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aka Our Tasting Room
FITZGIBBON MEADERY
536 Lawrence Avenue
Ellwood City, PA 16117
MON: Closed
TUES: Closed
WED: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
THUR: 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FRI: 2:00 PM- 8:00 PM
SAT: Noon - 8:00 PM
SUN: Closed
We're a micro winery based in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania that specializes in Meads and Country (Fruit) Wines.
As Ellwood City's only Meadery, we've taken it upon ourselves to introduce our corner of Western Pennsylvania to the wonderful beverage that is Mead.
Basically, mead is the combination of honey, water, and yeast that has fermented into an alcoholic drink, a honey wine. But it is much more complicated than that. You can make mead with all kinds of spices and fruits (including grapes) in a multitude of combinations.
Many people think that mead must be cloyingly sweet. But just like wine, mead can have a wide range of flavors and sweetness. While many of our meads are on the sweet end of the scale, we do carry three dry meads and two semi-sweet meads.
Mead features prominently in Norse and Viking mythology but was common among other cultures, including the Greeks and Egyptians. Many historians feel that Mead in some form is the oldest know alcohol in the world.
Country wines are akin to the usual grape wines except that they contain no grapes and instead use some other fruit as the basis for the fermentation. This includes apple, raspberry, blueberry and rhubarb wines, to name a few. We offer some country wines but have chosen to stay out of the grape wine business since there are already plenty of local places that do it well.
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We were given an opportunity to enter one of our meads into the Mead Institute's 2024 US Mead Open and we made the most of it. The Mead Open is a random head to head competition judged by experts in the field. Not only did Sigrid, our Elderberry Mead, manage to score more than 90 points (which I'm told is noteworthy) but it managed to make it all the way to the Semi-Finals before being eliminated. We are honored to have made it that far against some of the best Mead makers in the nation. Thanks go to the Mead Institute and Alyson Schramm Naeger for hosting the competition. |
We are thrilled to announce that we have received the Best of Show award at the Virginia Mead Cup for our Traditional Sweet Mead, Kenny, as well as several other awards. The Virginia Mead Cup, hosted by Atheling Meadworks in Roanoke, recently held its second Commercial Competition. We are incredibly proud to have won several medals, including the Best of Show, and we can't wait to share the news.
Here's what we brought home from the event:
We would like to express our gratitude to Steve Ausband and Atheling Meadworks for hosting the competition, especially during the challenging weather related to Helene.
AXE THROWING COMES TO FITZGIBBON MEADERY
We are happy to announce that we will be opening our axe throwing lanes to the public starting December 27th.
We have two lanes that can be rented for 2 to 8 people in one or two hour blocks and a viewing room where your friends can watch and heckle while they sip their mead.
You can book your slot now on our website or call us at 724-201-9694. Walk-ins are accepted only if there is a free lane.
For more information, visit our Axe Throwing Page or stop in and see us.