Now the uk s craft mead scene is stepping up.
Craft mead.
While there is also a rise in producers making traditional meads melomels and metheglins the craft producers are bringing some unusual twists and eccentric creativity.
Craft mead mead is the oldest alcoholic beverage in human history.
Craft mead for us craft is an expression of place our meads result from an intimate connection to every part of the creative process from the gathering and growing of ingredients to the nurturing of the fermentation process to bottling corking and labeling learn about how we make our meads.
One of the world s oldest fermented beverages the blend of water honey malt and yeast recently has experienced a resurgence on the craft scene.
According to gosnell the drink is gender neutral gluten free and makes for an excellent spritz or cocktails.
We produce small batch meads seasonally and locally.
In this case it appears they are referring to the small batch hand made approach to their mead production.
Welcome to the rookery craft mead brewed in perthshire.
These craft meads represent a very modern revival of mead.
But our meads are anything but ancient.
The prolific scottish producer the rookery makes mead under the craft mead label as well but their offerings are higher than wine strength even.
Mead which dates to shakespearean times and beyond also knows a heritage all its own.