Golden Coast Mead, est. 2010. We endeavor to innovate varieties and flavors of mead that have never been made before. Meads that are clean and interesting and delightful. We’ve won silvers, golds, double golds and best in shows for our meads from some big competitions. The US Honey Board called our first commercial Sour Mead one of the top 20 honey based alcohols of all time.
We make meads that are an epic balance of tart and sweet, complex and quaffable. Drinking our mead is a delightful experience - full flavored, lots of complexity, and they leave your body feeling different than most other alcoholic beverages. We focus on three core traditional meads, dry, sweet and sour (tart, really). Just regenerative organic honey, water and fermentation in those ones. Then, we innovate. We make hopped meads, coffee meads, triple chili meads… we take ancient recipes and interpret them through our lens. We work with other to develop unique varities of mead that they want to see made real. You get the idea.
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olden Coast Mead, est. 2010. We endeavor to innovate varieties and flavors of mead that have never been made before. Meads that are clean and interesting and delightful. We’ve won silvers, golds, double golds and best in shows for our meads from some big competitions. The US Honey Board called our first commercial Sour Mead one of the top 20 honey based alcohols of all time.
We make meads that are an epic balance of tart and sweet, complex and quaffable. Drinking our mead is a delightful experience - full flavored, lots of complexity, and they leave your body feeling different than most other alcoholic beverages. We focus on three core traditional meads, dry, sweet and sour (tart, really). Just regenerative organic honey, water and fermentation in those ones. Then, we innovate. We make hopped meads, coffee meads, triple chili meads… we take ancient recipes and interpret them through our lens. We work with other to develop unique varities of mead that they want to see made real. You get the idea.
Founded2010
LocationOceanside, CA, United States
Tasting RoomYes
SpecialtiesSustainability-Focused
StylesTraditional Mead, Bochet Mead, Sparkling Mead and 3 more
Intentionally produced or fermented to have a tart, acidic profile.
Traditional Mead
Honey, water, and yeast only. No added flavors.
Dry Mead
Mead with little to no residual sugar, resulting in a crisp, non-sweet finish where acidity, tannin, and honey aromatics are more prominent than sweetness.
Sweet
Mead with clear residual sugar presence, where sweetness is a defining sensory characteristic of the drinking experience.
Sparkling Mead
Mead that is intentionally carbonated, either through secondary fermentation or forced carbonation.
Bochet Mead
Mead made using caramelized or burnt honey that is heated prior to fermentation, producing deep toffee, molasses, and roasted sugar notes.
Sustainability-Focused
Prioritizes organic honey, sustainable beekeeping practices, and minimal-intervention production.
Honey Varietals
Clover
Light, clean, sweet, vanilla-like softness, extremely neutral base honey