Category: Mead
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Dreaded Mead review: Blueberry, Spiced Chai
Dreaded Mead is a Lancashire-based meadery which focuses on honest ingredients and simple but mighty flavour. They offer a diverse range of flavours, alongside some spectacularly tempting seasonal bottles (their…
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Stone Circle Mead review: Fig, Spiced, Elderflower, Gorseflower Meads
FIG MEAD – 5/5 Wow. Just wow. This accompanied our Christmas Eve cheeseboard, and it was a delight. The fig flavour is so beautifully balanced against the sweetness of the…
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Stone Circle Mead: Dandelion Mead review
Over the next month or so we’ll be drinking our way through some of the wonderfully traditional Welsh meads on offer from Stone Circle Mead; a Wrexham-based business that focus…
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Lancashire Mead Company: Heimdall’s Mead review
Chilli & lime mead. That’s what we’re looking at today – our penultimate bottle of Lancashire Mead Company‘s extraordinarily distinctive mead, and it’s a bit of a twist on what…
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Meads of the Year: 2024
With 2024 almost behind us and the specter of Yule/Christmas already looming large on the horizon, it seemed like the ideal time to recap the very best meads I’ve reviewed…
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Nidhoggr Mead Co: Raspberry & Lemon Mead review
I recently covered Nidhoggr Mead Co‘s Ginger Mead, easily the most autumnal, warming meads in their impressive selection. Naturally, I thought it best to follow that up with what is…
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Nidhoggr Mead Co: Ginger Mead review
It’s a beautiful time of year to be a mead lover. For me, the nectar of the gods is inseparable from those moody autumn mornings and cosy dark nights, despite…
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Nidhoggr Mead Co: Traditional Mead review
At some point in our long history, one ancient hunter-gatherer or another happened upon the sacred trinity of honey, water and wild yeast. Was it an upturned beehive full of…
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Nidhoggr Mead Co: Blueberry & Blackcurrant Mead review
A good bottle of mead can be the soul of any moment, be it a roaring, lively festival or quiet evening at home with good food and company. There’s enchantment…
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Lancashire Mead Company: Thrúd’s Mead review
Lancashire Mead Company continue their venerable tradition of honouring ancient mythologies with Thrúd’s Mead, a dedication to the daughter of Thor. I’ve already covered Thor’s Mead, a literally intoxicating fusion…