Distillery Lane CiderworksGet Them To Make Mead, And You Will Always Have A Customer

摘要

This Fall me, a second year beekeeper with only 10 hives so far, and Charles Walters, who breeds Russian honey bees with his wife Maxine who were both voted Beekeepers of the year in WV, took a trip to find some new and interesting customers. We decided to pick a clear potential customer at Orchid Cellar Winery (http://or-chidcellar.com) in Middletown Maryland which focuses on Polish style meads. Me and my wife Toni had previously found Distillery Lane Ciderworks (http://distillery -laneciderworks.com) which crafts ciders from vintage European and American apple varieties, we had floated the idea to them about making a cyser from some local honey and their cider apples. I wanted to take this trip with Charles who is a sideliner and because we are both interested in making meads and ciders. Charles has more beehives but I have more apple trees. Orchid Cellar relies on locally produced raw honey for their wonderfully rich meads. The folks at the DLC have an intimate relationship with the bees pollinating their apple trees. Traveling around with a bee breeder is fun, we always get good discussions going about beekeeping and honey with meaders and ci-derists.