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SUMMER MEAD SANGRIA

All the best of summer is blended together in this delicious drink recipe, fresh fruit, fireweed honey, and Solstice Metheglin mead.  Enjoy this with friends on your patio this summer!

A modern take on man’s oldest fermented beverage.  Cyser is Mead made with apples or Cider made with honey.  Sometimes the honey is fermented with the apple juice and other times a Cider is made and is back sweetened with honey.  Both beverages are referred to as Cyser but the taste of each is quite different.  When the honey is fermented in it shows more in a soft, perfumed finish that turns brandy like with ageing.  A back sweetened Cyser has more honey taste up front and a shorter, simpler finish. 

Did you know that each vintage of honey is unique?  Every year the bees can forage in exactly the same area and yet, depending on what the weather does, they will forage more or less on certain flowers.  The outcome of this determines the taste of the nectar that is ultimately turned into honey by the bees.  As a mead maker I find this fascinating.  

Before you mow your dandelions, consider how food options for pollinators are scarce in early spring.  Before May, when other flowers bloom, those sunny little flowers are a very important source of pollen for bees. Dandelion pollen is nutritious and the nectar is abundant - it gives bees a huge boost and adds to the health and wellbeing of the hive. read more

Pairing Tugwell Creek’s Meads Many people struggle with how to pair meads with foods. In our case, this is easy. Our meads are more wine like and ...