Accompanying the resurgent popularity of paganism, heathenry, vikings and craft beer-and-wine making is a newfound interest in mead. Mead is made from honey, can be produced as beer or wine, and is the traditional beverage of the Germanic-Norse gods. Apparently it's all they drink in Valhalla.
So while My Rare One and I were in Water Valley last weekend, we took the opportunity to go to Alberta's finest commercial maker and purveyor of mead -- the Fallentimber Meadery!
We enjoyed a lovely tasting of various types of mead while browsing around the sales centre. I came home with a bottle of traditional mead wine and a couple of small bottles of their latest product -- meadjito -- like a regular mojito but with mead instead of rum. It's carbonated, has a minty citrus taste, and will be very refreshing on a hot summer's night, we figure.
[All images from the internet except photos #4 and #6 by Debra She Who Seeks, May 2017]
looks like fun; I have never tasted mead.
ReplyDeletewhat a cool place!
ReplyDeleteNow that's a place I'd like to visit! Reminds me of the vineyards we visited in Germany. Way cool.
ReplyDeleteElsie Amata
Mead is one of those things I've always wanted to try but it's still not common around these parts. Enjoy your Godly drinks!
ReplyDeleteValhalla is basically one big smelly tavern filled with Viking drunkards
ReplyDeleteSuch a great idea for a new business! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI went to a honey farm once which had a big meadery (I think that's what they call it). Didn't care much for the drink though.
ReplyDeleteLove the name - Fallentimber. :o) And the Meadjito sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteI love the building. I've always had a fantasy about living in such a styled building as one big open space. I don't drink so I'll let you enjoy all the Mead.
ReplyDeleteI really need to get up there this weekend and get me some of that Meadjito stuff, not that I'm expecting any nice patio weather here anytime soon. It seems you brought the good weather with you last and took it with you when you left! Yesterday it was so windy a huge tree fell across the driveway when I came home from the store last night, and I had to park up near the road and walk in through a bloody monsoon. lol
ReplyDeleteMead! What a great way to spend a day! I love anything 'jito'...
ReplyDeleteYou know...I have never had mead. What a bad Pagan I am....
ReplyDeleteMust rectify ASAP.
"Beware the man, who drinks not." -Icelandic Proverb
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun, outdoorsy kind of place. Good for photography, too. I've never had mead but I'd be game to try!
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm, sounds like you had some fun. The place looks like a beer garten. Cool beans.
ReplyDeleteI thought mead was something mentioned in books that didn't exist anymore. Now I know better.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
I love a good mead. I am quite fortunate that one of the drinks shops in Newcastle stock Lindisfarne Mead, which distilled on Holy Island The same place the Vikings first raided. At Christmas, there is a Medieval market that stocks mead from all over the Uk and parts of Europe.
ReplyDeleteI love the word meadery. And I can't wait to use the phrase, "Do it like a Viking... with honey".
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely place Debra! I never ever heard of a meadery before!
ReplyDeleteI made a very basic mead a few years ago, it's a fun little project. It took ten minutes to put together, the hardest part was waiting almost two months for it to finish fermenting. It was nice, like a little desert wine grandma would sip after Christmas dinner. Google "Joe's Ancient Orange Mead" if you're interested.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like fun and sounds yummy.
ReplyDeleteI need to drink mead then.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame they did eventually turn the Norse gods away into the realm of myth. But then again, the Nordic countries are faster to throwing Christianity into it than America is.
ReplyDeleteHail Odin!
I don't think I've ever had mead. If you can pull me away from my Guinness I might try it.
ReplyDeleteThe meadjito sounds tasty.
ReplyDeleteI've never had it. Actually, I never drink. Unless you count hot chocolate with plant milk and the best 100 percent cocoa in the history of ever, as a drink. No good?
ReplyDeleteyum! we haven't been to the Renaissance Faire in a few years, but Mead is always my drink of choice there! praise be to Odin :)
ReplyDeleteWhen i first heard about mead, I thought it sounded horrible. A beverage made of honey? Fermented honey? Eeewww. But then a friend let me try some Ethiopian honey wine and it was pretty darn good. Now I want to try some mead.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a long while since I've tasted mead and seem to recall it being rather heavy???? But that meadjito sounds intriguing, very intriguing.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who owns a private liquor store. I will definitely tell him about this. Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun place..Never heard of Mead..Thanks for the intro..Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteI've had mead a couple of times..I'd start drinking again if I could get it regularly..want to know how to make it too.
ReplyDeleteI've never hear of a meadery or a meadjito. Sounds like it was a fun visit!
ReplyDeleteI don't believe I have every tried mead before. There is a place in our state that makes it and has tastings. I do love alcoholic tasting events!
ReplyDeleteelegant place .
ReplyDeleteyou must have great time there dear Debra
That sounds really interesting! I've often wondered what mead was/is!
ReplyDeleteI have never drank mead before! I think I must try it! What a beautiful area, where they make it! That must be your kitchen. I see a Goddess statue and a Spiral statue in the back!
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