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Brewer / Production Manager Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co. Job Title: Brewer / Production Manager Brewer / Production Manager Role location: Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co, Caldicot, South Wales, NP26 5PR Starting salary: £26,000 - £28,000 p.a. / depending on experience Days: Full time Monday - Friday Closing Date: 1st March 2024   Company background Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co (Previously Wye Valley Meadery) was started in 2018 by brothers Matt and Kit Newell. We began cuckoo brewing in the corner of a larger brewery before taking over that space in 2020, then relocating to a bigger...

A fantastic way to drink our delicious range of sparkling meads is by combining them with your other favourite flavours to create fabulous sparkling mead cocktails!  We’ve tried a lot of different combinations, but nothing has come close to those created by the team at The Clockwork Rose in Bristol.  If you’re lucky enough to have been to the Clockwork Rose before, you might have heard about the mysterious Captain and his tales of the ocean.  Or, more likely, you’ll have sipped your way through their carefully curated cocktail list whilst admiring the fantastic decor!  The mixologists at the Clockwork...

Picture this: a delicious new mead crafted with care, passion, and a touch of global goodness. We're thrilled to announce the launch of our latest creation – Zambian Honey Traditional Mead in collaboration with Bees for Development.

Our Wye Valley Meadery Traditional Mead has been awarded the top Great Taste accolade for Wales for 2023! Announced on Monday 11 September at a ceremony held at Battersea Arts Centre attended by food industry experts, the Great Taste Golden Fork trophy is the grand finale of the world’s largest food and drink accreditation scheme based entirely on taste. Rising to the top of hundreds of other entries from Wales, our “softly sweet and nuanced, rounded and complex” Traditional Mead was celebrated as the best tasting product in its country at the UK awards ceremony, dubbed the ‘Oscars’ of the...