The Beginning…

The Lancashire Mead Company is husband and wife team Gordon Baron and Ann Farrell. In 2009, Gordon, fed up of not being able to buy pure mead (not honeyed wines), began brewing mead in his mum’s garage.

As a Druid, it was hugely important to Gordon to make a mead that was a pure as it could be. He wanted to use it for ritual purposes and many fellow Druids are vegetarian or vegan. Many also have health restricted diets. During this time, he perfected his recipes and experimented with a variety of different honeys – with varying levels of success! In 2012, Gordon met Ann through the local Pagan moot.

At the time, Gordon was a truck driver, working 70+ hours a week and away from home for four or five nights a week. Ann, a teacher, persuaded him to give up his job to follow his dream. Gordon stopped trucking on Good Friday 2013 to concentrate on setting up the company.

 

The Philosophy of our Company…

 

In line with our spiritual beliefs, we wanted to keep our Mead as natural and human as possible. This means, firstly, that the honey we use is raw, unpasteurised, and un-sterilised.

Each bottle is filled, capped and labelled individually and manually. The process and final product is as handmade as is feasibly possible. We only use a hand-held paddle mixer, a pump/filter and a vacuum assisted bottling machine. We keep our carbon footprint as low as possible and do not use energy hungry fermentation temperature control equipment at all. We have replaced all of the lighting in the meadery with energy efficient LED lights which use 75% less electricity than the units we had originally.

What you get from The Lancashire Mead Company is a mead made with the home brewers’ ethics, without the wait or potential failure.

Read more about the technical parts of the process.