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A whole new world (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Our area is filled with local breweries, so I think a meadery as a local business would work.

We do! We've been doing ~1 gallon batches which gives us 5 or 6 bottles of finished product. We've been buying honey from the big box grocers but I want to switch to buying from a local beekeeper.

I've never tried using not honey, do you mean like Agave nectar or similar?

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child)

    If any of the small time beekeepers I've met are anything to go by, they'll be happy to make a deal where you take some of their honey to make mead with, a portion of which they'd sell.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    The beekeeper I dealt with was a moron. He texts me and says he's got a bucket of honey that he thinks started to ferment with wild yeast. So I offered a reasonable price for the bucket and he counters with full price, like I'm just gonna take a full risk on his fuck up. I finished up what dealings I had with him and haven't talked to to him since. They're just people, in other words.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (4 children)

    Maybe even a beekeeper who also could retail your mead, if they already have store space and customers and an assortment of honey-related products..!

    Yeah, I don't eat honey so haven't even thought about mead in a decade, but the one time I had it, it was delicious! I suppose the market of buyers with allergies or dietary restrictions against honey is too small, but I wonder if it could be possible for home use (where no one cares that it's not "real mead").

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Depending on where you are, selling booze is a massive financial undertaking. In the US, you better have 6 figures hanging around to blow. And years to wait.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Where I live you can sell like small batches of self-produced stuff (like a bottle or two after a tour or tasting), so it's not very expensive to get such a permit, but too much paper work for my taste.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (1 child)

    The little bit of looking into it that we've done, we know anything sold must be produced in a commercial kitchen, and that would be a big expense because real estate around here is ridiculous. It's really a pipe dream at this point but gives some hope to hang onto that there is something else out there for us.

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