What is mead?
No Mono-culture required
Mead is alcohol made from honey. Mix
honey and water, add yeast and you
eventually get mead. It is a whole
spectrum of alcohol, so it can be light abv,
dry, and refreshing, or thick, sweet and
strong, bubbly or still and any where in
between with any number of additional
ingredients. It is very creative, it is very
versatile, it is timeless and we think it can
be good for the earth (you don't need a
mono-culture of barley or grapes to make
it, just bees on a healthy ecosystem).
Our Meads are Different. Lighter bodied,
honey forward but balanced, we make
most of our meads with ale yeast, a 1-to-4
California Honey to San Diego Spring
Water Ratio, and an element like oak or
lactobacillus to balance the finish. We
want our meads to drink like a refreshing
ale or invigorating sparkling wine, we want
them to spread mirth, and arouse people
to the beauty of life.
Mead doesn't need huge monocultures of single crops to be
produced on an industrial scale
(unlike beer, wine and cider). Mead
just needs bees pollinating healthy
ecosystems and beekeepers paying
attention. We hope that delightful,
authentic mead can build a market
for high quality, regenerative (think
beyond sustainable) honey.
We hope to build that market by
shifting the honey industry as we
get big enough the way Patagonia
Clothing shifted the cotton industry.
People will get to enjoy it knowing they're
supporting a craft that regenerates soil,
incentivizes biodiversity, creates good jobs and
builds the world they want to adventure in and
enjoy.
Put that in your tall-boy and pound it.
Golden Coast Mead
4089 Oceanside Blvd,
Ste H
Oceanside, CA 92056
Phone: 760-630-4468
Beekeepers who make amazing
honey on organic pasture using no
chemicals in their hives will get
premium prices for honey that will
make premium meads.
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