Redstone Meadery
What: Redstone Meadery – tour and
mead tasting
Where: Boulder
When: Monday - Friday: 1/2 hr tour 1 PM and 3 PM; tasting
room open Noon - 6:30 PM;
Saturday: tour 12:30 pm, tasting room open Noon - 5 PM;
Call for private appointment at other times.
Plus: Free live music 2 PM - 5 PM every Saturday from
November through April
Ah, Mead! The Nectar of the Gods, the original
fermented beverage, Honey Wine. If you’ve never tasted Mead, you’re
in for a treat when you visit this award-winning Meadery. Mead can
be simply a fermented honey wine, or it can be turned into a
champagne alternative with a little carbonation. Or, add fruit
(black raspberry, boysenberry, apricot, grape), herbs, spices
(vanilla, cinnamon), or other creative flavorings (juniper berry) to
produce variations on the original theme.
According to legend and our old English Lit 101
class, Mead was offered to the gods of mythology, it was consumed by
Beowulf, and Shakespeare’s character Falstaff enjoyed it regularly.
The term “honeymoon” originally referred to the tradition of
drinking honey wine for the first month of marriage to ensure the
birth of baby boys.
One story of the origin of Mead is that lightning
struck a tree with a cavity filled with honey and rain water.
Natural wild yeast in the tree was activated, and the honey
fermented. Some lucky soul then came to collect the honey, and had
an eye-opening experience. As Pete Seeger sang,
“We will pray just
like the Druids,
Drinking strange fermented fluids,
Go dancing naked
through the woods,
They're good enough for me.”
In
this small, but growing facility, enjoy a very personalized tour
where you can explore the entire process of creating Mead. The
friendly staff at the Redstone Meadery describe and demonstrate the
steps that turn honey, hot water, and yeast into a product that’s a
bit like wine, a bit like champagne, and a bit like beer. Their
bottling, labeling, and packaging process is mostly by hand; a sharp
contrast to the so-fast-it’s-a-blur processes you’ll see at large
beer breweries!
After the tour, enjoy tasting the wide variety of
Mead products produced here. Feel the love, as the folks here like
to say!
For more information, contact:
Redstone Meadery
4700 Pearl Street Unit 2-A
Boulder, CO 80301
720-406-1215
www.redstonemeadery.com
Additional directions:
Drive to Boulder, and take Foothills Parkway (County Road 157) to
the Pearl Parkway exit. Turn north on 47th Street, which is the
frontage road just to the east of Foothills Parkway. Drive one block
north on 47th, turn right on Pearl Street, and turn right
immediately to enter the parking lot for the building that houses
Redstone Meadery.
