When Garagiste Meadery owner Chad Wiltz announced the meadery’s impending closure, he cited the main reason as rent increases. When the meadery closed its doors in June 2024, it was not because of a lack of interest.
Odessa’s Pye Road Meadworks is releasing their lauded Blood of the Knights mead and a Willet Bourbon-barrel-aged version just in time for the beginning of football season.
When Orlando’s Zymarium Meadery opened in the Winter Park area, it was a unique space that indicated it was not finished. Now, the meadery announces that it is opening Phase 2, a multi-purpose space called RīZōM.
This weekend, Odessa’s Pye Road Meadworks has announced the upcoming release of two new meads from the award-winning meadery.
Orlando’s young but fierce Zymarium Meadery is announcing several new meads coming tomorrow in cans and on draft.
From Zymarium Meadery:
Florida Lychee cans are BACK!!
Along with a brand new
Pineapple Passionfruit session mead!
*Tomorrow, Thursday, the 28th at 5pm*
After selling out of Florida Lychee with our first can release, we’re bringing back this fan favorite for our second can release, along with a BRAND NEW session mead, ‘Pineapple Passionfruit’, that’s just as fruity and delicious,
and bursting flavor. Both meads are also currently on tap, so you enjoy a glass in the taproom before you grab some cans to go!
Florida Lychee and Pineapple Passionfruit Cans go on sale
TOMORROW, THURSDAY MARCH 28th at 5PM
in the taproom, available in 12oz-4 packs or singles!
or
if you are not local…
You can have cans shipped straight to your doorstep in 40 different states!
(Please note, Bottles and Cans must be shipped separately)
This is your last chance to get Guava Pastelillos Cans, and it may be a year or two before we make it again, so get some before they are gone!
Pineapple Passionfruit
Session Mead – 6.9% abv
Florida Orange Blossom Honey, Pineapples and Passion Fruit, this refreshing mead is perfectly balanced between the honey and tart fruits. It’s also available in cans to take home!
Barrel-Proof Black Mangrove
Off-Dry Barrel-Aged Traditional Mead – **18.4% abv**
There is only ONE keg of this special mead, because we turned the rest into our previously released BA French Toast mead! This was the base mead, before the Maple Syrup, Cinnamon, and Vanilla were added. It’s chest-warming, rich with New American Oak, and even at 18.4% abv it’s an easy sipper.
About Zymarium Meadery
Zymarium Meadery is an award-winning meadery focusing on using local honey, unique flavors, and quality ingredients. We make all of our meads onsite, just 20 feet from the taproom where they’re served.
Since a mead can never be better than the quality of its ingredients, we use only the best honey we can find. We source our honey from as many local sources as we can, usually within two hours of Orlando, ensuring that our our meads are not only hyper local, but the money goes back to growing local hives and bee population (drink mead, save the bees!). We only use honey that has not been heated ensuring that the volatile aromatics and enzymes of the honey are preserved. Our local honey is unfiltered, just like our meads, to preserve the local pollen.
We take a modern approach to mead making, applying all the latest science of both wine- and beer-making to ensure our meads unlock the true potential of the honey while focusing on continually exploring new flavor profiles, taking full advantage of the fact that all honey tastes different!
Orlando’s Zymarium Meadery announces a new bottled offering available on January 27th: Soliloquy of Nectar: Florida Black Mangrove.
From Zymarium Meadery:
If you’ve been to the Zymarium taproom, chances are you’ve had this big sweet Traditional Mead on draft! This is one we’ve gotten countless requests to release in bottles…and here it is!
This style of mead is the truest of meads as it showcases the honey and alcohol.
Full flavored, rich with dark caramel and butterscotch notes, you can taste that 16% (without it being hot).
Florida Black Mangrove is our favorite Florida honey (and we’ve tried a LOT of honeys!).
Tupelo gets all the fanfare, but this is the true hidden gem of the South. Out on the Space Coast is all uninhabited government land, and it’s thick with dense Black Mangrove groves. Our honey source is the only person with the permits to be allowed to put hives in the middle of these groves, making it the purest, most mono-floral, honey we can source!
These unique trees grow on the edge of the saltwater, and some people swear there’s a faint hint of salt to go with all the caramel flavors.
Our previous mead releases in our ‘Soliloquy of Nectar’ series have been sweet, and we do a great job of hiding the ABV, but this one we let show through a little to help balance the sweetness even better. This mead isn’t “hot” but the 16% comes through in a wonderful way, and we’ve been aging it since June to mellow to right where we want it.
The ‘Soliloquies’ have also been oak-less in the past, but we couldn’t resist working in a little blend of oaks to help smooth the finish, temper the sweetness, and compliment the existing flavors.
About Zymarium Meadery
Zymarium Meadery is an award-winning meadery focusing on using local honey, unique flavors, and quality ingredients. We make all of our meads onsite, just 20 feet from the taproom where they’re served.
Since a mead can never be better than the quality of its ingredients, we use only the best honey we can find. We source our honey from as many local sources as we can, usually within two hours of Orlando, ensuring that our our meads are not only hyper local, but the money goes back to growing local hives and bee population (drink mead, save the bees!). We only use honey that has not been heated ensuring that the volatile aromatics and enzymes of the honey are preserved. Our local honey is unfiltered, just like our meads, to preserve the local pollen.
We take a modern approach to mead making, applying all the latest science of both wine- and beer-making to ensure our meads unlock the true potential of the honey while focusing on continually exploring new flavor profiles, taking full advantage of the fact that all honey tastes different!
Orlando’s Zymarium Meadery has given its fans a lot to celebrate since their August 2024 grand opening. From bottle releases to numerous meads on draft and bottles, the meadery has been very active. Now Zymarium is making waves this New Year’s Eve giving mead enthusiasts champagne-style mead to ring in the New Year.