Wye Valley Meadery

I got a taste for mead when I was a re-enactor - Moniak was the drink of choice around the camp fires in the evenings.
So I was interested to see this in Hay Deli:

This is a sort of cross between craft beer and mead - they add Cascade hops as a cold infusion during the fermentation of the mead. It's more sparkly than mead without hops, and comes in at a strength of 5.5%, about the same as a stronger beer. It's also bottle conditioned, which means there may be a bit of residue in the bottom.

The information on the label starts with the hard work of the bees - 300,000 flowers visited, and 12,000 miles flown for the honey in one bottle!
Their website, www.wyevalleymeadery.co.uk, is fascinating - they run mead making courses, where you can learn about mead from around the world, and mead through the ages (Wales is a traditional mead drinking area right back into the Middle Ages, and long before that).
They also run bee keeping courses, something that's particularly important now. As Sir David Attenborough has said - in the last 5 years, the bee population of the world has dropped by one third.
If that continues, humans will be unlikely to survive, since bees are essential to pollinate all sorts of different crops.
So the more people willing and able to keep bees, the better.

As well as the honey and hops mead, they also produce Honey and Rhubarb and Honey and Elderflower - I'll be looking out for them!