• What is Mead? A Beginner’s Guide

    02-07-2024

    What is Mead? Mead is one of the oldest fermented beverages, and has been made for thousands of years. But what exactly is it? Fundamentally, it is a beverage created …Read More

  • How to Store Open Bottles of Mead

    02-11-2024

    Open mead bottles should be stored and treated like open wine bottles. For short-term storage of open bottles of mead, the quickest and easiest way to store the mead is …Read More

  • What is a Loganberry?

    02-11-2024

    A Loganberry is a cross between a red raspberry and a blackberry. Loganberries look like large, elongated red raspberries, with a slightly deeper berry color. In the early 1880’s Santa …Read More

  • What is a Boysenberry?

    02-07-2024

    A Boysenberry is a hybrid berry from Blackberry, Red Raspberry, Dewberry, and Loganberry. Boysenberries were bred by Rudolf Boysen in Northern California in the early 1900’s. They are luscious and …Read More

  • Why are Black Currants Perfect for Mead?

    02-07-2024

    What are Black Currants?  Black Currants are small, dark berries that are rich in Vitamin C.  Black Currants have a deep, tart flavor and a rich color which makes them …Read More

  • Heart of Darkness Batch 11 + Thankful Release Details

    11-26-2023

    The Heart of Darkness Batch 11 will be released tomorrow — Sunday, November 27th at 1pm Eastern. Limit one per person. $180 per 375ml. No 187ml, 200ml or 750ml bottles …Read More

  • Heritage Mead Production Update

    01-14-2022

    Heritage Red Raspberry Harvest Report Heritage Raspberries are some of the most flavorful and delicious red raspberries available. Schramm’s Mead has regularly been fortunate enough to source our Heritage Red …Read More

  • Schramm’s Orchards

    09-10-2021

    I’d like to talk a little about the orchard.  We are going to begin letting people get a look at what we are doing there. We are asking people to …Read More

  • The Heart of Darkness Batch 9 Release Details

    03-12-2021

    The Heart of Darkness is our capstone mead, made from hand-harvested estate fruit grown by the Schramm’s. The cherries are of the Schaarbeek variety, an intensely flavorful, European Morello type. …Read More

  • Winemakers

    01-07-2016

    There is a lot that we admire about the wine world. This is not to say that we do not admire the beer world deeply, or that we do not …Read More