Mead is a hyper-local craft beverage, a product of the flowers and bees in a specific region. The best way to try it is by visiting a meadery—search the 570+ locations in our meadery directory to find one near you.
Featured Meaderies
All Meaderies ☞Mead has incredible variety. It can drink like beer, like wine, or something different entirely. Every meadmaker has a unique process, sourcing, and style.
Apiary Ciderworks & Meadery
Black Rabbit Mead Co.
Heidrun Meadery
What is Mead?
Mead is an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water. It can be still or sparkling, sweet or dry, and sometimes includes spices, fruit, malt, or botanicals.
Have you tasted mead?
Explore by Region
View All Regions ☞Mead has been made all around the world for thousands of years, not just by vikings. Our goal is to bring attention where it's being made today:
View All RegionsFrom the Library
All articles ☞Guides on mead styles, honey varietals, and the craft of meadmaking — from what mead is to how it's made and where to find it.
Where Can I Taste Mead?
Meaderies, tasting rooms, and festivals worth seeking out.
Where Can I Buy Mead?
Local options, online retailers, and what to look for on the shelf.
Where Can I Buy Mead?
Local options, online retailers, and what to look for on the shelf.
What's the Right Way to Drink Mead?
Temperature, glassware, and the question of food pairing.
What is Honey Wine?
TLDR: Honey wine and mead are the same thing.
Which Bees Make Honey?
Not all bees can produce honey, and even fewer are kept commercially.
Recent Tasting Notes
After visiting a meadery, leave a tasting note like these folks have…
I am actually the owner of Fireside Meadery, and I can say I’ve tried all six of the meads we sell! some are special releases, so there are three flagship meads I’ll talk about below. My favourite has to be the Ember Metheglin, it has warm spice notes of cinnamon and cloves with a strong presence of orange and honey. It’s sweet being a dessert wine, but oh so delicious warmed up, room temp or ice cold. My wife likes our Monarch Melomel, which has all the same flavours of the Ember, but includes ripe blueberry instead of the orange note. I find it just as sweet, but lighter in flavour than the Ember, and that may be why my wife prefers it. Finally our Sunset Cyser is our best selling, easy drinking mead. It is on the drier side of meads with a little hint of sweetness. It boasts strong flavours of apple and warming honey, with a little hint of blueberry dryness/tartness at the end. Definitely one of our more dangerous meads because it goes down so easy. We ship country wide, so check out our socials or our website and place an order! You are always welcome to stop by our store and sit on the patio, too. Sláinte!
— Connor of Musquodoboit Harbour
for Heidrun MeaderyI love all the mead here! I usually get the tasting flight. It’s also a gorgeous space.
— Max of Inner richmond
for SideTrack MeadI had the delicious Hidromiel de Jamaica mead. Notes of cranberry and pomegranate with a nice sweet honey finish. The Jamaica tartness nicely balances out the sweetness.
— Alex of Sea Cliff