In the spirit of engagement, for its One Book One Community read, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library has selected Max Miller's "Tasting History," a book that invites readers to do more than read by ...

Years after opening his homebrew store, John Ronayne noticed a new type of conversation happening at the check-out counter. Along with heart-to-hearts about hops or grapes, talk would often turn to ...

Twin brothers Derek and Dominick Zirkle were teenagers when a beekeeper friend sparked their fascination with making mead — a beverage created from honey, water and yeast. “It’s the oldest alcoholic ...

It’s the second year that the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science has hosted a conference on the art and science of mead-making, and the second year that it was filled to capacity with ...

On an early summer morning, amidst the heavy buzz of energetic honeybees, Jason Davis opened one of his hives and pulled out a frame. It was dense with bees and more crawled in and out of the ...

One batch of Hiveworks’ mead calls for over 700 pounds of honey. That requires a lot of busy bees, including company co-founders Sean Duckworth, Alex Mendoza and Julian Frank, who recently launched ...

Michael Fairbrother is one of the top mead makers in the world."I just make them like I love them, you know?" he said. "I always got into making mead to see the reaction on people's face, see their ...

MILTON-FREEWATER — While Blaqmead appears to be this area’s newest mead-producing concern, it’s been about 12 years in the making. And on March 8, folks in the region can get a taste of how that’s ...

FARGO – After watching the craft beverage trend continue to grow in recent years, a Horace couple have decided to turn their own home-brewing hobby into a business. Susan and Bob Ruud recently opened ...

ROUGEMONT, N.C. -- Desi never knew about the mead. Her owner, William Bailey, buried his beloved calico kitty, who died of kidney disease in 2000, with two bottles of his homemade, honey-based ...

I have a problem. It's that I've been reading about Mead since I was a little kid and there's a picture I have in my mind of what it's like. Over the past year or two it's occurred to me that I can ...