Mead doesn’t have to be sweet.
Sure, it’s a beverage created from fermenting honey and water, but like beer and wine, mead is diverse. And most of all, mead is delicious.
At the Viking Alchemist Meadery — located in both Smyrna and Marietta — its mead-makers took most of the world's perception of mead and turned it on its head through crafting an off-dry and delightfully acidic concoction — Solifaction.
Tamara Kosoris, the meadery’s head mead-maker, said Solifaction was a part of the operation’s signature meads when they first opened in 2016. Like an alchemist transforming gold into wine, she took Georgia wildflower honey and conjured something worthy of Dionysus.
“As a challenge, we made it as an off-dry,” Kosoris said. “Everyone talks about how sweet mead is.”
Solifaction from the Viking Alchemist Meadery strikes a delicate balance between dryness and honey. - photo by Kelsey Podo
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