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Shoehorn Brewing

Meadery in Belleville, Illinois

5★ 52 Google reviews 7th most reviewed of 10 in Illinois

Local brewery offering a constantly rotating list of beers, mead, and occasional cider all brewed on-site.

Hours

Mon	Closed
Tue	5pm – 9pm
Wed	5pm – 9pm
Thu	5pm – 9pm
Fri	12pm – 10pm
Sat	12pm – 10pm
Sun	12pm – 9pm

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

Nearest meaderies

5 other meaderies within 50 miles of Shoehorn Brewing.

Four Brothers Mead Festus, Missouri 30 miles
Mead Hall / Swarm Brewing Company St Charles, Missouri 34 miles
Brix Urban Winery & Market Ste. Genevieve, Missouri 37 miles
Crossroads Brewery O'Fallon, Missouri 45 miles
Burnt Barrel Brewery & Distillery Lake St Louis, Missouri 46 miles
Honey Heist Mead Cobden, Illinois 81 miles

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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