Purchasing mead

Is mead commercially available at the liquor store?

 

Its rare her in Canada, but I seen some, $25-30 per bottle though. Glad I have 15 gal of my own aging

 

Depends on where you live. If it is available it more than likely will be at a store with a good selection of craft beers, rather than a BMC type store.

But in Michigan, since we have a nationally ranked meadery B Nektar here in the Detroit area, finding thier products and other meads is pretty easy. I have one bottle shop that has several brands available.

If you can't find mead, decent wine shops may have Ethiopian Tej (honey wine) which is similar to mead. But has a bit more body if you ask me.

 

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.

 

Does the KC in your moniker mean you're in Kansas City?

I found this mention of meads in Present Magazine.

I forgot about Redstone.

 

It's available at most liquor stores in Colorado that I visit.

 

Yeah but you have Redstone Meadery right there in Boulder.


I haven't seen a commercial mead for sale here in CA in quite a long time. Probably 2 years.

 

I am From Kansas city but currently living in slc. I will check the liquor store later today...maybe there will be some since we are so close to Colorado. I am very curious what it tastes like and have given some thought to making a batch.

 

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:

 

I went on a tour of Redstone recently, great stuff, but unfortunately they do not ship to every state.Where to Buy :: Redstone Meadery

 

Texas Mead Works - Home ships to Texas addresses and they have good mead, give them a try.

 

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.

 

My local shop in Baltimore carries a few brands of mead. It carries a great deal of microbrews and imports, so it only makes sense that mead would be available as well.

 

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.

 

In Minnesota, we can buy Winehaven (WineHaven | Home) mead pretty much anywhere I've seen. Not sure what their out of state distribution is like, though.

 

Holy crap yeah it must be hidden. I just looked at that list too. I go to Steve's once in a while. Never see it there.

 

This is one reason why living in KY sucks. None of the "good" meaderies are allowed to ship here. Stupid dumb laws and ****.

 

I like redstone meadery but also if you like a dry meade Meadery of the Rockies is really tasty.
Meadery of the Rockies

 

Up here in Maine, there's a few places that sell Mead. There's a craft brew shop in Wells that has several, and a country store in Kittery that has Mane Meadmakers, and the NH Liquor Store has Chaucer's (but only Chaucers).

 

there is a huge selection here in portland. prolly about 40 bottles of different types at just one store i visit. hopefully there is something close by you!

 

Here in Sacramento we have Bevmo and they carry Chaucers. We also have Total Wine that came in just in the last year or two, and that place is like the holy grail of liquor stores. I would live there if I could. lol They carry 4 or 5 brands of mead, as well as some different melomels.

One thing I cannot find to save my life though is a bottle of bochet mead. I can't even find one online that I can ship. Guess I'll have to wait another year or two before I can dip into my batch.