Brotherhood Carroll's Mead

A special celebratory Mead of old served at weddings and homecoming feasts, given to honor the knight upon his triumphant return. The Mead is sweet in style. According to legend, Sweet Mead was served to eliminate the bitter taste of battle.In the fall of 2005, I took a long standing family tradition of making sweet mead to a commercial level. My goal was to create a mead that was lighter in taste and body than most commercially produced meads, and to capture the sweet wine enthusiast as well as to maintain an ancient tradition of making wine from pure honey, water and yeast.\t

My initial meeting with world renowned winemaking consultant Cesar Baeza, Wine Master at Brotherhood, America’s Oldest Winery was to discuss the concept. “Can honey be cold fermented, much the same as Riesling, to maintain the fresh fruity flavors and floral aromas in the honey?” “I am not sure.” was Cesar’s response, and thus began the process.