Ethan McNamara carries with him a deep appreciation for the blend of science and tradition that mead-making represents.

While mead, a type of honey wine, shares many similarities with beer, there are also plenty of differences that separate these two fermented drinks. Mead goes back, way back to a time before wine ...

That reliance on honey makes batches of mead trickier to standardize than other beverages. “Mead makers talk about mead having a distinctive terroir in a way that beer really doesn’t have or ...

Situated outside of Charlottesville, Thistlerock Mead Co. has built a sustainable ecosystem around the drink—from flower to bottle.