Mead is a fermented beverage made from honey, water, yeast, and potentially additional flavorings such as fruits or spices. If you've never had mead before, stop by the Meadiocrity tasting room in San Diego or purchase online .

What does mead taste like?

Mead flavor is dependent on the ingredients used to make it. Flavors can range from sweet to dry, fruity to herbal, still to bubbling. We serve a variety of meads that will fit any palate at our San Diego tasting room and select varieties available to ship nationwide in our online store .

A meadery is the location where mead is made, just like a brewery makes beer and a winery makes wine. Come visit our San Diego tasting room , and we'll show you around.

Mead is gluten free. In the United States, meaderies are not allowed to use grain in the production of mead, which would render a mead not gluten free.

San Diego Mead

Meadiocrity Mead produces award winning mead in San Diego focusing on a unique Bee-to-Bottle approach. We were beekeepers from the start, caring for million bees and capturing billions of flower pollinations to ensure that we receive the best quality honey by treating our bees in the best ways possible. We work with local San Diego farmers and ranchers to select unique nectar that produces incredible mead at our meadery and tasting room in north county. Stop by to try our constantly rotating tap list and see what flavors and styles you like. Whether you like wine, beer, spirits, or seltzers, we have a mead for you. Don’t like mead? Well you haven’t had ours yet. Also be sure to check out our fresh line of low ABV sparkling meads: BZZ Liquid Gold.

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San Marcos Tasting Room & Mead Garden

Come and visit our meadery. We have full indoor seating and an outdoor Mead Garden and regular events including Open Mic Nights on Saturdays and D&D Nights on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

We’re located right off Highway 78 at the Las Posas exit in north San Diego county, in San Marcos, California.

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What is Mead?

Mead, also known as honey wine, is an ancient beverage made from fermented honey and water. It’s not just for vikings! Learn more about what makes our modern mead so special.

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Our Story

We started as beer brewers, wine makers, and beekeepers making raw honey before making mead. Read about who we are and how we started a meadery in San Diego, California.

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