Until recently Australia has been the last continent to be free of the honey bee-killing varroa mite so it is somewhat of a disaster for it to arrive here, not that I want it anywhere in Australia but it’s disappointing that it just happened to land right on my doorstep in the Newcastle area. All[Read more]
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Jun
Jun
The sugar contents will vary from mead to mead, a dry mead will have less residual sugar than a sweet mead. To date, all of the meads we produce hover around the semi-sweet range. The sugars will be a little more than a grape wine but fairly similar. Although we haven’t had our own mead[Read more]
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May
May
We’ve got 3 new products listed in our website for sale recently. Viking Pizza Cutter Axe Vikings loved pizza so much that they looted and pillaged in search of new pizza recipes. It is said they outlawed the use of pineapple on pizza but unfortunately were unsuccessful in stopping the spread of this forbidden ingredient.[Read more]
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Mar
Mar
Besides playing a lot of Elden Ring you mean? Well, we’ve come out with several new limited edition mead flavours in the past few months, Raspberry, Coconut, Vanilla, Apple & Matcha, Lemon & Lime and just in the last week we’ve bottled a Maple Syrup mead. Although we have always offered our meads in 750ml[Read more]
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Mar
Mar
Honey Wines Australia Meadery is now stocking some of Beechworth’s Manuka honey skincare range. You can buy these under the ‘Honey Products‘ category in our online shop. My wife is using the hand cream and balm now and she said she likes them because they are not greasy and are unscented. Oh and we have[Read more]
Most commonly mead will be gluten-free as it is made from water, honey, yeast and any additional fruits or spices. All Honey Wines Australia meads are gluten-free. There are meads that exist that do contain gluten though, although less common these are meads that are made with malted grains such as barley, this type of[Read more]
We recently caught Folk Tale Meadery in Queensland stealing our content. Specifically, our article post titled “Why Isn’t Mead As Popular As Wine?” They stole it word for word and uploaded it to their website without crediting us as the rightful author. Funnily enough, it was on a page with other content that the source[Read more]
What We Have Been Up To The last time I did an update of what we’ve been up to I said we were planning to buy land and open a cellar door in the wine tourism region of NSW, the Hunter Valley. Although that is still the goal it will be put on hold until[Read more]
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Aug
Aug
Most honey will crystalise over time, particularly in cold temperatures. You have most likely had a jar of honey crystalise in the cupboard at some point, this can vary from just being a little crunchy to being completely solid. Unlike raw honey, store-bought honey has been heat treated which makes it less likely to crystalise[Read more]
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Mar
Mar
Many people have never even heard of mead so I will quickly get the obligatory introduction of what it even is out of the way. Mead, also known as honey wine is the oldest fermented drink in the world, in it’s most basic form it is essentially honey, water and yeast. It can be dry[Read more]