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There's a Meadery in East Tennessee
Submitted by redmondkr on Fri, 2008/10/10 - 8:55pm.
Today as we were leaving the Tennessee Fall Homecoming we spotted a sign across the road from the exit of the Museum of Appalachia:
"Winery - 441 North"
We followed the signs and found the Shady Grove Meadery on Norris Freeway in Lake City. They have a clean, bright, and cheery place to experience free tastes of their delicious 'new' ancient beverage.
According to their web site their products are available in many Knoxville area stores but you have to go to their tasting room to get the view.
Submitted by sugarfatpie on Sat, 2008/10/11 - 12:01pm.
Shady Grove meadery produces some of the best mead I have ever had. Yum yum!
Not that I'm a connoisseur, or anything. The last mead I had was from Slovenia, and it was so intensely sweet that if, within five minutes of drinking the stuff, you had a beer, it would taste like potatoes.
Not so with the Shady Grove stuff, which is dry and smooth. Almost like a champagne. And no hangover either, if my experience is any example. My folks bought a case for the UT gardens benefit they hosted. Everyone loved it.
The one downside is the synthetic corks. Which I had to use a plumbers wrench to get off. They sure do pop though!
We may have the makings of a regional delicacy/craft industry here, thanks to a great climate for tulip poplar and clover, and the skills at Shady Grove. If Lumpy's mead is just as good, well then thats proof that any university twit could do it.
And finally, a way to get a marketable product out of an intact forest without cutting it down!
Did ya'll know Lumpy Lambert makes mead? It's good, too.
Shady Grove meadery produces some of the best mead I have ever had. Yum yum!
Not that I'm a connoisseur, or anything. The last mead I had was from Slovenia, and it was so intensely sweet that if, within five minutes of drinking the stuff, you had a beer, it would taste like potatoes.
Not so with the Shady Grove stuff, which is dry and smooth. Almost like a champagne. And no hangover either, if my experience is any example. My folks bought a case for the UT gardens benefit they hosted. Everyone loved it.
The one downside is the synthetic corks. Which I had to use a plumbers wrench to get off. They sure do pop though!
We may have the makings of a regional delicacy/craft industry here, thanks to a great climate for tulip poplar and clover, and the skills at Shady Grove. If Lumpy's mead is just as good, well then thats proof that any university twit could do it.
And finally, a way to get a marketable product out of an intact forest without cutting it down!
Hats off, and bottoms up!
-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)
"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin
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