Draft Mead Comes to Tria Taproom


Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 14th, Tria Taproom is throwing a “Meadstravaganza.” Starting at noon, the Center City bar will have two meads on tap plus complimentary snacks from Rotisseur and Weckerly’s Ice Cream. Mead, which is a fermented honey drink is rarely spotted around town and even less often on tap. Tria will have a South African mead pouring as well as one from Londonderry, New Hampshire.

The Meads

  • African Msobomvu Chili Mead, Makana Meadery(Grahamstown, South Africa · 12%)   Intense and complex mead aged over indigenous African chili peppers before making the journey from South African to the States while aging in red wine barrels.   $8/5oz
  • Kurt’s Apple Pie Mead, Moonlight Meadery (Londonderry, New Hampshire · 14%) Have your pie and drink it too: an unctuous mead made from NH fresh-pressed apple cider and honey with Madagascar-bourbon vanilla and Vietnamese cinnamon spice. 100 points on ratebeer.com   $8/5oz

The Snacks

  • Complimentary with the Chili Mead: Rotisseur Chicken Banh Mi   pickled red cabbage, cucumber, cilantro, crispy chicken skin, jalapeno and lime
  • Complimentary with the Apple Pie Mead: Weckerly’s Ice Cream Sandwich   burnt sugar apple on caramel oat OR pumpkin butter bourbon on gingersnap

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