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Oldest meadery in US?

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Dragonslayer said:
Chaucer's Cellars in Santa Cruz, California was licensed in 1964. It has always been my understanding they were the first.
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If you're talking about a licensed winery producing only mead, The Meadery in New York was the first. Chaucer wines are produced by Bargetto Winery and includes varietal grape, fruit, and honey wines.

Mead has been commercially produced for quite a number of decades, well before Chaucer began producing mead but it seems to have been something made along with other fermented products. Roger Morse's 1953 Master's Thesis for Cornell University gives some background to this. Production of mead was being researched during Prohibition days, as a source for making vinegar.

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Dan McFeeley said:
If you're talking about a licensed winery producing only mead, The Meadery in New York was the first. Chaucer wines are produced by Bargetto Winery and includes varietal grape, fruit, and honey wines.

Mead has been commercially produced for quite a number of decades, well before Chaucer began producing mead but it seems to have been something made along with other fermented products. Roger Morse's 1953 Master's Thesis for Cornell University gives some background to this. Production of mead was being researched during Prohibition days, as a source for making vinegar.

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Can you expand on this? Does the NY meadery have a website? is Roger Morse's thesis available online. I can't have a commercial meadery and not have this information floating around in my head. ;D
 
They may be closed -- take a look here:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/meadery-the-greenwich

I don't think Roger Morse's thesis is available online. I ordered it via interlibrary loan from Cornell University a few years back, you might be able to do the same.

It was a fascinating read -- sure, a lot of outdated stuff, but gave you an idea of meadmaking up through the early decades prior to the 1950s.

You might want to take a look at an article I wrote on Roger Morse, available on GotMead.com:

http://www.gotmead.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=817&Itemid=487

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