Saturday 4 April 2009

Journey to the Hive


Good news for the blog, but bad news for my liver. I have at last stumbled upon somewhere with a decent range of Meads to drink.

The Hive Honey Shop in Wandsworth / Clapham Junction is one of those quirky independent shops that makes modern life interesting, diverse and reassuringly geeky.

They sell honey there and lots of it, along with every possible bee, honey or bees wax product imaginable. Then they sell everything conceivable associated with bees, from board games to greeting cards. Then they sell a whole load of other bee/honey products you couldn’t imagine, conceive of, or associate with bees.

You might suggest this is a theme gone too far, but I don’t believe such a thing is possible, so go there and tell me what you think.

They stock 7 varieties of Mead, along with posh wine shop style tasting tips. For one such Mead it’s suggested you try it with Stilton, which has to be worth an ambition. They offer free tasting in the shop, but I’d rather try them by the bottle.

I think all the Meads on offer originate at the Lurgashall winery, although some go under the name of ‘Malmesbury Mead’. Weirdly there seems to be no mention of the Malmesbury label of the Lurgashall website.

The 7 on sale were:
    Lurgashall English Mead
    Lurgashall Reserve Mead
    Lurgashall Spiced Mead
    Lurgashall Whiskey Mead
    Malmesbury Dry Mead
    Malmesbury Reserve Mead
    Malmesbury Whiskey Mead

The range on the website seems to differ. On the day the state of my bank balance deterred me from buying all seven, just. So undoubtably another trip.

more to follow

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