It’s the second year that the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science has hosted a conference on the art and science of mead-making, and the second year that it was filled to capacity with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once thought of as the “nectar of the gods” and a favorite of those hard living marauding Vikings circa 1000 A.D., mead dates even further back to China back in 2000 B.C. And now, this drink made of ...

In the spirit of engagement, for its One Book One Community read, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library has selected Max Miller's "Tasting History," a book that invites readers to do more than read by ...

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 ...

I have a problem. It's that I've been reading about Mead since I was a little kid and there's a picture I have in my mind of what it's like. Over the past year or two it's occurred to me that I can ...

Michael Fairbrother is one of the top mead makers in the world."I just make them like I love them, you know?" he said. "I always got into making mead to see the reaction on people's face, see their ...

MILTON-FREEWATER — While Blaqmead appears to be this area’s newest mead-producing concern, it’s been about 12 years in the making. And on March 8, folks in the region can get a taste of how that’s ...

Come back with me, if you will, to a simpler time. A time of Vikings on the high seas, journeying out to virgin lands to pillage and plunder anything they could fit on their Viking ships and take back ...