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Honey Heist Mead

Meadery in Cobden, Illinois

5★ 122 Google reviews 4th most reviewed of 10 in Illinois

The tasting room is closed for winter break. Pickups can still be scheduled once orders are made through the website. We will reopen March 13th. Thank you for an amazing 2025! The Honey Heist Mead Co is a small farm-style meadery amidst the scenic Shawnee National Forest in the heart of Southern Illinois, just outside of downtown Cobden. Our mead / honey winery specializes in mead made with fruit and spice common in Southern Illinois. Experience a rotating variety of carbonated meads that can only be found in the tasting room in addition to our core meads available in glasses, flights and bottles to go.

Hours

Mon Closed
Tue Closed
Wed Closed
Thu Closed
Fri 1pm – 6pm
Sat 12pm – 6pm
Sun 12pm – 5pm

Hours come from public listing data and can change. Call ahead before travelling.

Nearest meaderies

Nothing else within 50 miles. The closest are below.

Distances are straight line from the listed addresses, not driving distance.

New to mead?

What Is a Meadery?

A meadery is a place that makes mead, which is wine made from honey. Here is what that means in practice, and what you will find if you walk into one.

Is Mead Wine or Beer?

Mead is wine. It ferments from honey rather than grain, and federal law regulates it under the wine rules, even when it is poured in a taproom that feels like a brewery.

Mead Tasting: What to Expect on Your First Meadery Visit

What a mead tasting actually involves: flights, prices, how to order, whether you can tour the production side, and what to check before you drive out.

Types of Mead Explained

Melomel, metheglin, cyser, braggot. The words on a meadery tasting list all mean the same thing: mead, plus whatever went in alongside the honey.

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