Sunday, May 27, 2012

Buying Mead Online

Figuring out the best place to buy mead online can be challenging. There are lots of options out there. If you have never bought mead before then there are a few things to consider. Just looking at the decision from a price point brings a few things to mind that should be considered. Hidden Legend Winery doesn't have the lowest price per bottle for mead online but when you look at our shipping options you will find that you can try a bottle of mead from Hidden Legend winery for less then anywhere else. Order 3 bottles or more and really enjoy savings with our free shipping option. You can get a bottle of award winning mead from Hidden Legend, delivered anywhere in the lower 48 states for $25.94. That includes shipping. Now lets take a look at some other website's prices: 1 bottle of Skyriver Mead to CA $35.17, to OH $39.98 1 bottle of Bunratty Mead on Google Shopping from $28.64 to $37.95. 1 bottle of Brotherhood Carroll's Mead from ShopRite Liquors with shipping to CA $29.95 to OH $32.15. Everywhere I look, a bottle of Mead is pushing $30 or much more. There are many examples you can check out. I only posted a few for brevity's sake. At Hidden Legend Winery we have kept shipping prices low by passing our discount with UPS down to you. Order 3 bottles or more and get free shipping. Visit Hidden Legend to see our selection. We currently ship to 27 states and DC. See our list of states on our website. Please shoot me an email at joe@hiddenlegendwinery.com if you have any questions.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

License to Mead

Hidden Legend Winery now has licenses to ship mead to LA, IA, and ID. This brings the number of states we can ship to up to 21. See our complete list on our website. We will continue to work to add states. IL and TX are in the works now. If you are looking for a user friendly website to buy mead from, we have what you are looking for. We are now offering free shipping for orders of 4 bottles of mead or more. Check us out at www.hiddenlegendwinery.com.

Monday, February 13, 2012

What is Mead?

What is mead? The basic answer is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey, but there is more to it. The U.S. government answers the question what is mead by saying it is "honey wine", probably because it is made by the same process as wine, but it deserves a classification of its own. What is mead? You ask? Mead can be sweet or dry, sparkling or still, and flavored with anything imaginable. Honey doesn’t oxidize like grapes do so mead doesn’t have to be consumed before the next morning, or you'll have to cook with it, like wine. A good bottle of mead will never make it to the next day though, because it will be gone. If you've never tried it before, visit Hidden Legend and order a bottle.

What is mead? Mead has a flavor and mouth feel unlike any other drink. Classifying it as wine doesn’t do it justice and it is not beer either. It is mead and is probably the oldest alcoholic beverage on the planet. Really wine and beer should be compared to mead, not the other way around. Mead should be the standard. The reason we can say that mead is the world’s oldest drink is answered in the question, “What is mead?”

Mead is fermented honey. Honey was the only universal sugar source. Bees make honey on every continent. Grapes, sugar cane, wheat, corn, potatoes, and every other sugar source came from specific regions and were not always as widespread as they are today. Mead can be traced back to many places. What is mead? Mead is the original, the one that all others should be compared too.