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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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Thursday Fun Fact 7-25: Irish Wine

7/25/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-25 - Groennfell Meadery - According to Celtic Tours World Vacations,

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-18: Vigorous

7/18/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-18 - Groennfell Meadery - We tried a new, innovative way of recirculating our mead! It went... OK.

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-11: The Dakotas

7/11/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-11 - Groennfell Meadery - According to the USDA, the Dakotas combined produce over A THIRD of the honey in the US!

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-4: George Washington

7/4/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 7-4 - Groennfell Meadery - George Washington is known to have kept bees, loved honey, and brewed extensively. Does that mean he made mead??? No. Probably not. But that would have made a great Fun Fact, right?

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-27: Fermentable

6/27/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-27 - Groennfell Meadery - Honey is 95% fermentable sugars. What's the other 5%? Mostly dextrins and random stuff from flowers!

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-20: Valkyrie's For Export

6/20/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-20 - Groennfell Meadery - We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new take on our Classic Mead! Valkyrie’s Choice for Export is being previewed this weekend at the VT Renaissance Faire!

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-13: Dryngedregges

6/13/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-13 - Groennfell Meadery - Dregs, the sediment that falls out of mead and other beverages, is the root of the extremely rare surname “Dryngedregges.” Makes you wonder about that family…

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-6: St. Albans

6/6/2019

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Thursday Fun Fact 6-6 - Groennfell Meadery - St. Albans, VT, is famous for being the Northernmost battle of the Civil War, something to do with railroads, and now for having a meadery! We're officially moved in!

While our new facility isn’t open to the public, you can find us at St. Albans Bay Farmers' Market on Wednesday evenings and Northwest Farmers' Market in Taylor Park on Saturdays!

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