Consuming The Craft

Diane Currier is the founder of Honeygirl Meadery, a meadery based in Durham, North Carolina. Diane first discovered mead after visiting her sister in Alaska and experiencing her first taste. In 2012, after earning a second-place ribbon at the North Carolina State Fair for her hibiscus lemon thyme mead recipe, she decided to launch her company to produce high-quality, handmade meads that promote and support and support beekeeping and honeybees while improving their natural habitats. Diane joins me today to explain what mead is and how she learned the art and science of mead-making. She shares how she finds inspiration for new mead flavors, the current trends in the mead industry, and why she decided to make session meads. She also discusses the ‘grassroots’ of the Mead Revival and how she has grown - and helped establish - the culture of mead making.  This week on Consuming the Craft: ●     What inspired Diane’s passion for mead-making?●     How she learned to make mead.●     The pre- and post-production proc