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Mead, drink of vikings, comes out of the Dark Ages(read full article here) By ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Mead, that drink of viking saga and medieval verse, is making a comeback. But this ain't your ancestors' honey wine. "It's not just for the Renaissance fair anymore," says Becky Starr, co-owner of Starrlight Mead, which recently opened in an old woven label mill in this little North Carolina town. In fact, this most ancient of alcoholic libations hasn't been this hot since Beowulf slew Grendel's dam and Geoffrey Chaucer fell in with the Canterbury pilgrims at the Tabard. In the past decade, the number of "meaderies" in the United States has tripled to around 150, says Vicky Rowe, owner of Gotmead.com, which describes itself as "the Internet's premier resource for everything to do with mead. "I literally get new notifications of meaderies at least every couple of weeks," says Rowe, who runs the website from her home in the woods north of Raleigh. "So they're just popping up all over. And a lot of those are wineries that |
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(Click below for full article and video) Mike Faul, founder and owner of Rabbit's Foot Meadery near San Francisco, is a former home mead maker and IT professional. He turned 'pro' years ago, and Rabbits Foot Meadery is one of the largest and most profitable meaderies in the U.S., possibly in the world. He is distributed in many states in t |
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Black Raspberry Mead - - One year old - Color: Rich, dark opaque ruby. The nose is redolent of a burgundy, with a strong berry note underlain with honey, a touch of oak and maybe a hint of chocolate. The flavor is excellent! Rich dark berries and honey together, no off flavors, and a long, tangy finish that keeps bringing back the berries |
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Blueberry Melomel - Sweet - One year old Color: Old sherry, rich red and brown tones, classic blueberry melomel colors. Nose has honey first, with a slight oxidation undertone running alongside the berry note. However, the oxidized note is much less noticeable in the taste, where a large berry flavor supported by strong honey notes buries |
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Strawberry Melomel - Sweet- One year old - Color: Dark golden straw, with a touch of pink. The nose shows a touch of oxidation, over delicate strawberry, with a honey note beneath. Upon tasting, the oxidation is again present, but has melded with the strawberry and honey to give an almost sherry-lik |
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 A New Local Winery Specializing in MeadCOLUMBUS, OH – November, 2008. A quiet buzz is making its way through central Ohio, where a new urban winery is producing a rare, specialty wine...mead... Five months ago Brothers Drake Fine Meads opened for business with a limited production of four select meads. While hearing talk of mead may evoke thoughts of Beowulf, the Vikings, and renaissance fairs, historical research shows that mead is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages known with multiple |
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Ancient beverage provides sweet window into man's history with fermentationSue Vorenberg | The New Mexican
9/9/2008 - 9/10/08 There's nothing like swigging back a mug full of mead, grabbing your ax, donning your furs and sailing off to pillage new lands. OK, OK, so this Viking dream probably wouldn't |
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Brewer Preaches Mead's Many Qualities in Quest for ConvertsFebruary 22, 2007 in the Anchorage Daily News
Down the Hatch [ With Dawnell Smith ]
Last Modified: March 9, 2007 at 12:38 AM
In a small hovel at the corner of a Midtown business hamlet, an elder home brewer and mead maker stirs up something ol
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SA honey beverages strike gold Claire Fulton 8 January 2007 A honey wine produced at Makana Meadery in Grahamstown banked gold at an international festival in Colorado and is set to turn the Eastern Cape into the largest honey-producing area in South Africa. Honey Sun African Mead - sweet mead infu |
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By Douglas Crowl
Loveland Connection You don't have to poll many people to stumble across a dream business idea. Maybe it's an art gallery, yoga studio, guitar store or coffee shop. “Just do it,” Adam Kittel said while standing beside a row of shiny new fermenters, large stainless steel po
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 Honey of a hobby spinning jobsFrom The Herald, PORT ELIZABETH Wednesday January 2, 2008 | Dr Garth Cambray, director of the Makana Meadery in Grahamstown, inspects some of the bees that produce the honey from which a whole list of products are made. Picture: Judy de Vega |
Shaanaaz de Jager THE Herald C |
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Mead Market: Long Island Meadery owner is clearly besotted"Oh, Thane of Suffolk, where can I find the noble meadery?" "Well, stranger of the pu |
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Wineries Fight State Shipping LawsBy JANET FRANKSTON LORIN – Associated Press RINGOES, N.J. (AP) — Unionville Vineyards plans to expand by planting more pinot noir and adding Rhone varieta |
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Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal - by Douglas E. CaldwellFriday, August 15, 2003 A man and his meadFormer software engineer finds his bliss producing wine made from honeyA longtime friend de
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From the winery: La hidromiel es una bebida alcohólica procedente de la fermentación de la MIEL; su tenor alcohólico (14º ) se obtiene en forma natural por la transformación de la miel en alcohol. Tenemos dos variedad |
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From the meadery: A sparkling champagne-style version of Mead and is Elbert Pirtle's favorite. Winner of numerous gold medals and third place for "Best of Show", Indiana International Competition, 1995 |
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Made from 94% honey and 6% raspberries. Gold and Silver medal winner.
Appearance: Brilliant red in appearance, evocative of liquid raspberries. This mead is gemlike in its clarity. Upon swirling the me |
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From the winery: Made from 92% blackberries and 8% honey. Gold and silver medal winner. Made from honey and blackberries, this is a great dessert wine; perfect to sip after dinner, or serve with your f |
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From the winery: Made in the style of the last harvest wines. Excellent before or after dinner and with your favorite fruit & cheese. Made from the finest honey available; it is a best seller in our tasting room at th |
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By Pamela Spence
(from the AMA Journal, Summer 1987) West Virginia, the state known as "almost heaven" comes a little closer to divinity through the efforts of Dr. Ferenc (Frank) Androczi. At his Little |
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Today in the Wine Shipping Wars...... Florida's state legislature is *still* waffling, while Floridians gnash their teeth in frustration, fingers at the ready to order their favorite wines. In Ohio, con |
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Commercial Mead 
