Cloud City Modern Mead

06/13/2026

New shirt design. What color would look best behind this?

06/01/2026

A magazine interviewer recently asked us what "modern mead" is. Our founder's response:

Mead is the oldest fermented beverage known to man. So old that it's hard to know its origins or a lot of the history that brought us to where we are now. Many recipes were handed down for centuries but with the advent of microbiology, pasteurization, etc, brewers had a whole new scientific approach to fermentation.
Still, in more recent history, mead has been viewed as "honey wine", often made to be a heavy, very sweet, high alcohol libation, largely consumed on special occasions. In the last 20 years or so, craft beer brewers have started making mead more akin to cider than beer or wine. And of course brewers will push limits of what's possible. Adding anything from powdered cream cheese, to green chilies, to peanut butter and jelly. (All ingredients that have gone into Cloud City meads) Cocktail or dessert inspired meads that your old-world-mead making grandfather would never recognize as "honey wine".
We use the term "Modern" to describe meads that are made using all the cutting edge equipment but more importantly, an inventive and curious ambition to make something no one has ever tasted before.
We make mead from 5% to 15%abv, but a simple answer to what modern mead is: lower ABV, carbonated, usually with a lot of unfermented fruit. All made with an adventurous spirit.
We don't know any vikings so we make mead for the modern consumer and we hope it suits their sophisticated pallate.
Cheers.

05/22/2026

We are celebrating 100 five star Google reviews this weekend by offering 100 cents off all pours, all weekend, including flights. We strive to offer the best mead in the world at an affordable price, poured with a smile. Come find out why we currently have the highest Google rating of any meadery in the country, and get a dollar off while you're at it..
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05/15/2026

We have been pushing what's possible with the expression of thiols from honey and hops for years. Now we have gone straight to the source of the dankness for terpene extracts. This company knows what's up.
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05/14/2026

We are incredibly excited & proud to offer the first EVER cannabis terpene infused mead. Yes, the very first of its kind in the world!
There are no cannabinoids in this. Only the terpenes (aroma compounds) found in a specific strain, "pineapple express". Hawaiian honey is the perfect companion to the eyebrow raising aromas found in this fruity strain of power-flower. Super light, tropical, and refreshing. Dank aroma that follows through gently in the flavor.
Pineapple terpenes adding to the experience in a juicy way. Off-dry and mind-blowing. 6.9%abv

05/11/2026

Come by your favorite liquor store in Leadville for a taste of the goods. We will be pouring 4 of the 6 modern meads they have in stock.

04/23/2026

Hey mead lovers! This fella TK is on a mission to evaluate 500 meads. Unfortunately we dropped the ball on getting him any of our cans before today.
Tonight we will be on, chatting with TK about what is new at the world's highest elevation meadery and what it means to produce modern mead in an evolving industry. Tune to his Instagram at 8pm est. ✌️😎🍻

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