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Mark Simakaski demonstrates how he makes a new batch of mead at Artesano Mead.

Upon walking through Artesano's door, all of your senses are sparked  with curiosity. Your nose smells what it would as if in a bakery, you  hear the churning of the liquids inside the distant fermenting tanks,  you look around as you have just entered into a quaint shop.

Artesano is located on 1334 Scott Highway in Groton, VT. Artesano prides  itself in producing mead from locally gathered honey and fruits.

Mead is and alcoholic wine made fermented water and honey.

Mead is referenced in numerous mythological stories. Mead is mentioned  in literary works such as: the Rigveda (meaning "Praise Knowledge" The  Rigveda is a collection of sacred ancient Indian hymns, compiled into  ten books and is also a part of Indian mythology dated between 1700–1100  BC (1) and Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon heroic epic poem dated between 8th and the early 11th century. (2)

On Artesano's website there is an interesting paragraph explain the ancestry relation of mead. It reads:

Check out their website for more interesting secrets of mead and all it's flavors: http://www.artesanomead.com/

Speaking of flavors, can you honestly find another brewing company that  would ever consider mixing chilli and cinnamon flavors into an alcoholic  beverage? That is the power of Artesano's Chili-Cinnamon flavored mead.

This flavor is available for you to offer at your wedding, and especially while on your honeymoon.

No pun intended.

Speaking of honeymoon's, on Artesano's there is this interesting factoid about the tradition of the term "honeymoon:"

I will start writing my personal opinion bit, by first saying this... it  was not on this shoot that I have tried Artesano's mead. I sampled  their mead prior to this shoot, at the beginning of this year.

I have tried the traditional mead and their blueberry mead, and both are  very tasty, and warm the soul very fast. But what I figured out is that  you can't really think of it as drinking wine.

You just have to think about that you are just having mead. It is not  really wine. It acts and smells like wine, but the taste is mead.

Try Artesano mead for yourself, and tell me what you think!


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(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf

(3) http://www.artesanomead.com/about-mead/

(4) http://www.artesanomead.com/honeymoon/