2-15-22 TJ Cline – Domras Cup and the Savannah Brewers League

GotMead Live Radio Show

2-15-22 Tonight we're hanging out with TJ Cline, past President of the Savannah Brewers League and Organizer of the Domras Cup Mead Competition, which was held two weekends ago. TJ describes himself as a 'novice mead maker', with 18 batches under his belt over the last six years. He says he's always learning, and his current favorite styles are braggots, bochets and black currant fruit meads. He has been involved with the Domras Cup for the last six years, and worked his way up, starting with steward, and progressing to judging and registrar. Along the way he also became Secretary and is now President of the Savannah Brewers League, and is now the Organizer for the competition. TJ managed to keep the Domras cup going through the pandemic (no easy task), and has learned a few things that he thinks are crucial to planning a successful regional competition. The Domras Cup just completed it's 24th year of competition, and and the 25th year will be on 2/1/23, making it one of the longest running competitions out there. The competition is named in honor of Chuck Domras, who was instrumental in bringing mead to the Savannah Brewers League and furthering the mead making craft. Join us as we talk mead, competing your mead, and the challenges of putting on a large mead competition. This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback.[break] [break]Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! Sponsor: Honnibrook Craft Meadery. Rated the very best winery in Colorado! Visit our state-of-the-art meadery and tasting room south of downtown Castle Rock, Colorado, in a converted man cave. Mention the Got Mead Podcast this month for a free draft taster! Google H-O-N-N-I Brook for hours and directions. They love visitors! www.honnibrook.com If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @GotmeadNow and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT Join us on live chat during the show Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. Upcoming Shows March 1 - Shawn Harris - Walkele Honey in Hawaii March 15 - Ian Rushing - Honey and Hops Brewworks Show links and notes Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events Feb 16 - Clear Skies Meadery, Gaithersburg, MD - Mind, Body and Mead Tasting Yoga Feb 16 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Mead Hall Trivia Feb 17 - Kinsale Mead, Ireland - Online Mead Tasting (get your kits ahead) Feb 19 - Windchaser Meadery, Williamsburg, VA - Meadmaker 101 Class Feb 19 - Temple Cellars, Singapore - Mead tasting with Gosnells (UK), Lone Bee (NZ) and Lion City (Singapore) Feb 19-20 - Texas Mead Works, Seguin, TX - Thorn Hill BBQ Feb 20 - Haley's Honey Mead, Fredricksburg, VA - Girl Scout Cookies and a Flight of Mead Feb 24 - Honeygirl Meadery, Durham, NC - Virtual Mead Tasting Feb 24-26 - European Mead Makers Association - Mead Madness Cup and EMMCon in Warszawa, Poland Feb 25 - American Mead Makers Association - Mead Matters Tasting with Prairie Rose Meadery Feb 26 - Texas Mead Association, La Grange, TX - Texas Mead Fest Feb 26 - Glass Jug Beer Lab, Durham, NC - Cider and Mead Tasting Feb 26 - Temple Cellars, Singapore - Gosnell's Mead Tasting Feb 26 - Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO - Live Music with John Jarrett Feb 26 - Batch Mead, Temecula, CA - Viking Night - Mead, Hard Cider, Dinner and a Viking Drinking Horn Feb 27 - Moonjoy Meadery, Lenoir, NC - Yoga and mead at Wolf Moon Salt Cave Feb 27 - Drinking Horn Meadery, Flagstaff, AZ - Mead and Painting Mini's