Wild Meads: Working With Nature

Raphael Lyon, founder and head mazer (meadmaker) of Enlightenment Wines Meadery in Bushwick will give a special class on wild meads, using natural methods, spontaneous fermentation, you can get a sense of what mead making has been historically like across thousands of years! Learn to work with the organisms around us and not against them! Discover the plenty of your region and develop a taste for working with herbs as preservatives.  This is an advanced class, some fermentation experience (beer, mead, wine or cider) is required.