And where did it come from? Just in time for National Mead Day, a "vibrant celebration" of the beverage held on the first Saturday of every August, read on to find out more about this curious beverage ...

Daniel Davies knows the cost of good honey, and the value of cooking with spice. The Michigan native recalls his family always having warm, spiced mulled wine on hand around the holidays, and for ...

MEADMAKERS: Lynn and Deondra Childers stand behind the bar at Juniper Tree Meadery. Credit: Stephanie Smittle For the uninitiated, mead is a drink made by fermenting honey. Hailed as humanity’s first ...

Blue Honey Country Wine and Meads Co., Ramona’s only meadery, is tucked away just off Vista Ramona Road. Christine and Kody Boger officially started selling the fruit wine and mead they made out of ...

Twin brothers Derek and Dominick Zirkle were teenagers when a beekeeper friend sparked their fascination with making mead — a beverage created from honey, water and yeast. “It’s the oldest alcoholic ...

Thought to be the world’s oldest fermented alcoholic drink, mead fell out of fashion in the 17th century, but now, more than ...

Years after opening his homebrew store, John Ronayne noticed a new type of conversation happening at the check-out counter. Along with heart-to-hearts about hops or grapes, talk would often turn to ...

ROUGEMONT, N.C. -- Desi never knew about the mead. Her owner, William Bailey, buried his beloved calico kitty, who died of kidney disease in 2000, with two bottles of his homemade, honey-based ...

EGG HARBOR - A locally made mead – perhaps the oldest known alcoholic beverage – with all local ingredients won a bronze medal in a recent prestigious international competition. Blood and Honey, by ...

A few years — and a few trips to Vancouver Island — later, McGee decided that since she couldn’t find any mead-makers here in Napa Valley’s wine country, she would become the first. Always a fan of ...

The recipe for mead may only call for water, yeast and honey, but John Kluge Jr. has added a few more ingredients to build a meadery that embodies sustainability and a sense of belonging.

SOMERVILLE – Something new is coming to Main Street's wide variety of food and drink establishments – a meadery. NJ Elixir has received borough Planning Board approval to open a meadery in the space ...