During August of 2021, Georgia Wine Producers put on Georgia Wine Highway and offered a wine passport for visitors to come and sample up to four varieties of wine or mead from 41 GA wineries, of which Waldmet Cellars was one of the participants. This is what brought John Hollner, the Hot Sauce Sensei, up to Jasper from his home in west Cobb, outside Marietta, where he liked what he tasted and bought so much that two weeks later he drove an hour to try more of our meads!
Posted 16. February 2022.
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Jasper’s first meadery, Waldmet Cellars, is opening a brand new larger winery & taproom this September; just one year after opening. Since opening their doors in August of 2020, Waldmet Cellars has already produced an impressive selection of craft meads and more. Some of which have received medals in local and national competitions.
Posted 2. August 2021.
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Big changes are coming to the annual event known as Wine Highway. Now known as Georgia Wine Highway and sponsored by Georgia Wine Producers, the statewide organization representing wineries and vineyards in Georgia. In 2020, wine highway transitioned to a month-long event, this tradition will continue in 2021. Georgia Wine Highway will be held the entire month of August 2021.
Posted 26. July 2021.
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The Waldmet Style starts with the best ingredients that nature has to offer and combines them in such a way to create imbibable products that develop memorably during their journey across your palate...beginning, middle (mid-palate) and end (finish). There’s no need to be a wine expert to appreciate the flavors as the experience is intuitive and hard-wired into our senses.
Posted 17. June 2021.
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Although the first day of Spring isn't until March 20th, we wanted to get the celebration started a week early. So that means opening up our back patio, half-priced growler fills all weekend, new multi-bottle discounts, more games, and some news about new libations. Also, we can now ship to California! That makes it 38 states!
Posted 11. March 2021.
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Meet Mike. He owns Waldmet Cellars and is also the Meadmaker there. He's a bit of a fermentation fanatic, experienced home cook, and an avid craftsman & outdoorsman. With a professional background in marketing, graphic design, and software development; mead has been one of his many hobbies that allows him to step away from a screen and get his hands dirty.
Posted 24. January 2021.
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Although mead is often associated with Viking and Medieval culture, it has been enjoyed by many others as well. Mead is likely the oldest alcoholic beverage, with evidence of its production being traced back to 6,500 to 7,000 B.C. in Northern China. That's certainly well before beer and grape wine made an appearance. Here’s why you should give this ancient drink a try now.
Posted 26. December 2020.
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Help spread some holiday cheer this year by sharing some of the finest meads & ciders on offer. We’re a husband and wife team that live in Jasper, GA and make all of our small-batch meads and ciders here as well. Our taproom may have only opened this past August, but we've been crafting fine mead, cider, wine, beer, and more for over 12 years. That dedication to craft beverages certainly shows in the quality of our products. Make sure to enjoy a bottle or two and share some of our unique offerings with friends and family this holiday season.
Posted 29. November 2020.
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The first 3 meads coming from our barrel program are now available for prerelease. This means that you can sample and purchase them in the taproom. In the next few weeks they will be available for purchase online as well. Keep reading for more details about these meads and our mead club.
Posted 15. October 2020.
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We've been hard at work since the grand opening of our taproom on August 29, 2020. Our mead has already been shipped to 6 states, there are multiple barrels filled with mead that should be going into bottles in the next month or so, more batches of mead are being started, session meads should be available in cans soon, we started offering free WiFi, and the final touches are being put on our mead club...the Kupfer Klub "Copper Club".
Posted 18. September 2020.
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Jasper’s first meadery, Waldmet Cellars, will host a grand opening celebration on August 29, 2020 from 1-8 p.m. for its brand-new taproom. A wide selection of meads and other products will be available at the new taproom. For the grand opening celebration, there will be 6+ meads on draft and a few more in bottles. From classic honey to fruit and herb-infused varieties. Other varieties will be announced soon when they are available for purchase.
Posted 12. August 2020.
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Most simply, mead is a wine made with honey. It is fermented with three basic ingredients: honey, water, and yeast. However, there are many different styles of mead, which are based on the basic ingredients (e.g., honey) and flavorings (e.g., herbs, spices) added, degree of sweetness, alcoholic strength, degree of carbonation, and even country of origin.
Posted 26. August 2019.
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Cyser is a type of mead where all (or some) of the water used to dilute the honey is replaced with apple cider. Over the years, I have made many batches of cyser and making it has become a Fall tradition for me. Here is a basic recipe for a 5-gallon batch of spiced cyser. Cheers.
Posted 18. October 2017.
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As with grape wine, the fermentation and maturation process of mead can vary considerably due to multiple factors. Yeast has specific nutrient requirements for reproduction, with nitrogen (particularly yeast-assimilable nitrogen; YAN) being one of the most important. Other major factors that influence mead fermentation are low pH and low mineral content (lighter honey).
Posted 3. October 2017.
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Jun tea is a fermented beverage made with green tea and honey. It is closely related to kombucha and is not considered an alcoholic beverage if it is at or under 0.5% ABV. If it’s non-alcoholic, then why are we writing about it on a website about mead? Because it doesn’t have to be non-alcoholic and can be made more like a mead, that’s why. Plus it’s delicious and has possible probiotic and other health benefits.
Posted 14. September 2017.
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When I started making mead at home, I didn’t concern myself much with a cloudy batch. It still tasted good and would usually clear in the bottle over time, so why bother?
Posted 1. September 2017.
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Yeasts are small single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. More importantly, the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae loves to convert carbohydrates (sugars) into carbon dioxide and alcohols (ethanol mostly). There are also some other yeast species and bacteria that are utilized to make mead, wine, beer, etc., but Saccharomyces cerevisiae is king.
Posted 29. August 2017.
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