Nottingham Nectar

Syttende Mai Festival of Stoughton, WI knows what to do. Leave the Miller Lite on the shelf and get rowdy with every session mead you can get your hands on!

Sold out in Stoughton! Well played and thank you!

Sun’s out, gun’s out, mead edition! 🐝🍒🕶️

Psssst….. look what’s back…….

Nottingham Nectar

Head to Total Wine & More (Madison) this afternoon between 1-4pm to sample the whole lineup of Nottingham Nectar Meads!

Head over to Total Wine & More in Brookfield from 1-4pm today to get your hands on Nottingham Nectar samples and take home your favorites!

There's little better than watching the snow fall with a mead in your hand. We've got two opportunities to get your hands on samples this weekend! Ash is slinging samples at Total Wine & More (Madison) from 4-7pm TONIGHT and Total Wine & More (Greenfield) tomorrow from 12-3pm.

We never doubted it!

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Hey Manitowoc! Head over to Sabbatical Brewing Co. for your mead fix this weekend! It goes down really well with this windy, cold weather 🌬🥃🐝

be our guest🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

we loaded up on a slew of new guest options, expanding our offerings into new horizons… check it out 👀

ciders
• Road Rash • Sociable Cider Werks
• Door County Cherry • Restoration Cider Co.
meads
• Stranger Bings • Crafted Artisan Meadery
• Sagas & Serenades • Nottingham Nectar

non-alcoholic beer
• Orange Peel Wit • Untitled Art
• Watermelon Gose • Untitled Art
• S’mores Dark Brew • Untitled Art

🍻taps are flowing until 11p tonight

🎻live music with River Valley Rangers presented by Music Without Boundaries Saturday at 7p

Mead, fun for everyone!

The bees responsible for Nottingham Nectar are headed south for the winter! We're proud to work with the wonderful and thoughtful honeybee caretakers at LB Werks!

With the changing of the weather the bees are heading to Texas. Thanks for the display of friendship with our bees being place on your land at home up north! We will bee seeing our Texas friends in the coming weeks.

Learn more about the local mead scene from Edible Madison! We would love for Madison to become a premiere mead destination, and are thrilled to be amongst the amazing company like Bos Mead Hall, Mershon's Cidery, Brix Cider, and Kindred Spirits Meadery.

Jessica nailed the tasting notes on our flagship mead, Bonfires & Battlecries: “Effervescent, delicate and semi-dry. Floral apple impression gives way to a honey glazed croissant character with hints of golden raisin, daisy and burnt sugar, yet the whole thing is so crisp and refreshing it is easy drinking.”

Check us out, check out our mead friends, and let’s make mead part of the stories we share!

Modern Mead in Madison Edible Madison focuses on Southern Wisconsin's food and agri-culture

The Nottingham Nectar apparel sale has been so popular, we extended it a day! Save $5 on each shirt you buy, through the rest of today! We ship same day with recycled packaging 🐝🌎🐝

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Head over to Brennan's Market from 12-2pm today! Ash will be pouring samples and helping you find the right varieties for you!

Happy Mabon!

Remember that time we outsold Coors and Miller at Syttende Mai in Stoughton? That was a thrilling feeling, being a busy mead bee in a world of beers.

But hang on to your happy pants folks because this one is chock full of love and humbling news!

If you hung out with Nottingham Nectar and Restoration Cider at the Thirsty Troll Brewfest this past week, you know we were in the company of legendary brands and incredible products. You also know we were the merry bunch who yelled “Gemstone!” and gave a kilted dancing twirl every time someone voted for us as “Best Brewery (Fermenter).”

Well, the tallies are in and we took home the prize! We can’t thank enough the 1,500+ folks who showed up and tried our sparkling session meads, the vast majority of whom had never heard of nor tried mead before. We salute your bravery in taking a risk on a scary unknown “mead” word! We are honored that you fell in love with it.

Final note, if you don’t want to believe us that our sparkling session meads are top notch, I hope you’ll believe the thousands of people who’ve given it a shot and love it. Give us a shot, let us become part of the stories you share.

It's time to announce this year's Best Brewer! Attendees voted for their favorite brewer, and this year's favorite by a long shot was Nottingham Nectar! Congratulations and thank you for joining us at our 20th Annual Thirsty Troll Brew Fest! 🍻

Alright, Saturday’s math. Take one of the most delicious ciders in the country and add the team up with the best new beverage you haven’t tried yet. Now multiply that with a huge crowd of awesome Thirsty Trolls combined with 30 other incredible breweries across the midwest.

What do you get?

Heaping doses of rowdy good times and gratitude.

Nottingham Nectar and Restoration Cider Co. were thrilled to participate at the 20th Annual Thirsty Troll Brew Fest in Mt Horeb. We were stoked to sling sparkling session mead and cider to over 1000 fantastic folk, and we were humbled by the outpouring of unexpected surprise and love for our products.

The majority had never heard of or tried mead before in their lives. The majority also left with Nottingham Nectar as their new favorite alcoholic beverage. That’s huge and we feel every morsel of gratitude and excitement!

So thank you to Thirsty Troll for having us, for all the participants and sponsors that made it happen, and for the eager electricity of our sparkling session mead’s future! Skål!

If you haven’t been to Skal Public House yet, you have a lot to look forward to 🔥

It’s Friday and it’s worth celebrating. If you’re in or near Madison, head to Brennan's Market for your mead fix! Ash will be answering all your mead questions and handing out samples from 4-6pm!

If you’re near Mt Horeb, head to Skal Public House to meet Patrick for the Pre-Thirsty Troll Party with Nottingham Nectar! Patrick is pouring all four flavors from 6:30-8pm

Stevens Point! Caravan Wine Shop is having a mead tasting of many brands including Nottingham Nectar tonight, from 5-7pm. Tag your Point friends and tell them to head over soon!

Caravan Wine Shop Through wine we travel.

While we don’t have a brick and mortar place to participate in Old Fashioned Week with the rest of Madison this year, we do have a killer Old Fashioned recipe for you to try at home! Try the Old Gods Old Fashioned and let us know what you think!

2 oz brandy
4 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 blood orange slice
2 Luxardo cherries
1 tsp brown sugar
Nottingham Nectar’s Hexes and Hijinx
Ice

Combine blood orange slice, cherries, brown sugar, bitters, and dash of Hexes and Hijinx in an old fashioned glass. Muddle together while avoiding smashing the orange peel to bits. Focus the muddling on the fruit and sugar. Add brandy, ice, and fill the glass with Hexes and Hijinx. Pour into a shaker and back into old fashioned glass to mix. Add cherry and orange spear to garnish!

Spotted this friendly pollinator on some Mexican sunflowers yesterday! That cheese puff looking leg sack is the corbicula ( ), or pollen basket. Pollen is collected and stored in the basket for safe transit home!

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Find Us Friday! A true Madison staple, Trixie's Liquor Store is one of the friendliest liquor stores in the area! They've got loads of micro beer, wine, and Nottingham Nectar!

Every time a CrossFitter thinks they’re drinking clean with a beer or hard seltzer, a barbell dies. Try mead, nature’s cleanest and most refreshing alcoholic beverage. Nottingham Nectar is Madison-based and made with all local ingredients, including honey straight from the hive. Naturally gluten-free, too!

National Mead Day is THREE DAYS AWAY. Do you have your ready to celebrate?

Are you in or passing through Scandinavia, WI? Check out Odin & Freja's Place! We can wait to stop on our next trip north!

HEXES & HIJINX mead has arrived!!!! This flavor, consisting of Door County cherries and wildflower honey, is joining the other three flavors of Sagas & Serenades (strawberry and wildflower honey), Folklore & Fairytales (semi sweet) and Bonfires & Battlecries (semi dry). Come try them all. 🧙‍♂️🐝🧚‍♀️🧌🔥🎶
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! Nook Madison is a family owned and operated restaurant, and a deep expression of who they are: adventurous, whimsical, and a little eccentric. The food is built on quality ingredients, treated respectfully and served artistically. Nook is a communal 12 seat dining room with no barriers - literally. There are no walls between the chef and the guest. The dining room is very much a part of the kitchen, giving diners an experience to embrace and remember. And they serve Nottingham Nectar!

As a company also built with adventure, whimsy, and shared experiences in mind, we look forward to getting a reservation there in the coming months.

Nothing quite like a Sagas and Serenades on a hot evening. We love still meads, but the bubbles and strawberries of Sagas offer much needed refreshment from the heat!

Looking for drink recipes? We’ve got you covered! Check out the Cast of Characters section of our website to pick out a new recipe. Have your own? We’d love to try it!

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Long weekend ahead! Get your mead on by finding a location that carries Nottingham Nectar near you.

Where To Find Nottingham Nectar – Nottingham Nectar Where To Find Nottingham Nectar Hey Wisconsin, we’re honored to bring our delicious meads to you! During the transition from Colony Nectar to Nottingham Nectar, you may still see a few lingering bottles of Colony. Don’t worry! Nottingham Nectar will continue taking the place of Colony as Colony ...

Nottingham Nectar is all about honoring the land and appreciating the hard-working folks who make incredible offerings for us to enjoy.

So I'd be remiss if we didn't take a moment to recognize the fantastic Wisconsin businesses that made our charcuterie night such a hit! So go buy and/or follow these amazing contributions to the proudly made in Wisconsin scene:

Odonata Woodworks provided the incredible custom black walnut boards. Seriously everybody, from van build outs to standing desks, wood lanterns to dish trays; Katie at Odonata has some serious skill and whimsy. If you missed the tasting but gotta get your hands on the boards, we've got a few available of each on the website!

Sartori Cheese and Carr Valley Cheese. Iconic, flavorful, and boldly decadent choice cheeses worthy of fine pairings!

Driftless Provisions. The intricate flavors of spices, meats, and herbs are a show off and show stopper to taste buds.

Nutkrack, Potter's Crackers, Brennan's Market. Madison representing in delicious candied pecans, organic crackers o' amazement, and a fantabulous market dedicated to quality foods.

I appreciate what all of these companies do and how they put "Made in Wisconsin" on the map!

Gratitude post for Garth's Brew Bar and all the fantastical people I (Patrick) got to meet on Thursday night.

It was a sold out full house with a wonderful group, some new to Nottingham Nectar, some already avid fans!

When discussing the pairing, we made mention of how you can bring flavors and tastes back to memories, stories, or visuals that evoke imagination. This did not disappoint in people spending time relaxing with us, like a couple sharing how our Folklore and Fairytales paired with the Sartori Cheese BellaVitano brought back memories of the first date they went on.

Truly, thank you to all who decided to spend their Thursday with us; it was another wonderful contribution to the stories we share.

Happy Pollinator Week! If you’ve been looking for more ways to support the pollinators in your area, check out this helpful Pollinator Week Toolkit PDF from The Pollinator Partnership!

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Our mead and charcuterie pairing is officially SOLD OUT! We’re so excited to see you Thursday! Check your inboxes tomorrow for an email with all the details.

A week from today! Even the charcuterie boards for the Garth's Brew Bar charcuterie/mead pairing are basking in the hard work of the bees, getting finished off with a beeswax mixture. We’ve only got 9 spots left for the mead and charcuterie pairing, so grab yours now!!

Boards will be featuring the best of Wisconsin goodies from Brennan's Market, Driftless Provisions, Sartori Cheese, Carr Valley Cheese, Potter's Crackers, and Nutkrack, all expertly paired with Nottingham Nectar’s four mead varieties.

https://www.nottinghamnectar.com/product/garths-mead-and-charcuterie-pairing/