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
Tria Taproom [Foobooz]