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ken_schramm said:
A quick update and and answer to a question: We are now into our building. We got the keys Thursday, and are doing basic clean up and wall prep so that the demo can happen smoothly. We will be applying for permits with the city Monday.

Our licensing applications are underway, and we're hoping for both State and Federal approvals in about 90 days.



Given that our first batch will be a quick finishing mead, we could have something to sell around May. They'll have to be sweeter, fruitier meads, but I can say they'll be tasty. Things like that Heather Mead will have to age a while before we release it.

We're going to need all the luck we can find. If you have any to spare, please don't hesitate to send it our way.

Yours,
Ken
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Well done thus far Mr S, saw the pics on facebook this morning. Looks like it should all be excellent once it's finished (hopefully more pics will be posted as you progress).

I'd be interested to read of any quick finishing recipes you use, as I do suspect it'll be a good while before you're set up for international sales......

Keep up with the updates

regards

John the Fatbloke.....
 
fatbloke said:
I'd be interested to read of any quick finishing recipes you use, as I do suspect it'll be a good while before you're set up for international sales......

Keep up with the updates

regards

John the Fatbloke.....
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John - I can follow up with a private message.

We're going to make international sales a priority. We're shooting for Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, France and Poland. Poland may be our first crack, since it seems like the market there might be the most welcoming, but I'd really value any input you have on that. Great Britain might be more straightforward. I understand they speak English there, too, but everyone has an accent. ;-)

For anyone who hasn't done the FB thing: I approved the demolition proposal. We're meeting with the project manager from our architect weekly, and a May open date looks like it still may be on track. Licensing is in process, and they keep asking me for "one more piece" of documentation (or flesh).

Ken
 
Chevette Girl said:
<grin> Everyone forgets about Canada ;D
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No we don't. It's just that you don't have to send stuff across the "grey and crinkley" to get it there. Just put it in a truck.......

Male (Marek) is right. I'd have thought that Poland (and IMO the UK) would be good too start with. Yet proper Polish style meads are very traditional aren't they. After all, it does appear that Poland is the only place that has government regulation about mead standards and the amount of honey in a recipe - so whether that might cause labelling issues to comply I don't know.

Yes, the UK might also be a handy place to start too due to the commonality of language (it's you lot on the western Pond shores that have the accents - we spoke it first.....invented it ;);D ). Yet the market is niche, so Kens kudos would help some and it might be better just to work out the shipping costs etc, for single, small amounts as that leaves any customs type nonsense up to the buyer.

I mean, obviously if it was something I could make, then I'd make it, but if the recipes are like the ones in Kens book, with ingredients harder to find outside the US, then those are the types I'd want to taste the most.....

Ha! we'll see what Mr S comes up with eh ?
 
Latest News:

We're in construction right now, the state and federal licenses are underway, we go for city council approval from the City of Ferndale on March 11th. We have made-in-the-USA logo wear in production, and a few bumper stickers that we'll be bringing to the Mazer Cup. Alyson is hard at work getting a credit card account established and we will be able to take orders by phone and fax until our eCommerce web site is up and running.

We've got recipes ready to go, and we'll be serving a few small plates to accompany the mead samples or meads ordered by the glass.

More shortly. This is all becoming a blur, but we will get there.

Ken
 
:) Why is it the only reasons I've considered actually getting a passport and leaving my country have been alcohol-related?
 
I thought you could cross the Canadian-US border without a passport?
That is disconcerting ;) If I lived close to the border I would make annual trips for cigars, it would still be illegal but I could atleast buy them!
 
It wasn't us that came up with the rule :p (I don't think, anyway)... your side won't let us visit without a passport, probably to do with 9/11... although I heard somewhere that they may accept an enhanced driver's license, if they ever get around to enhancing them...
 
I can confirm you need a passport now. :(

We're thinking of driving to WI this August and going through Ontario so we can visit Munro in London and B Nektar & Ken in Detroit. Coming back, however, we have to go through Ohio to avoid the border and the "you might need to pay customs duty on these bottles" fiasco. So yes, our entire route is dictated by mead and customs law. Ha!
 
kudapucat said:
I can't imagine a land border, where you get stopped in your car. Must be weird not being surrounded by water.
I recently drove for 5 days straight without a border or ocean.
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Let's not forget you have WILD COCKATIELS! I love my cockatiel. But I understand that they are actually kind of a pest around your parts? Eating farmers crops and what not. But damn they're cute while they're doing it.
 
Marshmallow Blue said:
Let's not forget you have WILD COCKATIELS! I love my cockatiel. But I understand that they are actually kind of a pest around your parts? Eating farmers crops and what not. But damn they're cute while they're doing it.
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We do, but the big sulphur created cockies and the black cockies are the most destructive.
We also have flocks of wild budgerigars.

Cockie = cockatoo, not cockatiel FYI.
 
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