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September is National Honey Month

Kauai honey bees getting drunk on honey. Daniel Lane photo

Kauai honey bees getting drunk on honey. Daniel Lane photo

September is National Honey Month, so it’s the perfect time to celebrate one of nature’s simplest pleasures. It’s hard to imagine anything more pure and natural than one-ingredient honey. Produced by bees from the nectar of plants and flowers, honey essentially flows from hive to the table. With more than 300  honey varietals found in the United States, all with a unique color and flavor, you are sure to find a honey varietal you will love. Continue Reading →

Nani Moon Mead Holiday Tasting

Thursday, December 13

Annual Holiday Tasting, 6 to 9 p.m., Free

(from left) Kauai vanilla beans, mountain apple, ginger and cacao beans. Daniel Lane photo

(from left) Kauai vanilla beans, mountain apple, ginger and cacao beans. Daniel Lane photo

The Fourth Annual Holiday Tasting at Nani Moon Mead allows you to celebrate the season with a tasting of the Nani Moon Mead collection, and enjoy pupus especially paired to the honey wine. Gift baskets, gift wrapped bottles and wine shippers will be available.

Pupu and Paring menu includes: Continue Reading →

Winter Sun Margarita

Winter Sun Margarita

Margarita made with Winter Sun Mead. Daniel Lane photo

Margarita made with Winter Sun Mead. Daniel Lane photo

Guests on our Kauai culinary tour got to know local mead maker, Stephanie Krieger. As the owner of Nani Moon Mead, she closed the shop, and gave us an exclusive tour and tasting. She also had a little surprise for us all, and taught us how to make a cocktail with her Winter Sun Mead—a margarita no less. She gave everyone the recipe, and I’m sharing it here with you. This is one tasty margarita, but be careful, it goes down really easy! Continue Reading →

Nani Moon Mead Goes Straight for the Source

Stephanie Krieger of Nani Moon Mead. Daniel Lane photo

Stephanie Krieger of Nani Moon Mead. Daniel Lane photo

“Last January, one of my chief honey suppliers said they weren’t going to wholesale to me any more,” says Stephanie Krieger, the president and creative life force behind Nani Moon Mead. “Our honey demands are 30 to 40 gallons a month, and this was out of the blue. I took a walk and realized I needed to start focusing on hive acquisition.”

Mead, a wine made by fermenting honey and water, has been traced to 7000 BC in Northern China, and was a part of the rituals of the Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. The word honeymoon is derived from the practice of newlyweds drinking mead for one month (a moon) after the wedding to promote fertility and prosperity. Continue Reading →

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