Rogue Trading

17/11/2024

There are a few new meads on the stall today. A new batch of Midwinter Mead (Frankincense, Ginger, Whole Oranges) and the Wild Cherry Mead (Foraged Cherries) are available to try and will be on the website shortly.

03/11/2024

November's Mead of the Month is Tyr's Mead, a wild fermentation of Ukrainian wildflower honey, Vitex honey and fresh orange juice. It will be joined by the ever-popular spiced Krampus' Mead, a mead with more flavour and spices than you can shake a cinnamon stick at.

04/10/2024

October's Mead of the Month will be the Yggdrasil mead from the Afon Mêl Meadery in Wales. Made with forest honey, this light pure honey mead will be available to sample and buy at the stall throughout this month. It will be available on the website following the first tasting at the Stockbridge Market in Edinburgh this Sunday.

03/09/2024

Remember the meads I put on last winter based on donated cappings? Well, I finally bottled them. West Lothian wildflower honey on the left and Tay Valley wildflower honey on the right. Quite a difference! 8 months on and still cloudy. Huge cat for scale.

31/08/2024

The Mead of the Month for September will be the Rookery's Silver Birch Mead. Returning after years of absence, we'll be sampling the first bottle at the Stockbridge market on Sunday the 1st, after which it will be available on the website.

24/08/2024

All set up at the Grassmarket today, where I will be trading until 5pm.

18/08/2024

At Stockbridge Market today (18th) until 4pm. The morning drizzle has cleared, and it is promising to be a great day!

10/08/2024

All set up at . As always, I will be here until 5 PM, whittering on about the wares.

04/08/2024

The Mead of the Month for August is Heimdall's Mead from with chilli and lime. Sample it at the stall at the Stockbridge Market (18th) and at Edinburgh Grassmarkets (10th and 24th) or get it on the website.

In other news, the website now ships to all of Europe!

07/07/2024

Say hello to the latest Mead of the Month! The Rookery's Wild Cherry Mead is fermented with cherries foraged in Perthshire. The flavour is not one of heavy sweetness, but instead a full tartness followed by dry fruity and marzipan notes. It will be on the website once I have finished the market (and the quality control process).

21/06/2024

All set up at Craigtoun Country Park! It's looking to be a great day with .

16/06/2024

Same, Snorri. Hard same. Thanks to everyone who braved the rain and dropped by Stockbridge today. It was great to see you all.

14/06/2024

Rogue Trading will be there too! Chris from The Rookery will be covering the Grassmarket on the Saturday, for those who might want to ask the maker about his wares.

10 day to go! We hope to see you all at Craigtoun Country Park next week for History in the Park.

08/06/2024

Business is Swift at the Grassmarket today. The Wildflower is available to try, and the weather is wonderful (if a bit breezy). What could be better? Here until 5.

02/06/2024

At Stockbridge today with June's mead of the month, the Rookery Wildflower Mead. Fermented with assorted wildflowers foraged in Perthshire, this mead is unsurprisingly floral, but also has what can only be described as a "green" botanical note.
Also a shout-out to now-favourite customer Mika, who stopped by with a wonderful bottle of whisky cask matured American mead. It will be savoured!

23/05/2024

I will NOT be at the Grassmarket this coming weekend! Instead, I will be peddling my wares (read: gawping at the jousting) at the Traquair Medieval Fayre. From 11AM to 5PM on both days, this is a yearly tradition now. Not only does the weather look to be amazing (touch wood), but I will be providing a sneak peek of June's Mead of the Month!

04/05/2024

Bit of a good news, bad news, good news today. Good news is that I will be bringing May's Mead of the Month to Stockbridge tomorrow (5th May). There will of course be tasters. The bad news is that I can no longer hold back the tides of inflation (and a seemingly rocketing price of glassware) and will have to raise some prices on the Nidhoggr, Lancashire Mead Co., and Afon Mêl bottles, generally by about £5. The final good news is that prices will go up AFTER tomorrow's market, so for those of you who read this far, May the fourth be with you!

27/04/2024

It's a wonderful day at the Grassmarket. Here until 5pm, although business is brisk, so come early to try the full range!