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Thursday Fun Fact 4-11: Tessellation

4/11/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-11 - Groennfell Meadery - Ever wonder why beehives are made up of hexagons? There are only three shapes that tessellate by themselves, and bees would have a terrible time squeezing into a triangle.

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-4: Miracle Honey

4/4/2019

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If you wanted one more reason to use True Source Honey, apparently this kind of stuff happens when you don't...

Thursday Fun Fact 4-4 - Groennfell Meadery - Apparently Leopard Miracle Honey was being doctored with Erectile Dysfunction Medication. One has to wonder why.

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-28: Last Days

3/28/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-28 - Groennfell Meadery - Friday and Saturday are the last days our Tasting Room will be open in Colchester, except for one last surprise in a few weeks!

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-21: Moonshine Meadery

3/21/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-21 - Groennfell Meadery - We're so excited to see that India's only meadery, Moonshine Meadery, has survived its first year in business! Whenever we get cocky, we remember that you're literally the only craft meadery in a country of 1.3 Billion People.

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-7: Shipwrecked

3/7/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-7 - Groennfell Meadery - Over the past few years, brewers in the US, Europe, and Australia have been recreating beers with yeast collected from shipwrecks. This seems like an awful lot of work.

We're not saying we wouldn't do it, just saying it's A LOT of work for something that usually amounts to a one-off experiment.

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-28: To Live By Mead Alone

2/28/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-28 - Groennfell Meadery - If you were trying to live on mead alone, a single bottle of sweet honey wine* would equal your entire 2,000 calorie allotment for the day. But you could drink 8 cans of craft mead!** Just food for thought.*** *750ml **Assuming average metabolism for ethanol ***We definitely don’t recommend doing either.

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-21: Grammy

2/21/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-21 - Groennfell Meadery - Our very first investor, Naomi Klein, passed away this week at 93-years-old. May her name be a blessing.

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-14: Greatest Achievement

2/14/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-14 - Groennfell Meadery - Exactly five years ago, we discovered a poster that remains the greatest find in the history of meadmaking.

Check out the full-sized poster here. And it could be yours for the low low price of $11.99!

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-7: Illicit Purposes

2/7/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-7 - Groennfell Meadery - The FBI refuses to maintain records on the number of gallons of mead used for illicit purposes every year. We thought that it might be a strange federal law along the lines of the Dickey Amendment, but actually it turns out that the FBI knows of “no such incidences to record.”

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Thursday Fun Fact 1-31: Medhu

1/31/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 1-31 - Groennfell Meadery - The word mead is originally derived from the Proto-Indo-European *médʰu which meant both

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