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Thursday Fun Fact 4-16: Tomato Honey

4/16/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-16 - While most fruits can produce the nectar for honey, there's no such thing as tomato honey. Although tomatoes can be insect pollinated, honeybees don't have the technique to get the pollen out! - Groennfell Meadery

Bumblebees have a trick called buzz pollination. It's super cool.

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-9: Charoset

4/9/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-9 - A lot of families make their charoset using traditional recipes with honey instead of modern refined sugar. (You guessed it, we make ours with honey, in case you were wondering.) - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-2: The Meadery Bunch

4/2/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 4-2 - Brewing mead by Zoom is difficult, but apparently not impossible. - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-19: Honey Trapping

3/19/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-19 - Honey Trapping is actually a common technique used in espionage. It is not, as someone recently told us, how bugs end up in amber. - Groennfell Meadery

That said, Ricky is working on a novel where two double agents during World War II get trapped in a resin and sold as a collectors item to a giant race of aliens in the year 3850.

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-12: Mead Hall is Open

3/12/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 3-12 - Our Mead Hall is open every Saturday from now on! No jokes or glib comments here: We are open for business, and we are really serious about both physical and emotional health. We believe people need to gather together whenever possible. Join the Feast and grab a pint with us, but also, please be good about washing your hands. - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-27: Leap Day

2/27/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-27 - If you want to do something on Saturday, February 29th, you'd better come to our Leap Day Ruckus, because there won't be another Saturday, February 29th for 28 years. - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-20: Soma

2/20/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-20 - Strangely, Wikipedia and other sources say that the earliest reference to mead is

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-13: Trees and Bees

2/13/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-13 - Tu Bishvat (the Jewish New Year of the Tree) and St. Haralambos's Day (the Patron Saint of Beekeepers) both happened on the same day earlier this week! This won't happen again for 19 years! - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-6: Climate Action

2/6/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 2-6 - One of the ways we support our Drink Your Values program is to let our staff stay on the clock during public events for causes they believe in. Our VP of sales was a keynote at a recent Climate Action Day, and we couldn't be prouder. - Groennfell Meadery

Learn more at drinkyourvalues.groennfell.com.

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Thursday Fun Fact 1-30: Drink Your Values

1/30/2020

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Thursday Fun Fact 1-30 - Tomorrow we’re announcing the single biggest project we’ve worked on since we launched the company. #DrinkYourValues - Groennfell Meadery

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