Mead In Kaua'i-Nani Moon Mead

[triarchy]

My wife and I were in Kaua'i a few months ago and ran across Nani Moon Mead. We met and talked to Stephanie for quite a long time and she gave us the full tour, including tastings of 4 meads. The only one we didnt get was the Laka's Nectar, made with Mountain Apple. We dont really care for Mt. Apple that much (it doesnt really have much taste to it). We liked the Pineapple/Guava, the Ginger Spice, and the Star Fruit/Lilikoi (passionfruit). The web site write up on the Ginger Spice kills me because it references those notoriously cold Hawaian nights ;D Having just suffered thru a Wisconsin winter, I laughed...and cried a bit too.

Stephanie was great and the mead was really good and definately had different flavor combinations than we were used to. They are all dry meads and the only thing I wished for was one medium mead to really show off the tropical fruit flavors. Maybe next time.

 

[Angelic Alchemist]

Thank you for sharing this. I left a piece of my heart in Hawaii years ago. Makes me homesick. I have a tattoo of a lilikoi blossom to remind me of those times.

 

[jkane]

I am SOO jealous! I am working on getting meads to taste at our World of Beer Festival in Menominee Falls in June. That meadery looked very interesting, but they don't ship to Wisconsin.

Did you bring some back? ;D

Where in Wisconsin? I'll be there by the end of the day! If you are near Milwaukee, I can be there by lunch time! 8)

 

[triarchy]

Hey jkane. Im up by Green Bay. We couldnt resist buying some, but my mead drinking friends and I have long since emptied those. If you really are interested in some of their mead, I might be able to work out a way to get them to ship to you (let me know). Id have to talk to Stephanie to remember what she told me about how to do it. I do remember asking her how I could get more, but after that it all goes blank. Nancy Reagan was probably right after all ;D

AA, I know what you mean. My wife and I havent been back to Kaua'i for 10 years (we used to live in Cali and it was our go to vacation spot). When we moved to WI, it was too hard to get there, or so we thought. But after being back on the island for a day, it all flooded back to us...just how much we loved that place. It dwarfs every other vacation spot we have been to. Cant wait to go back.

 

[jkane]

Do you enter meads in the Falling Down Fermentation in the fall? My wife and I go to that. One of our favorite contests. Not too big, and nothing but high gravity beverages with mostly meads! ;D