Saturday Night at the Meadery
A few weeks back @galenkp and I shared a small discussion on the gloriousness that is honey fermented mead. It really is an amazing drink, and more amazing to think that we as a people have devised a way to turn an insects regurgitated foodstuffs into an exquisite beverage with such a variety of flavours. Long live the honey bee.
Liquid Alchemy Beverages is not your Viking forefathers meadery. The wizards behind this factory of alchemy have found ways to do things with honey beyond using it as a sweetener or lubricant. These folks really, really know what they're doing.
The ambience and decor of the meadery itself is quite fun. The building is a converted garage located in an industrial area that now houses a sitting area in the front and the magic mead making in the back.
The decor is really eclectic and I like it. It more than matches the location and keeps the internal view quite interesting. More than once a newcomer will spend several minutes looking about that the various baubles and knick-knacks adorning the walls and tables.
I like that they use skeletons as decoration pieces. That does my heart proud.
As great as the decor is, however, I have yet to enter any form of watering hole to gaze at and appreciate the ambience. Bring on the booze!
Mead is some potent shit. You wouldn't realise just how much of a hit that simple honey can give until you've ingested it in liquid form.
On the Platter
Just as beer and wine have different colours, mead also comes in a variety of colours depending on the ingredients put into it. Unlike "traditional" beer and wine, mead can be flavoured from a variety of sources. Personally, I think that a good part of the enjoyment of mead stems from the presentation.
I started with a flight of four with the following names:
- Currant-Lee - 12.5%
- Red, White, and Blueberry - 6.75%
- First Flower 2022 - 6.75%
- Black-302 - 12.5%
After enjoying those four samplers I finished off with a full glass of Bee-Zap, which is distilled only once per year.
Not a one of these was bad. In fact, they were all superb, though my favourites were definitely the Current-Lee, Red, White, and Blueberry, and the Bee-Zap.
The Currant-Lee, the darkest in colour, was interestingly the lightest in taste and the most 'refreshing.' This is something I could see me drinking while sitting by a pool on a hot summer day. This particular mead had a heavy black-currant flavour and definitely sweetened the taste.
The Red, White, and Blueberry was also nice and refreshing. Very light and sweet from the flavouring of a number of different berries. It sources honey from New Jersey, but it's tasty enough that I can forgive it for that.
The last of the five meads of the night was a full glass of the Bee-Zap. Liquid Alchemy only produces this one once a year, and it did not disappoint. In addition to honey, the ingredients to add flavour include hibiscus, lemon, pineapple, ginger, and vanilla. It's quite an eclectic collection of ingredients, reminiscent of how they decorate their establishment, and it works. It was definitely worth waiting the year for this one.
If you ever find yourself in northern Delaware, hit me up and we'll go get a mead. You won't be disappointed.
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Thank you for this positive enhancement of my working day, albeit vicariously. I'll take it.
Legit looking place! When I'm in Delaware I'm definitely imposing upon you...I blame you, it was your idea. We'll mead-it-up together. Talk about epic.
Absolutely! It'll be on me, right down to the food truck parked outside and the cinnamon infused mead with whipped cream and ginger snap for dessert!
Seems like a totally legit plan. I'm in.
Very cool place, always love to see small scale business still alive in the USA. I don't drink anymore, but I can remember back in my Colorado days, an Ethiopian restaurant in Denver that served homemade mead wine, not sure how similar it is to viking preparations but definitely a drink of the ancients.
It's certainly not an incredibly popular drink, but it's always nice to come across a place that has it. My daughter introduced me to mead. She's also always hunting down local wineries when we roadtrip anywhere, too.