{"id":2099,"date":"2011-06-13T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2011-06-13T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:00:17","slug":"mead-lovers-digest-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/mead-lovers-digest-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Mead Lover&#8217;s Digest Shutting Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those that don&#8217;t know, the <a title=\"Mead Lover's Digest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talisman.com\/mead\/index.html#MLD\">Digest<\/a> has been a great source of mead making information. I&#8217;ve read it for years, and I&#8217;d hate to see it go. Still, Dick Dunn, &#8220;the Digest janitor&#8221; as he likes to call himself, makes a good point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it&#8217;s wrong to hold out the MLD as a potential resource for new meadmakers, and then not deliver the goods. There are 12 new subscribers just since the last digest, who&#8217;ve seen absolutely nothing. \u00a0And the digest content has been falling year-on-year since 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dick&#8217;s announcement triggered an outpouring of support, and he agreed to keep it going for now. The only question now is, will we get meaningful traffic. I don&#8217;t know how (or when or if) this story will end, but I just want to say thank you Dick for providing a great resource!<\/p>\n<h2>Also of interest to mead makers<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Got Mead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gotmead.com\/\">Got Mead<\/a> is the largest mead making forum I know of.<\/p>\n<p>If you could only buy one book on mead making, it would have to be Ken Schramm&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0937381802\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washinwinema-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0937381802\">The Compleat Meadmaker<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0937381802&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>My own <a title=\"A Simple Mead Recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/a-simple-mead\/\">Simple Mead Recipe<\/a> is a great way to get started making mead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mead Lover&#8217;s Digest shutting down? Say it ain&#8217;t so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-blogs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}