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Thistle and Stag Meadery

Meadery in Fork Union, Virginia

5★ 2 Google reviews 15th most reviewed of 16 in Virginia

Award winning meadery serving a select varieties of mead made it traditional ways. No added sulfates or preservatives, gluten-free.

Nearest meaderies

5 other meaderies within 50 miles of Thistle and Stag Meadery.

Thistlerock Mead Company Charlottesville, Virginia 19 miles
Hill Top Berry Farm Winery & Meadery Nellysford, Virginia 36 miles
Funktastic Meads & Beer Midlothian, Virginia 37 miles
Black Heath Meadery Production Site Richmond, Virginia 42 miles
Black Heath Meadery Richmond, Virginia 42 miles
Saga Meadery & Winery Luray, Virginia 63 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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