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No Longer in Beer's Shadow, Honey-Based Mead Is Making a Sweet Comeback

WUSF | By Dalia Colon
Published October 10, 2019 at 7:00 AM EDT

For the next several weeks, WUSF News and The Zest podcast are collaborating on a special reporting project on honey bees. 

SPECIAL REPORT: The Buzz On Florida's Honey BeesMead, an alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey, is growing in popularity because of things like craft beer, Harry Potter books and the Games of Thrones craze. Brian Wing of St. Petersburg’s Green Bench Mead & Cider says the brewery’s small-batch mead is the most “local” thing you can drink, made with honey from Green Bench’s rooftop beehives. 

You can find more of our honey bee stories and photos at wusf.org/honeybees. 

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The Darkest Timeline is made with orange blossom honey, fresh black currant, blackberry and raspberry.
Green Bench Mead & Cider /
The Darkest Timeline is made with orange blossom honey, fresh black currant, blackberry and raspberry.

Brian Wing of Green Bench Mead & Cider says mead is the most local beverage you can drink.
Dalia Colón /
Brian Wing of Green Bench Mead & Cider says mead is the most local beverage you can drink.
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Dalia Colón is excited to return to WUSF as producer of the Zest podcast. From 2010 to 2014, Dalia covered health and features for WUSF. Before that, she was a staff reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and Cleveland Magazine.
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