Pollen Angels at the 2014 UNB Homecoming

On September 27th, 2014, we attended the UNB Homecoming wine tasting event. The event consisted of patrons trading tickets for glasses of product from a handful of vendors, including (but not limited to) Sunset Heights Meadery, Red Rover Brewing Company, and Gillis of Belleisle Winery. At the event, we served: Queen’s Nectar (7.5% ABV, apples and honey) Denim (5% ABV, blueberry) Tart’n (5% ABV, cranberry) Naughtea (5% ABV, green iced tea) Shipwreck (5% ABV, dry-hopped) For this particular pouring, the crowd favourites were Shipwreck and Naughtea, with Tart’n also proving to be a tough act to follow. While the atmosphere was more intimate, different from that of past events and pourings, we still thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and introducing them to the wonderful world of mead! Our next event is the Fredericton Poutine Festival, and we can’t wait to meet a whole new crowd of...

Foraging at the Feast in the Field

On Sunday, Sept. 7th, we attended AbilityNB’s 14th annual Feast in the Field. We were armed with five of our flavours for general consumption, but it paid off to follow us on Facebook or via email, too! The five standard flavours we poured included: Queen’s Nectar (our base mead, made with apples and honey) Denim (refreshing blueberry) Tart’n (attention-grabbing cranberry) Naughtea (a green iced tea developed in-house) Shipwreck (our India Pale mead) The day was gorgeous and bright, if a little nippy in the beginning. While working at our booth, we had the pleasure of providing samples to countless people (often repeat visitors). We enjoyed seeing your positive reactions to our mead and greatly appreciated the feedback. In fact, some of our tasters even wrote out our name on the ballot for “best drink” (we weren’t listed on the ballot since we were only licensed to sell very shortly before the event). While serving, we were asked many questions, such as: Q: What is mead? The simple answer is that mead is a fermented beverage made from honey. To learn more about the history of mead, check out our Mead History page. To learn more about different types of mead, check out our blog post, “From Fruits to Grains: Types of Mead”. Q: What does mead taste like? We were asked this question a lot. Many people tried to draw comparisons between mead and other types of drinks, such as wine, beer, and cider. While mead may share some characteristics with each drink, it is something that stands firmly on its own. Wine is a fermented beverage made with fruits like...