Mead Lover’s Digest #1633 Wed 29 May 2013
Mead Lover's Digest #1633 Wed 29 May 2013 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: Haze and Precipitates (Henry Murray) Vintner's Harvest Fruit (Rich) NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the...Mead Lover’s Digest #1632 Fri 24 May 2013
Mead Lover's Digest #1632 Fri 24 May 2013 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: Palinka (dan@geer.org) NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to mead@talisman.com. Use...
Caledonia Spirits and Winery – Making the Honey Work!
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...
Dr. Meniru gaining a reputation as Dr. Drink
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...Mead Lover’s Digest #1631 Fri 26 April 2013
Mead Lover's Digest #1631 Fri 26 April 2013 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1630, 23 April 2013 ("Shaggyman") Re: Filtering/Fining a melomel (Phil) Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1630, 23 April 2013 () RE:...Mead Lover’s Digest #1630 Tue 23 April 2013
Mead Lover's Digest #1630 Tue 23 April 2013 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: Filtering/Fining a melomel? (Caroline Taymor) Lalvin D-47 wine yeast: (Henry Murray) NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY...Mead Lover’s Digest #1629 Thu 28 March 2013
Mead Lover's Digest #1629 Thu 28 March 2013 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: Mazer Cup International Competition Results ("Vicky Rowe") Fermaid (Martin Pare) Corking questions from a novice (Gigi Flynn) NOTE: Digest appears whenever...Mead and cider make a comeback in Maryland
by Richard Gorelick, The Baltimore Sun Make room for cider and mead. In Maryland, cider was last popular in Colonial times. Mead never has been. But a new generation of mead and cider makers, with their feet planted firmly in Maryland soil, are rethinking these...
Schramm’s Mead – the debut approaches!!
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 he’s going pro (at least officially – he’s always been a pro to us!). So those of you in the Detwa area and surrounding Michigan towns will soon have not one, but 2 meaderies in Ferndale to get mead. I only hope that I’ll be able to sweet-talk Ken into saving me a bottle or 2 so I can hopefully get up to Michigan this summer to visit family and swing through to visit and pick up some mead before it sells out.
What’s All This About Mead?
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 Noah James, who is quick to converse on mead making, its storied history and its resurgence in popularity.
When you hear the word “mead,” it may conjure up images of the fictional half-giant Hagrid enjoying mulled mead at the Three Broomsticks pub of “Harry Potter” fame. Or the legend of Beowulf, in which King Hrothgar’s mead hall was attacked by the man-eating demon Grendel. Or the fabled Camelot, where King Arthur’s knights drank mead in celebration of their victories.
