A bottle of Sweet Baby Ginger from Honeytree Meadery placed next to a glass that is being filled by another bottle poured from above it.

I like the occasional sweet cocktail as much as the next person, but the sweet edge on the flavor profile of most meads I have tried has kept me from clicking with the drink. That is, until a chance encounter with Honeytree’s Sweet Baby Ginger. The East Side meadery uses the characteristic warm zing of ginger root, candied in house, to complement and tame the sugary notes of the fermented honey in this brew. This makes it as quaffable as my favorite lagers — and gets me interested in what else the world of mead has to offer.

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