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The History of Mead - Episode 3

Season 1, Ep. 3

Join us on the third episode of The Mead Podcast, in this episode Ted and Tom talk about the history of mead! We start off with some fascinating facts from Tom about the rich history of mead, we then go into detail with the brewery team about brewing a historic type of mead called a metheglin which in known to have healing properties. Be sure to send us in some questions for our Q&A later this season on podcast@gosnells.co.uk.

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