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Thursday Fun Fact 9-12: 88 Million Miles

9/12/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 9-12 - To make one - just one - batch of Valkyrie's Choice, bees travel 88 million miles. - Groennfell Meadery

That's the equivalent of going to the moon and back about 195 times.

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Thursday Fun Fact 9-5: Martini

9/5/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 9-5 - Did you know that you can make a martini with craft mead instead of vermouth? The trick is to degas the mead before you use it, or else your cocktail shaker blows apart in your hands. - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-29: Icelandic Mead

8/29/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-28 - Although mead is a near constant element in Viking-era myths, the early compilers of the myths may have had almost no real life experience with the beverage since honey bees didn't show up in Iceland until 1930! - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-22: Is Mead...

8/22/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-22: Is Mead... - When Ricky the Meadmaker learned that the Google autocomplete for “is mead...” was “is mead sweet?” he was irritated. It turns out that he was only upset because Google doesn’t autocomplete his next query: “Is Ricky sweet?” - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-15: Vicky Rowe

8/15/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-15 - Did you know that the woman in the corner of GotMead.com is actually Vicky Rowe? She's the founder of the website, which is the single largest resource for mead making ever compiled. - Groennfell Meadery

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-8: Alewives

8/8/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-8 - Up until around 1200 CE, the vast majority of brewers in England were women known as Alewives. Then the term meant female bartender. Then it was a type of fish, which seems pretty unfair for such a cool word. - Groennfell Meadery

Thank you to our amazing summer intern and alewife, Hannah Tosi, for finding this fun fact!

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-1: National Mead Day

8/1/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 8-1 - Groennfell Meadery - What do Easter, Thanksgiving, and National Mead Day have in common? They all happen on a different date every year, but the day of the week stays the same! You know what else they have in common? Pretty much nothing.

We eat gratuitous amounts of meat on all three, but that’s merely by choice.

Join us this Saturday 8/3 for a Live Mead Demo (2-5 pm) and our Mead Day Festival (4-8 pm) to get an exclusive glimpse into our new digs and, of course, some great food and drink!

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