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Man, I would actually go out with my sisters when they ask me if I could find a place that has mead on tap...why are you in Pennsylvania and not Missouri!

No, really, awesome article and congrats! Maybe your success will INSPIRE someone to do this around KC...one can only hope!
 
Soyala_Amaya said:
Man, I would actually go out with my sisters when they ask me if I could find a place that has mead on tap...why are you in Pennsylvania and not Missouri!

No, really, awesome article and congrats! Maybe your success will INSPIRE someone to do this around KC...one can only hope!
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Thanks. It's a lot of work not only making the mead, but tending to it, meeting with people, driving bottles around, etc, etc, etc. All in all its awesome! :)

We need more mead! 60% of the people I meet and talk with have never even heard or mead before and 10% more have only heard of it from Harry Potter Of Beowulf!
 
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Congrats, brother!:headbang: Awesome article. I decided to go commercial over a year ago. It has been a long road building a basement winery (where have I heard that before) that meets city and state code. Finally completed that a few weeks ago. Next week I go back to the city for my city business license. Once that is done the rest should be easy (yea, right! :eek:). Livin' the dream!
 
Congrats! I read this article awhile ago was very impressed, then sent you an e-mail last month about it but haven't heard back from you. I had some questions on kegging and distributing mead in PA.
 
pariahvineyards said:
Congrats! I read this article awhile ago was very impressed, then sent you an e-mail last month about it but haven't heard back from you. I had some questions on kegging and distributing mead in PA.
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I'm so sorry, I do remember the email, just have been so busy with everything. I'll dig it up and respond to you via email!

Our biggest issue now is a lack of tasting room, but we're working on that. Hopefully this spring (if not sooner) we'll have an actual storefront. Once we do that, I'm sure I wont have any time for anything!
 
I was able to sample some of Laurel Highland's fine products recently.

I met up with a friend at Piper's pub in Pittsburgh. I had a few glasses of the bochet (more han I'm willing to admit on the forum) and a glass of the traditonal. I brought along a growler, hoping that I could convince the bartender of a doing a growler fill while I was there. He called the owner, and was hesitant to fill me up.

I took a picture with my cell phone of the bochet, but the low lighting of the bar made the picture turn out too blurry, and isn't worth posting up here.

Overall, great product :-) Glad to see your success, cheers!
 
mfalenski said:
I'm so sorry, I do remember the email, just have been so busy with everything. I'll dig it up and respond to you via email!

Our biggest issue now is a lack of tasting room, but we're working on that. Hopefully this spring (if not sooner) we'll have an actual storefront. Once we do that, I'm sure I wont have any time for anything!
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Great thanks. I was just making sure you got it. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing your growth as a meadery in Pa.
 
Dragonslayer said:
Congrats, brother!:headbang: Awesome article. I decided to go commercial over a year ago. It has been a long road building a basement winery (where have I heard that before) that meets city and state code. Finally completed that a few weeks ago. Next week I go back to the city for my city business license. Once that is done the rest should be easy (yea, right! :eek:). Livin' the dream!
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man I wish it was easy and clear how to get the licensing done. All I want to do is sell a few bottles of mead out of my garage like we do with the honey. I have no intention of shipping anything.
 
robin850 said:
man I wish it was easy and clear how to get the licensing done. All I want to do is sell a few bottles of mead out of my garage like we do with the honey. I have no intention of shipping anything.
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A few bottles or a few thousand. Gotta have that license. I have been talking with some other folks like us about introducing some legislation to allow Nanowineries (produce less than 500 gallons per year) the ability to sell with a limited fast track license. :)
 
robin850 said:
man I wish it was easy and clear how to get the licensing done. All I want to do is sell a few bottles of mead out of my garage like we do with the honey. I have no intention of shipping anything.
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I'm a believer in a "gifting" based economy...you could always "give away" some mead to anybody who wants to "give" you some other necessity...
 
Dragonslayer said:
A few bottles or a few thousand. Gotta have that license. I have been talking with some other folks like us about introducing some legislation to allow Nanowineries (produce less than 500 gallons per year) the ability to sell with a limited fast track license. :)
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that sounds perfect. Count me as a supporter!
 
Dragonslayer said:
A few bottles or a few thousand. Gotta have that license. I have been talking with some other folks like us about introducing some legislation to allow Nanowineries (produce less than 500 gallons per year) the ability to sell with a limited fast track license. :)
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Not to shove a stick in your spokes, but the problem I see with that is it's like the food industry - large or small-scale, if you do it wrong, someone could become ill, so on the government side, it's the same amount of paperwork to regulate it, it wouldn't be worth it to them to discount or fast-track.

Granted, you have to go VERY wrong to get someone sick on homemade wine, but I do recall a friend of mine judging a competition at a medieval group event and he refused to taste two entries: he could SMELL the pesticides in one lady's dandelion wine because she picked where someone had sprayed, and someone else ACTUALLY used the piece of raw chicken as per the ancient recipe...

Point being, taxes aside, it's still got to be regulated the same as a larger-scale operation, which is why fast-tracking it may not be feasible. The gov't would still end up blamed if something happened, so they can't afford the liability of not checking out the small operations as effectively as they check out the big ones.
 
Dragonslayer said:
Congrats, brother!:headbang: Awesome article. I decided to go commercial over a year ago. It has been a long road building a basement winery (where have I heard that before) that meets city and state code. Finally completed that a few weeks ago. Next week I go back to the city for my city business license. Once that is done the rest should be easy (yea, right! :eek:). Livin' the dream!
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Hey Drangonslayer:

  • It's a long way if you want to rock'nroll:headbang:, and
  • remember It is always harder than it looks ... Always

I know, o yes how I know.

Good luck!
 
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