by Vicky Rowe | Sep 29, 2015 | Articles, Commercial Mead, Mead Making as a Business, Meadery Owners Speak, Meadery Stories, Starting a Meadery |
What I’ve learned in 2.5 months after opening my meadery.
We had around 125 visitors come in for a tour and tasting in October (our first full month of business). In November, we have had over 320 so far with still one more week to go. Final number for November projected to be over 375.
My plan for success was simply: make sure I offered something for everyone with a range of uniquely flavored meads of various sweetness levels. I also was a bit conservative with my starting lineup of meads as I knew that a majority of the people that would walk through my door would be mead “newbies”.
My starting lineup of five meads has proven to be the way to go at least in the starting up phase of Melovino. Wanted to make sure everyone saw what kind of range mead is capable of, that it is not all sweet just because it has honey, and to exemplify how different honey varietals can significantly impact what the final product of a mead will be, especially since most people think “honey is just honey”.
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 20, 2015 | Articles, GotMead Live |
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No guests tonight, just a bunch of meadmakers having a great time talking about mead and meadmaking. Vicky is out of town for vacation, so JD and AJ will be gathering a bunch of meadmakers and partying. The call lines are open, so come join the party!
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 15, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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Allan and Tysen are on the show again tonight, and with Vicky away, there’s a party going on! JD and AJ are exploring mead and mead making in an acapella episode, just rapping and sharing good mead.
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 10, 2015 | Commercial Mead |
by Alex Oxford – Product Marketing Manager, ShipCompliant Like most aspects of the beverage alcohol industry, wine delivery is complicated. Though the direct-to-consumer industry is strengthening, both economically and politically, there are many seemingly small...
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 9, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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Tonight’s guests are Ben and Becky Starr, owners of Starrlight Meadery in Pittsboro, NC. Ben and Becky turned a win for Best in Show at the International Mead Festival in 2006 with their Cyser into their full-time job, and just this past weekend celebrated their 5th year serving tasty beverages to mead lovers from all over. And that cyser that won Best in Show? One of their flagship meads. We’ll be talking all things mead.
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 1, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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This episode we will break from our usual approach, because GotMead Live is having a party!! Allen and Tysen, the Meadmkrs, will will with us, and we’ll be drinking mead and talking mead, and who knows what will happen, or who will call in?
by Vicky Rowe | Aug 25, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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Tonight on Gotmead Live we are chatting with Susan Ruud, owner of Prairie Rose Meadery in Fargo, ND. Susan has been in the homebrewing and meadmaking scene for a long time, and was involved with the AHA and GABF for years.
by Vicky Rowe | Aug 18, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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Tonight on Gotmead Live we are hanging out with Michael Fairbrother, owner of Moonlight Meadery in Londonderry, NH. Michael broke out in the meadery world as a commercial meadery just a few years ago, and his growth has been nothing short of amazing.
by Vicky Rowe | Aug 11, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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Tonight on GotMead Live we have David Myers, owner of Redstone Meadery in Boulder, CO. David is known as the ‘Chairman of the Mead’ and has been seen all over the United States, pouring his mead for appreciative mead lovers.
by Vicky Rowe | Aug 4, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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Tonight on Gotmead Live we are talking with Joe Mattioli, the creator of the most-shared mead recipe on the web, Joe’s Ancient Orange Mead. Joe will be telling us more about how he came up with the recipe, and why it works so well if you follow it to the letter.
by Vicky Rowe | Jul 28, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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We’ll be talking with Pamela Spence, author of “Mad About Mead” and founder of the very first organization of meadmakers, the American Meadmakers Association back in 1986. She’s hanging out in Ohio now, having a blast as a grandma, and she’s going to come on and tell us about how things were back in the first days of the breakout of mead into the public arena. [break]Join us and call in to ask him your questions!
by Vicky Rowe | Jul 16, 2015 | Mead Marketing |
From: ShipCompliant by Elizabeth Hansen – Program Manager Apr 30, 2015 Great news! The most widely used open-source website and eCommerce solution is now catering to a winery checkout process. New wineries have to make lots of decisions when choosing how they...
by Vicky Rowe | Jul 14, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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We’ll be talking with Sergio Moutela, owner of Melovino Meadery, in Vauxhall, NJ. Melovino is the first meadery in New Jersey, and Sergio has gone from opening to rapid growth in no time flat. He’s got some great meads, and some really good ideas on running a meadery (and we might pry some recipe ideas out of him!).
by Vicky Rowe | Jul 7, 2015 | Commercial Mead, Meadery Stories |
Politicians are finding mead!! This could prove to be interesting….(ed.) by Doug Ireland (direland@eagletribune.com) (from page 3 – read the entire story) After visiting Londonderry Freezer Warehouse, Pataki then warmed up across town at Moonlight Meadery....
by Vicky Rowe | Jul 7, 2015 | GotMead Live |
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We’ll be talking with Brad and Kerri Dalhofer, owners of B.Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, MI. Brad got his start on GotMead, and now he and Kerri have one of the largest independently owned meaderies in the U.S. We’ll be exploring when they discovered mead, and how they started their business, and where they get their ideas for some the unique meads they’ve created over the years. Join us and call in to ask them your questions!
