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You’re probably well aware of all the local breweries you could hit up to find craft beer in Charlotte. And maybe you could even rattle off some of the cideries or vineyards in the area. But chances ...

Old habits die hard, and mead is one of the oldest. There’s no clear consensus on where this most ancient of fermented beverages originated. The Chinese and Egyptians both drank it thousands of years ...

FARGO – After watching the craft beverage trend continue to grow in recent years, a Horace couple have decided to turn their own home-brewing hobby into a business. Susan and Bob Ruud recently opened ...

Mead may be most frequently associated with Renaissance fairs and singing Vikings swinging goblets, but frankly, it can be quite sophisticated. Even though the fermented honey wine is one of the world ...

You might have sipped on beer or wine, but what about mead? Two men from Ypsilanti are on a mission to bring mead into more homes. Traditional mead is made with honey, water and yeast. The yeast eats ...

Put a glass of white wine to your nose, and, with the right winemaker and the right grapes, floral notes rise up. With a glass of mead, it is as if you were holding the flowers themselves. “One bottle ...

Honey won out over barley for one Colorado brewer. When Adam Thompson started making beer and mead in 2006, mead quickly became his preferred beverage to brew. “I started realizing how wide open mead ...

Saturday is National Mead Day, a holiday celebrating the nectar of the gods and the mortals who make it. If you haven’t tried mead before – or if you’ve only seen it at a Renaissance festival – ...

Two brothers have opened Wandering Sun Mead Hall in Winston-Salem, offering a variety of handcrafted meads that they make in Madison. Trevor and Drue Ogle co-own Wandering Sun Meadery along with ...