Combined Meadia is now open! Produced at and sharing a tasting room with Hatch Distilling Co. in Egg Harbor, they give attention to native elements and clever mixing of our Mead, Ciders, and Wines. Mead is wine comprised of honey.
Regarded as the world’s first fermented beverage, mead has lengthy been a favourite in smaller circles however has been rising steadily in recognition and recognition lately. Combined Meadia is proud to grow to be Door County’s first Meadery. Their meads are domestically sourced, fermented and bottled, and we make them in an approachably contemporary and fragrant model. By July, they may have three meads on our cabinets; a dry or Brut glowing mead, a barely sweeter or glowing mead, and a mead comprised of honey and apples (which is known as a cyser) blended with Door County’s well-known tart cherries.
Opening a Meadery inside a distillery may look like an odd transfer, however it’s surprisingly symbiotic. There are occasions through the distillation course of the place tanks used for fermentation are left idle, so why not put them to good use? Additionally, Hatch Distilling Co. is exclusive of their use of honey to make vodka, gin, and different spirits. They usually get requested if which means they make mead too, and now they’ll say sure! This space-sharing and sustainable mindset of manufacturing is seen of their sourcing, too.
Certainly one of their inspirations to make use of honey within the fermentations is its low environmental impression. Whereas the bees are busy serving to to pollinate the vineyards, orchards and gardens, they produce sufficient honey per acre for about 1,400 bottles of mead. In addition they share Hatch’s ethos of sourcing domestically and sustainably, and are grape growers and beekeepers themselves!
Exterior of what they produce themselves, Combined Meadia sources as a lot as they’ll from Door County itself, and nothing from outdoors of Wisconsin, to be able to present guests with actual expression of place. They’re centered on producing contemporary, fragrant, well-balanced meads, and shortly will quickly have ciders and wines as properly. They’re particularly excited to start our conventional technique glowing wine program after grape harvest this September. (i.e. search for Door County “Champagne” within the close to future, yum!) They’re additionally working to get their meads and ciders into cans by the tip of summer time to make them simpler to be loved whereas exploring all Door County has to supply. Think about sipping a bubbly cherry mead in your seaside picnic with a bowl of pick-your-own cherries from a neighborhood orchard, or quenching your thirst with a crisp cider whereas leaf-peeping in one in all our stunning parks. Quintessential Door County. (*chef’s kiss) When you don’t have a visit up right here deliberate this summer time bottles shall be hitting shops quickly!
The identify Combined Meadia stems from our perception within the artwork of the mix. They like to consider their winemaker such as you would a chef; somebody who fastidiously selects every ingredient and mindfully blends them in a method that creates a completed product that’s greater than the sum of its components. A superb mix permits them to take every particular person ferment, spotlight their favourite points of it, layer them collectively to enrich one another, and obtain an ideal steadiness of flavors and textures to provide a very scrumptious and nuanced expertise. Whereas they’re excited for his or her conventional meads to showcase honey as a fermented beverage, mead additionally makes an ideal spine for mixing. It gives a extra impartial base that the winemaker can affect the construction and flavors of by mixing apples, grapes, hops and herbs in limitless combos. Their subsequent releases will embrace a cherry mead, a hopped mead, a rose styled grape/honey mix (known as a pyment), a cider, and the primary wine classic! In addition to profiting from their used spirits barrels (bourbon barrel aged mead).
About Combined Meadia
Based in 2022, Combined Meadia is a subsidiary of Hatch Distilling Co. Each Hatch and Combined Meadia are proponents for native agriculture, and along with being beekeepers and grape growers themselves, work with native growers to sustainably produce and supply the most effective elements they’ll for his or her spirits, meads, ciders, and wines. Combined Meadia strives to assist unfold curiosity in and delight of high quality meads and domestically grown wines and ciders. They consider in offering their prospects with a enjoyable and accessible strategy to study concerning the area and merchandise whereas sharing the eagerness for the craft with them.
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https://www.hatchdistilling.com/
