do as you would have others do for you

[brew as you would]

Golden Rule Mead exists because of the human drive for creative expression. We want to make something we love, and we love making that which surprises and delights those around us. The Golden Rule necessitates that we constantly practice our trade with respect - for our home and all that lives on it. We will constantly seek to refine our practices to do our part in reducing and balancing out what damage has already been done, and to share that knowledge and vision with our peers. We hope that our work gives people another good reason to come together, to respect and inspire each other and themselves.

We brew our mead right at home in Middlebury, Vermont. Each of our meads starts with 100% Vermont-origin raw honey, and we do everything we can to source fruits, herbs, spices, and vegetables from farms around the state. We ferment with wild mixed cultures that we propagate in-house, and use bran from locally grown organic rice as a yeast nutrient. We ferment in stainless steel and occasionally glass, using external heating pads to maintain viable fermentation temperatures during the winter. We don’t pasteurize or filter our meads and use no fining agents, sulfites, or synthetic fermentation aids at any point in our process. We currently rack all of our meads into steel kegs for cellaring, which we also use for carbonating and bottling.

You can find a (hopefully) up-to-date list of the meads available in our Middlebury tasting room on our Current Offerings page. To learn more about our ingredients’ origins and their producers, please visit our Community page. You can find tasting room hours and a list of our retail and restaurant partners on our Find Us page.