Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co

22/04/2025

🕺Rock music and burgers! 🍔

What a combo... This Saturday at the meadery we've got the epic HILLS Brecon heading to the meadery alongside the legendary Velvet Man God!

Come and join us for our April party, feast on multi award-winning burgers and wash it down with delicious meads and honey beers! 🍻

Tickets are free (used for food numbers) so please book a space here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wyevalleymeadery

See you there! 🍻🍔🕺

16/04/2025

Small Batch Series - 7

Introducing: 😵‍💫 Hoptical Beelusion 🐝

Missed our hopped mead? Hoptical Beelusion is a double dry hopped (DDH) sparkling mead made with Mosaic, Citra and Nectaron hops. Hypnotically fresh and hoppy, levels of tropical fruit characters of pineapple and passion fruit as well as stone fruit (peach) and citrus (grapefruit).

Available on the web shop here:
https://hivemindmead.com/collections/small-batch-series/products/small-batch-series-7-hoptical-beelusion-preorder

375 bottles made
2 x 20L kegs available to trade
6% 375ml
Sweetness 7/10
Hoppiness 10/10

08/04/2025

We are at the Farm Shop & Deli Show!

This year we are on two of our wonderful wholesalers stands, Craft Drinks Co (Q181) and Gorgeous Food Co (L251). We've been here since Monday, but there's one day left to see us if you are heading here tomorrow.

We are celebrating the launch of our new Honeyade soft drinks, which are available via all of our usual sales channels as of next week 😁

Today we had the opportunity to talk about the Welsh PGI status for Heather honey, and why provenance is so important when choosing your food and drink. For us as mead makers, we use lots of heather honey in our products including our traditional, sparkling and our new 100% Heather Honey dry mead (Hiraeth).

Grab a glass and celebrate with us!

24/03/2025

🍺 This Saturday at the meadery! 🍛

We're kicking off our 2025 taproom parties with the fantastic Eastside Kings Rhythm and Swing Quartet, and delicious food by Tandoori G

Tickets are going fast, so don't forget to reserve a space (or we'll run out of food 😯)

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wyevalleymeadery

19/03/2025

🎁 Hamper Giveaway! 🎁

Want to treat your Mum (or your very own Queen Bee) this Mother's Day?

Enter our giveaway to WIN this bee-autiful hamper featuring our bestsellers, along with a few extra special gifts to really make her day. 

The hamper is available to buy now and inside you'll find...

🐝 Wye Valley Traditional Mead 200ml x1
🐝  Jar of Wye Valley Honey x1
🐝  Sparkling Mead x1
🐝  Honeyade x2
🐝  Hive Mind Half Pint Glass x1
🐝  Kate Humble Hand Cream x1
🐝  Beeswax Candle x1
🐝  Honey Stirrer x1
🐝  Seed Bomb x1

To enter:
✅ Like this post 
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✅ Tag the woman who inspires you the most (& then tag as many friends as you want. 1 comment tag = 1 entry)
✅ Optional: Share to your story for 5 extra entries

Giveaway closes 6pm on 24th March and we'll message the winner the next day!

18/03/2025

Did you know you can find our drinks at the fantastic Chepstow Art Space? This fantastic community asset runs workshops on topics such as wood carving, stained glass, pattern cutting, printing, pottery, creative writing, painting, and jewellery making.

They also have an events space and are hosting a comedy night this Friday with our beers and Honeyade available on the bar 🍻

Come join us for a night of laughs at Chepstow Art Space! Get ready to quack up with our lineup of hilarious comedians. It's going to be a night full of jokes, puns, and good times. Grab your friends and get ready to laugh until your sides hurt Dead Funny! Friday 21st March 20:00-22:00 (Doors will b...

17/03/2025

🎁 Mother's Day Hampers! 🎁

We've just launched hampers on our web shop!

It's that time of year to honour the Queen Bee in your life! This year, we're celebrating with a special hamper featuring our bestsellers, along with a few extra special gifts to make it even more memorable.

Inside this hamper:
Honeyade x2
Sparkling Mead
Jar of Wye Valley Honey
Beeswax Candle
Wye Valley Traditional Mead 200ml
Hive Mind Half pint Glass
Honey Stirrer
Seed Bomb
Hand Cream

See it in our web shop here: https://hivemindmead.com/products/mothers-day-honey-hamper

Photography by

16/03/2025

🍻 Bringing mead to the masses 🍻

Episode 3/3 of our YouTube series is out now! In this episode we visit Bath Christmas market, where we had a stand for the first time. The final taster count by the end was over 8700 😅

See the full episode here: https://youtu.be/6Jfb3cuBhD4?si=vpfDAy8_DacNOqHO

Filmed and produced by Harleys Global

16/03/2025

Joe Park, Chef Manager at the wonderful Harts Barn Cookery School has been doing wonderful things with our leftover yeast (which is the only waste product from making mead). Fantastic to work together to reduce waste, and make something delicious!

Joe Parke says he was "blown away" by the taste of the paste he created after teaming up with a mead-making firm.

14/03/2025

🌻 Spring is almost here! 🌻

Not that we are counting, but It's only 6 days until it's officially Spring!

Some things we are looking forward to:
- Sparkling mead picnics
- Getting back out with the bees
- Festivals and events
- Wearing shorts
- Not having to wear thermals in the meadery
- The sunshine 🤞
- Taproom parties!

What are you looking forward to doing this spring?

07/03/2025

🍯 Honeyade Tasting! 🍯

We'll be at in Clapham today 3-5pm doing tastings of our new Honeyade!

This is our last day of having the beehive display here, but don't worry, you'll be able to get Honeyade across all the Village Wholefoods sites 😁

07/03/2025

🍺 This is how we Brew it 🍺

Join us brewing our delicious smoked honey porter and trying some mead in Episode 2/3 of our new YouTube series!

Here's a snippet from the latest episode, where we discuss how much honey goes into a batch of mead, and the challenges of scaling up whilst retaining authenticity.

See the full episode here: https://youtu.be/YypAKRPSdAw?si=QjdqTJdNsoiHl5tO

Filming by Harleys Global

06/03/2025

🕺 Taproom parties are back! 🕺

The last Saturday of March (29th) will see the return of our monthly taproom parties 🥳🥳🥳

We've missed you all and are looking forward to seeing you back in the meadery again! Our first event will have the music by the Eastside Kings Rhythm and Swing band, and food by the fantastic

We'll also have some new meads for you to try on the bar.

Free tickets are available here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wyevalleymeadery?
(these are so we can get numbers for food, so please only book if you are coming)

Let's welcome the start of Spring with a big old party 🍻
Who's coming? 🙋

04/03/2025

🥞 Happy Pancake Day!! 🥞

We're celebrating with a glass of our new Blueberry Stack!

Latest from our small batch series, this is a delightful 8% Blueberry and Maple Syrup mead, available in bottle and keg! (We have just 5 x 20l Kegs 😏)

We'll be pouring one of those kegs at our taproom event at the end of March.

Who's tried this one already? 🤤

03/03/2025

🍯 Is your honey even real? 🍯

Here's a snippet from our new YouTube video. Join us discussing the challenges of the honey market, what makes mead wonderful, and doing our winter bee checks. 🐝

See the full episode here: https://youtu.be/P9sQ8A2tudw?si=sKnbBREMBu7-OjmW

Filming by Harleys Global

01/03/2025

The sun is finally shining! 😎 Hopefully this is a taste of things to come. Who else can't wait to sip something sweet under the sun? 🙋