LoCo Experience #273 | Drink Like a Viking! - The Joy and Journey of Mead with Matt Ackerman

In today’s conversation on The LoCo Experience, I was joined by Matt Ackerman, a Co-Founder of and Brand Ambassador for Meadkrieger Meadery in downtown Loveland, Colorado. Matt developed a taste for mead while exploring his passion for music, and was a semi-professional touring musician for several years before taking on a new challenge - imagining and creating a production meadery and tasting room experience fit for a king - or for a Viking!

Matt shared some interesting stories from his metal-band days, and more interesting was the exploration of the tradition and process of making mead - honey-wine, basically, most popular in the times and lands of the Vikings. Mead is an open palette in many ways, and Matt is continuing to develop his skills by studying Chemical Engineering at CSU. And - you can’t just make the mead, you gotta move it - and so we explored distribution channels, production timelines and staffing, and how to draw people into community after so many patterns were changed by the Covid response.

Also, make sure to stay for Matt’s sampling of our “Crazy Ginger” hot sauce - nordic genes don’t react well to habanero and ghost pepper. It’s a fun time with an interesting guy, so please enjoy my conversation with Matt Ackerman.