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Hello, I am doing research for my schoolwork over a company that we have created. We have created a mead making company. I would like to know some tastes and preferences that all of you may have about mead. If anyone could answer these questions for me or give me any more information about tastes and preferences, please let me know. P.S.- Although this is a school project, the company is really starting up business.

Do you like it still, carbonated, sparkling?
Dry, semi-sweet, or sweet?
What flavors do you enjoy most?
What type of mead do you enjoy most?
What price range would you be willing to pay?
Do you currently buy any specific meads, if so then what or who?



Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
 
Still, usually dry or semi-sweet, and typically my own, though rarely. Have bought but don't buy anymore Redstone, rabbits foot, san fran mead co etc. Seems like you really have to be in to a niche market in order to be commercially viable in a landscape with some many options. Chaucers is gross Gross GROSS IMO, but I have a strong dislike of sweet wines. Are you attempting some market research?
 
I like still and carbonated/sparkling.
I perfer semi-sweet to sweet, I do not enjoy very dry wines or meads.
I like floral, fruity and/or spicy flavours, but highlighting any good honey is also great.
My favourite meads are my blackberry variation on Joe's Ancient Orange (especially the one that's been oaked) and my Maple Mead.
$20 CDN per bottle is my usual price range for something nice, if I were buying, which I generally wouldn't unless it was something really special I couldn't make myself. I have been known to pay $30-40 for a really good bottle of fruit wine when it's something I can't make myself.
I have enjoyed Moniack Mead in the past (although I'm not sure I've had it since they changed their recipe) and Munro's Meads more recently. I don't generally buy meads because I have a couple hundred bottles of meads and wines in storage that I haven't drunk yet, but if I found Orange Blossom Mead or some other interesting varietal I can't get easily, I might.

Good luck with the project and the business!
 
An interesting project no doubt, but I guess I am curious about your rationale for asking amateur mead makers across the world their preferences when presumably the company you are "creating" will be selling to folk who don' t make their own wines and meads and who presumably live fairly locally (or else might be expected to visit the area because it is a tourist destination..).. Strikes me that the sample you are using (us) is more what is called a "convenient" one and not one that has any likely tested validation (That is a question not a statement - and is being asked not by someone in marketing but by a social scientist)... In other words, why would mead makers who are active on a forum for mead making be more likely to provide you with answers that would be "typical" of the typical population that you see buying from the business you are creating? ... and why would you not a) seek answers to your questions anonymously and b) why would you not show that you fully understood the ethical issues that are inherent in making use of what are known as human subjects?
 
My favourite meads are my blackberry variation on Joe's Ancient Orange (especially the one that's been oaked) and my Maple Mead.

I have 2 gallons of Vermont Maple left over from a different batch. Would you care to share your log on your Maple Mead please
 
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