“It’s so relaxing,” I hear a patron say. We’re inside the tasting room at Wilderbee Farm, overlooking an orchard of budding fruit trees, each with a glass of mead in hand.
The Mead Werks tasting room has cozy wood accents, making it feel like a mountain lodge inside a farmhouse. I can spy the honey boxes across the lawn, where the bees are working hard. They’re the only ones here who don’t seem at ease.
Mead is having a bit of a moment. The lightly sweet wine-like drink has been buoyed by growing interest in niche craft beverages, with most makers leaning into its historic
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