The workshop concept is still being fleshed out.
I intend to have a wide range of mead types available, including:
- most of the quart-size types from the videos page,
- gallon batches of the same ones but done with modern equipment, and
- gallon batches of mead types using things not available at grocery stores.
Each student will receive a full set of sanitized equipment and ingredients (and a lecture describing this type of mead), mix up the must, pitch the yeast, and generally make it all ready to start fermenting.
Pricing is uncertain at this time, as it would depend on mead type, batch size, number of attendees, and what deals I can find on equipment, ingredients, and a place to do it. So if you can host it, get a big group together, and/or supply equipment and/or ingredients, that will lower the price! At a wild guesstimate, it will probably be on the order of $30 a head for the quarts, and somewhere around double to triple that for the gallon batches, all-inclusive, for a dozen students, making some unreliable assumptions.
The “service area” I intend is roughly within an hour’s drive of Fairfax, Virginia. I am willing to travel further to do this, for expenses and extra fees, and maybe even do it remotely.