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Our fun, one hour tour brings visitors on a journey through the history of mead. The stories of mead and honey are thousands of years old, and are intertwined with Ireland's myths and legends. Taste the honey that we use to make our delicious mead. Learn all about the making of mead. Enjoy a guided tasting of this refreshingly different drink with our mead experts. Kinsale Mead Co. is Ireland’s first Meadery in 200 years. We love to share our passion and knowledge of all things mead and honey.
Explore the Making & Tasting of Mead lasts about 1 hour.
Prices start at $30 per person for this Cork experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
The meeting point is Walking - Leave Kinsale Tourist Office right, take a right and right again. Left up Featherbed Lane, first right, in 50m up the steps/ramp, through the gates, past the Post office. Driving - Turn at the Garage, follow the road over the small roundabout, past Lidl, through the gates - free parking.. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in EN.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 4 participants.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Wheelchair accessible Transportation options are wheelchair accessible All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Our tour group decided to visit Kinsale Mead Co as a last minute add on, and I’m so happy we did! Our mead guide was very knowledgeable and funny. We got to taste the best honey I’ve ever had and, of course, delicious mead. It was a delightful afternoon, and a fun way to learn some Irish history.
We took the one hour tour and it was fascinating to hear about the ancient history and folklore surrounding mead, then to see how Kinsale Mead is produced. Heart and soul go into it with this small team and the meads are super tasty too!
Wonderful experience right there just above Kinsale. Cara, our host, led us through the history of mead making in Ireland, how it was forgotten, and how it may Make a comeback in Ireland. All while seeing how it’s made and the opportunity to sample and take some home. Thank you, Cara.
Excellent, very informative and friendly, plus a good product to taste
This was such a fun tour. We heard the history of mead, taste tested some delicious honeys, and saw how they make mead. At the end we tasted several different meads, which were delicious! It was great way to spend some time, and the only place making mead in Ireland!
A human scale distillery, the unique meadery in Ireland. You will discover the Ireland history and myths around mead, with humour and testing. From the bees to the different types of mead they make. To see something else than regular whisky distilleries or breweries! :-D
Fantastic! Zara did a brilliant job introducing the history of not just mead, but how it pertained to Ireland history. We learned so much in an hour! Well done. I didn’t think I liked mead but boy was I wrong. Cheers to company. Everything was thoughtfully done down to murals, historical wall art and tastings.
This was a delightful sensory experience! Zara, our tour guide, was incredible! We tasted fresh, DELICIOUS honey; went on a facility walk-through; learned so much fascinating history about mead and about Ireland; and of course, tasted so many wonderful variations of local mead. We could have finished every bottle, such an impressive product line - literally all winners. Cannot recommend the tour and the mead enough!
Friendly, very informative, engaging and humorous presentation — with great mead to sample! Great job explaining the ancient history and science behind the production of mead. Highly recommend!
Visited Kinsale and this amazing place was not on our list to do. Wow! Am I glad we stopped in and took the tour and tasting. Went mid day during the week and got lucky to have a one on one tour and tasting. Being from the USA and bourbons and whiskeys being so popular it was amazing to learn about the history of mead and the great work this small group of people are doing to revitalize this beverage. Hard decisions were made as we could only leave with 4 bottles. This is a must see.
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explore the Making & Tasting of Mead | 1 hour | 5.0 (192) | $30 | |
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