new meadery: Ring of Fire (Alaska)

Fellow Alaskans and others interested in mead: there's a new meadery in Alaska! Ring of Fire Meadery opened up in Homer earlier this month. Article in the Anchorage Press about it here.

Haven't had a chance to sample it yet, sadly, but a roadtrip to Homer may be in order just for that. Apparently the owner's going to have mead on tap, which is somewhat unusual, isn't it?

Alaska is a pretty long trip for about 99% of us

Mead on tap is very unusual!

I can't even say I've heard of wine on tap either. I suppose you could tap a large keg of wine, but I've not personally seen one of those except in a winery and it was aging for bottling.

Then there's wine in a bag of course.

Caplan said:

Mead on tap is very unusual!

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Unless you homebrew...

If I'm not mistaken there was a restaurant in NY? that produced(procured?) their own kegs and took them to wineries to fill for less cost than bottling and had a wider selection of wine on hand at any given time for a better price and had a clear glass "cellar" that people could peer into and have wine on tap and are proud of it.

Damn, I wish I had a link. I remember seeing this on the Food Network tho...


Damn Food Network....


It DOES exist tho, know this...

Wine was on tap at a lot of the restaurants in Italy!

Keln said:

I can't even say I've heard of wine on tap either. I suppose you could tap a large keg of wine, but I've not personally seen one of those except in a winery and it was aging for bottling.

Then there's wine in a bag of course.

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Redstone Meadery in Boulder colorado makes a sparkling 8% black raspberry mead that is served on tap at a local brewhouse in CT. It doen't kick you in the teeth like most aged mead, but it's DAMN tasty Interesting side note, the owner of Redstone is a forum moderator at gotmead.com. She runs the forum on starting your own meadery.

mike

Keln said:

Alaska is a pretty long trip for about 99% of us

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ANYPLACE in Alaska is a long trip!! Except when the kings are running.....

That's good to hear about an Alaskan meadery... I was looking to pick up a few bottles of commercial mead but, I had my doubts if I would find any.

Through the link you posted, the writer said that Mead is illegal to produce up here without a license...

"What mama don't know..." and work to change it in the meantime.

There was an article about Ring of Fire in the paper this week, including a list of restaurants in Homer and Anchorage where you can get it. Apparently Oaken Keg has it, too, but I haven't been there in over a year so I'm not sure. Anyone tried it? I might have to go to Cafe Amsterdam to get a taste.

The writer of the articled f*cked up, though, because he (?) said that mead is wine because unlike beer, it's fermented. Yeah, 'cause only wine is fermented.

Haven't tried it personally, but my buddy in the Valley (Mat-Su) went there with his ex and was quite impressed. What's especially impressive is that my buddy is a bud light fan!?!?!?

IMHO, you might need six months of darkness to recover from a session of mead on tap.

Bl&#230 said:

Through the link you posted, the writer said that Mead is illegal to produce up here without a license...

"What mama don't know..." and work to change it in the meantime.

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Just add a tablespoon of rice solids to your 10 gallon batch of mead. Then it should be considered beer.

been in there a few times already all his stuff is pretty good

Someone said that he had a booth at the three barons / renaissance fair this year.