The Honey and Pollination Center at the Robert Mondavi Institute, UC Davis, is in the planning stages of its first Mead Making Short Course. The event, to be held Thursday, February 6 – Saturday afternoon, February 8th, is the first of its kind in the country. Mead,...
In the wild lands of the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont, one beekeeper has created a honey-scented place in the spirits world. In 2008, Todd Hardie established Caledonia Spirits & Winery, producers of hand-crafted spirits including a vodka distilled from honey wine...
In medical circles, Dr. Godwin Meniru is a respected gynecologist and obstetrician. In wine circles, Meniru is an esteemed vintner with an international reputation for his honey wine, called mead. With Meniru’s most recent adventures, it looks like the regarded...
We’ve been telling Ken for years that he needs to open a meadery, if only so the rest of us will be able to get Heart of Darkness (what? You don’t know what that is? Dude, it is *phenomenal* mead!) outside of the Mazer Cup awards ceremony. And now...
From the Gilroy Dispatch…. If you’ve never been to a meadery, you only have to travel as far as San Martin to try the potent libation sometimes referred to as honey-wine. Alderin’s Meadery, a Lightheart Cellars brand, is the brainchild of Mead Master...