A Guide to Starting a Meadery: Part 1 (The Business Model & Funding)

[@starrlightmead]

Great information. When people come in and ask "I made a mead once and now I want to start a meadery. What do I need to know?", I'll be pointing them to this series! Well done.

[@db8rm607]

I have been brewing for about a year and a half doing different recipes of meads, and ive recently just been thinking about how this would be done. This video couldn't have come at a better time!

[@needformead9540]

I started my Meadery here in San Diego last December. Just got my federal license last week so submitting recipes and labels to the TTB. There is a lot to doing this and Billy is right making the mead is a small portion of what you have to do to get the business going. Business model is a must have item before you start your adventure, I am doing a combination of both wine and mead.

[@tkdyo]

Very cool thank you for starting this series. I really want to start a meadworks within the next year or two so this is very timely. This video already assured me that I am on the right track, as I really want to have more of the winery style business model where we are just selling some high quality bottles to people in a peaceful, relaxed setting. I really dislike session meads. I love big body still meads. So those two things align quite well. I live in the Detroit area where we are lucky enough to have multiple large successful meaderies. But most of them do not like to keep the same flavors around, even of their big body still meads. It was one of the main reasons why I took up home-brewing, so that I could recreate some of my favorites because I knew they'd be gone in less than a year, never to return. I am hoping to fill the niche of being that meadery you can count on to sell some good, consistent satisfying stills.

[@dreamspectre_]

I've been visiting Lost Cause since 2019, and was a frequent guest of their co-host satellite tasting room Serpentine Cider since they opened! I'm blessed with access to a lot of great local meaderies in the San Diego area, but Lost Cause is by and far the best!!! And I've always been kind of bummed at Billy's no-repeat philosophy, because they have a fantastic dry-hopped pineapple brew named Mellow Mel, and I've purchased probably a dozen growlers of it! But, i suppose it makes it all the more special when it does come around again. And Jäxa will always be my favorite punch-you-in-the-mouth intensely flavourful and complex mead!

[@TigerPat_9180]

Really Appreciate Your Video , Thanks ! 🐯🤠

[@bengal_godgaming7500]

Love the video appreciate it I want to branch out start and build my own business

[@tippitytunk]

Great video! I like this variety of content giving us a view into the business side of mead making

[@andrewburget6692]

Cool topic. Thanks for sharing!

[@riukrobu]

Extremely interesting, thanks a lot!

[@13thCharacter]

I have a long-term goal of starting a berry winery on our family farm and am finding a lot in this video that's relevant. Thanks guys!

[@gregj1789]

Awesome!

[@lucaspeckham5823]

I am looking to sell mead at a Renaissance faire

[@magacop5180]

You’ll need a registered Meadery first.

[@isabelmugaas15]

Is there an easy way to figure out what my state allows in terms of distribution or tastings? I’m not sure where to look for that kind of information.

[@ManMadeMead]

I would suggest talking to your local brewery or winery if you have one!

[@rageisalotofwork]

Very cool. I have friends who work in the wine and spirits industry, and they say a lot of the same things.

[@ClydeHays]

This is perfect. Was just working on winery’s as competitors on my business plan. Appreciate this series

[@bobbyblazes4398]

Very interesting to see this revival

[@honeywinesaustralia]

This man speaks the truth

[@Chemist1076]

Rad man

[@JamesLStapleton]

Yesssssss. Now THIS is the content I need! I will be watching this again and again.

[@flammadesilentio3252]

Not in the hobby for long enough, but gimme somewhere between 3-20 years. I’d def be down to start a meadery.

[@CramerMarkWill]

Thank you for making this, I have been looking so hard for information on starting a meadery. Please please continue this series through.

[@ThailandRex]

Lost Cause is the reason that I started making mead…. That and moving to Thailand where I can’t buy mead

[@skullcrusher9445]

This is gonna turn into the craft brew scene... too many breweries.

[@honeywinesaustralia]

For tasting room it is important to charge for tastings. Free tastings get's lots of freeloaders. Charging too little, same thing but not quite as bad. You have to charge enough that even if they leave without purchasing they have at minimum covered the cost of the goods they sampled, the washing of the glasses and if you're lucky, the cost of your time they wasted.

[@smalliq1829]

This is so incredibly boring. Driest interview I've ever seen

[@ManMadeMead]

Sorry dude!