of once or?

[@Jake-Aprile]

How are you stirring it and why are you stirring it?

[@FonzerelliFinkelstein]

@@Jake-Aprile i always stir with fruit in primary because oxygen helps the yeast at first and you don't want the fruit getting dry on top so it's absolutely necessary and I stir or lightly agitate while fruit is there which is the first 10-14 days depending on when i take the fruit out which is usually when it starts slowing down at the end.