After that, a meadery, where they indulged in strong red mead served in containers made of the leaves of bassos trees, curled and sealed with wax to form hollow cones.
1999 — Jon Billman, When We Were Wolves, Random House (1999), →ISBN, page 82:
Our meadery is in Wayne and Robin's basement, where everything is safely hidden from taxes and regulations.
1999 — Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners, Baen (1999), →ISBN, page 394:
"It was Lord Vorkosigan's. He owns the meadery, you know…. […]
He visited the tannery, the slaughterhouse, the mill, the bakery, the butchers, the meadery and the cider press.
2006 — Mike McQuaiade, Insiders' Guide to Bellingham and Mount Baker, Morris Book Publishing (2006), →ISBN, page 49:
[…] not to mention French bakeries, breweries, wine bars, alehouses, and even, as of late 2005, a meadery, one of only four in Washington State. (Remember mead from your high school days of studying Beowulf?)
2008 — Patricia Monaghan, Wineries of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Press (2008), →ISBN, page 177:
People used to come to the Upper Midwest's only dedicated meadery and say, "Huh?" Or perhaps something like, "Oh, yeah, mead, isn't that what Beowulf drank?"
2011 — Cricket McRae, Wined and Died: A Home Crafting Mystery, Midnight Ink (2011), →ISBN, page 38:
Dorothy and her husband started the meadery, but Normal subdivided part of his and build five or six houses to sell.
2012 — Dee Hobshawn-Smith, Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet, TouchWood Editions (2012), →ISBN, page 78:
Cherie optimistically hopes to see an Albertan fruit winery and meadery agritourism route similar to those of the Okanagan Valley and Niagara Peninsula.
