Update 11/21/24
✨ WE’RE BACK! ✨
After 8 long weeks of being closed due to the devastating floods from Hurricane Helene, we’re thrilled to announce that potable water has been restored to the area and our tasting room is OPEN once again! We’ve missed serving you and sharing our ciders and meads, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome you back.
We’re open during our normal hours, ready to pour your favorite drinks and reconnect with the community that means so much to us.
Thank you for the incredible support, encouragement, and patience you’ve shown during this time—it’s truly kept us going. While we’re excited to reopen, the journey isn’t over yet. We’re still working to recover from the damages and make up for the lost income, and despite applying for over a dozen grants, we haven’t received funding from any sources yet. Every visit, every sip, and every share helps us rebuild stronger.
Stop by, raise a glass, and let’s celebrate the next chapter together. 🍻
Taproom hours:
Thursday and Friday 2-7 PM
Saturday 1-7
Sunday 1-6
Update 10/22/24
On Friday, September 27, our facility sustained damage from Hurricane Helene. As a result, we are temporarily closed. Thank you to everyone who has shown us support. We deeply appreciate it.
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MEAD
mjöd, med, mede, medovina
WHAT IS MEAD? Mead is a fermented honey beverage (sometimes called honey wine). There are many varieties, including melomel, which is fruit mead, metheglin which is herb mead, acerglyn, or mead made with maple syrup and pyment, which is mead fermented with grapes. The meads we make and serve on draft are hydromels and are lower in alcohol (6-8%) than traditional meads.
CIDER
cidre, sidra, apfelwein, cyder
WHAT IS CIDER? Cider is fermented apple juice (sometimes called apple wine). Historically, “cider” always meant fermented (alcoholic) apple juice, and only during prohibition in the US was the term misappropriated to signify non-alcoholic juice.
Black Mountain Cider + Mead crafts dry cider and session mead from local apples and honey in an old furniture factory nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC. Our ciders and meads harmonize fresh flavors with traditional wisdom. We ferment cider in small batches blended from heirloom apples harvested throughout the season to make cider that is real, never filtered, pasteurized, or tainted. With mead, we focus on lower-gravity sessionable meads (also called hydromels), which are often less sweet and more hospitable than traditional, higher-gravity meads. Our approach to this oldest of beverages is steeped in tradition but guided by modern sensibilities, inspiring us to combine the choicest local honey with flavors like coffee, almond, pistachio, sweet potato, and beet to produce craft beverages that stand alone in a crowding market. Slake your thirst with our ciders and meads to discover something that is at once old and new.
