{"id":29197,"date":"2020-09-29T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?p=29197"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:55:48","slug":"mead-the-blom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/mead-the-blom\/","title":{"rendered":"Mead the Bl\u00f8m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allergic to gluten?!! What\u2019s a brewer to do? Make mead and cider, decided Lauren Bloom \u201907 and her partner, Matt Ritchey. They pulled up stakes from their successful, Chicago-based brewery and headed east (to Ann Arbor) to open Bl\u00f8m, a cidery and session meadery. Lauren shares their fascinating mead-making story in this virtual tour. Meads (technically, honey wines) are a diverse lot, more so given the creative fermentations of Matt and Lauren. Their meads might feature hops, rhubarb, ginger, currant, even sumac\u2014all Michigan-sourced, as are the fundamentals of mead and cider\u2014honey and apples, respectively. Yeast makes mead from honey, so a good mead means keeping yeast happy, a task that can take a macabre and cannibalistic turn. Lauren will explain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title='video' class='embed-responsive-item' title=\"KTalks: Meadworks\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/476283542?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" \"640\" \"360\" \"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/elux.kzoo.edu\/2020-winter\/michigan-brew\/?fbclid=IwAR00CbK5fwkQ-yrFlblHZCj144OMG8kBDtAd5KE50za6kA6Vy61B7QHUos8#threeblondes\">\u201cIf You Seek a Pleasant Michigan Brew, Look About You\u201d by Jeff Palmer \u201976, <em>LuxEsto<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nWatch<strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkblom.com\/pbs\">PBS Tastemakers featuring\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkblom.com\/pbs\">Bl\u00f8m Meadworks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allergic to gluten?!! What\u2019s a brewer to do? Make mead and cider, decided Lauren Bloom \u201907 and her partner, Matt Ritchey. They pulled up stakes from their successful, Chicago-based brewery and headed east (to Ann Arbor) to open Bl\u00f8m, a cidery and session meadery. Lauren shares their fascinating mead-making story in this virtual tour. 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