kcbrewmeister
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Is mead commercially available at the liquor store?
Unfortunately, there are very few commercial examples of mead (and its kin) available to us here in the Kansas City area. Redstone Meadery out of Colorado started distributing to Missouri in 2009 and Pirtle, out of Weston, makes a few fruit wines and meads. Chaucer mead is probably the most widely available, but it is not a good example of what mead can be and I recommend trying others before buying it.
It's available at most liquor stores in Colorado that I visit.
The only ones I've been able to find, besides the B Nektar ones are awful, sweet or dessert meads. Chaucer's comes to mind but I've bought 3 or 4 terrible syrupy meads before making my own. Not cheap either.
Have you tried White Winter Mead? White Winter Winery of Iron River Wisconsin. Makers of Fine Mead [Home]
They are at Woodmans. I like their Blueberry and Strawberry Mead.
I'm working on a bottle of Redstone Mead at the moment. It is quite good and they are so far the only commercial meadery that ships to Texas, so I'd imagine you could order it from just about anywhere.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Thanks much. I will definitely check it out. Weird I'd never seen them in the liquor stores. Oh well, guess I'll have to take a trip to the Woodman's liquor store...damn:rockin:
From my adventures that's the only location they distribute to in Madison. If you want to make a tiny trip. Come out to Black Earth. They have a liquor store called "Vintage Liquors" right next to BP on HWY 14. They one of their drinks called Kinky Blues https://www.whitewinterwinery.com/proddetail.asp?prod=Kinky-Blues It's not a mead but it's quite good. Blueberry beverage.
For everyone else that is outside of Wisconsin they can ship! Here are the states they ship to.
https://www.whitewinterwinery.com
White Winter Winery ships to the following states directly; WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS, IOWA, COLORADO, WASHINGTON AND MINNESOTA. NOTE, We collect sales taxes for WISCONSIN, 5.5% and ILLINOIS 6.25%.
We partner with Vinoshipper to ship legally to these states; ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, IDAHO, LOUISIANA, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEVADA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW MEXICO, NORTH DAKOTA, OHIO, OREGON, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON D.C., WEST VIRGINIA, AND WYOMING. You can place your order on our website or at Vinoshipper.com.
I actually saw on their website they do distribute to the liquor store that I always go to. I guess I wasn't looking hard enough.
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