Sneaky Meade Winery

03/14/2017

Happy Pi Day from all of us at Sneaky Meade...and by all of us, I mean me.

01/03/2017

Happy New Year! Lots of friendly folks out there call me and send messages asking about my hours and whether I do tastings, so I figured I would remind everyone that this is my hobby and my passion, not a business. And yes, I taste it frequently ;)

10/14/2016

The bees are in trouble—but there are easy things you can do to help.

09/28/2016

Ewwww

Scientists in Belgium turned urine from festival goers into drinkable water for the purposes of making beer. But would you drink it?

09/10/2016

Brewmaster James Costa takes us from malt to pint with this inside look at the beer-making process. Shot 100% on the HERO4® camera from ‪http://GoPro.com. Ge...

08/29/2016

The Chicago Tribune did a test on this newly "discovered" list of the KFC secret 11 herbs and spices, and stated that if you sprinkled MSG on the cooked chicken, it made it taste perfect. I worked at KFC back in the 80's, and there was no sprinkle of MSG, no soaking in buttermilk for 20 minutes, and no resting for 20 minutes after breading. Also, if you add up all the herbs and spices, it's one tablespoon short of a cup, added to two cups of flour. Very expensive chicken breading, but you know I gotta try it :)

Countless recipes have been tried out in the Tribune test kitchen but never one quite like this.

08/12/2016

So it's come to this? Must be for those folks that drink part of a bottle of wine and save the rest for later.

The Master Vintner™ Taster Quartet makes 20 bottles of wine, five of each small batch varietal. Enjoy a diverse lineup of wine in your cellar!

07/28/2016

Diehard cocktail aficionados swear by serving specific drinks in the correct glass. I wonder what they’ll make of the Levitating CUP, a cocktail glass designed to float above a portable base, in seeming defiance of gravity.

07/07/2016

Beer has been around for 500 glorious years, and yet, we still don’t know much about its origin. Sure, we know how it’s made and how to drink more than our doctors recommend, but researchers have always been unclear about where exactly the domesticated hybrid yeast used to make lager came from.

07/06/2016

Need to grow something besides lettuce

A huge vertical farm—where crops are planted, grown, and harvested all with neither sun nor soil—is being built in New Jersey. When it’s finished, it will be the largest one in the world.

06/29/2016

no excuse now...

The iGulu automated home brewery is the Crock-Pot of homemade beer.

06/14/2016

Winemaking is always an exercise in uncertainty. You don’t really know just what the wine will taste like until the very end of the process, which is sometimes decades long. A new technique, however, could help predict what wine will taste like before it’s even made.