Honey-Perhaps more significantly, honey itself enjoys one of the smallest carbon footprints of any natural sweetener. Honey production itself remains so low tech that it employs simple manpower, not lumbering machines. Producing, and using honey is skill based, rather than machine dependent - learned and carried out by farmers in the simplest to most advance economies, and uses only a few feet of land per hive, rather than acres. Luckily, we live in a part of the world where we can draw beautiful honey from many local producers. And finally, the presence of the honeybees actually increases the health and production of the land that we use!

Fermentation-Sky River Meads are fermented in small batches, year round. This allows us to function without huge inventories of barrels and equipment which sit idle most of the year. And when it comes time to bottle our meads five wonderful women hand bottle and label all of our meads.

Mead... the sacred drink of men and gods alike, brewed from honey believed to have descended from the Heavens as dew then gathered in by bees. Folklore tells us that Mead was thought to bestow health and strength, wit and poetry, and to impart virility and long life to those who partook of its fragrant essence.

From the distant cultures of ancient Europe, shrouded in mist, Sky River brings the age-old art of making mead into the twenty-first century to create a new tradition.