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Alex Gonzales owner/head mead maker at Honey Pot Meadery (@honeypotmeadery) in Anaheim jumps onboard with the Fat Drunk And Happy team for an epic food podcast explaining the realm of mead making and how that works in the small business realm. Launched 3 years ago Honey Pot Meadery broke new ground as the only commercial mead making operation in Orange County and certainly blazed a trail for the craft on Southern California. Our food podcast team talks shop and tastes mead ranging from savory to sweet all the while chatting about the things that make us do what we do in food and beverage. Alex also explores culinary thought in brewing and the correlations between fermentation, beverage and food. Landing a spot on Anaheim’s La Palma beer trail, a six mile stretch of road with nine craft breweries, is an appropriate salute to their groundbreaking efforts.Also on this episode is Donald Lockhart, Chef De Cuisine for Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California. He is a friend a longtime collaborator with our own Amin Benny who worked with Chef Lockart for many years. We talk chef life, kitchen fails and flavor profiles all the while exploring in depth what it’s like to work in one of the Orange County scene’s most upscale resorts. Chef Donald and Alex Gonzalez have also collaborated for awhile with Chef helping him make mead at his location. They are also collaborating on a mead made with bacon fat. We also talk Chef Donald’s epic 49 layer lasagna and what Chef Lockhart called “the journey to the jacket”, a Chef’s road to becoming who they are in the kitchen.Here at Fat Drunk N Happy we always strive to bring you the best in the free podcast realm with our food podcast and podcast website dedicated to cooking, chefs story, mixology and what it’s like in the cut throat kitchen realm. Follow us here or via our apple podcast in iTunes to get the latest and greatest from our orange county ca podcast.