Here in BC, the meadery laws are really stupid. They basically put mead under the same category of wine, which it is not. And you have to own your own apiary and harvest all of your own honey which you use in your mead (Were the lucky ones, in Ontario they have to have at least 100 bee hives to start a meadery!). This is somewhat understandable if the mead IS like wine, but what if it's a more beer/cider type mead with lower alcohol content? Shouldn't it then be under the same laws of beer and cider who can get all of there ingredients imported if they so like? Undoubtedly the politicians in this country don't recognize the difference between a beer like mead and a wine like mead. So does anyone else want to start a mead uprising??!! Well, what ever the case, I sure do.