Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery Hosts Unique Honey and Mead Tasting

Chicago’s go-to honey expert and award-winning cookbook author, Chef Carrie Schloss will be hosting a Honey and Mead Tasting event on March 31, 2019 at The Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery, 9030 S. Hermitage Ave, Chicago IL from 11:30 – 1:30 pm. The unique food and mead tasting event will feature a specialty honey tasting, delicious food samplings from Chef Carrie’s award-winning cookbook The Asheville Bee Charmer: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by 28 Honey Varietals and Blends, cookbook signing, a flight of Chicago’s finest meads and meadery tour.

“There are thousands of honey varietals worldwide. Each has a unique flavor profile from smell and taste, to viscosity, and level of sweetness,” says Chef Carrie. “It’s interesting to see how different a dish or drink can taste depending on what type of honey you use.” Chef Carrie will be presenting a variety of honey pairings at the event allowing attendees to explore the complex flavor profiles for themselves.

For more than two decades, Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery has been a fixture in Chicago, creating wine and mead using locally produced ingredients. “Mead is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey with yeast. Mead is not a beer, wine, or spirit in the normal sense; it is its own class of alcohol, and it is believed to be the oldest alcoholic beverage” explains Greg Fischer, Owner of Wild Blossom Meadery and beekeeping expert.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. To purchase tickets or for additional information about the event visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/2377247032559748/

Attendees are invited to arrive early and attend a LIVE broadcast of The Mike Nowak Show with Peggy Malecki, airing 9am-11am, listen LIVE Sundays on WCGO 1590 AM or watch on Facebook LIVE @TheMikeNowakShow. For more information visit: https://mikenowak.net.

Chef Carrie Schloss is a personal chef, culinary consultant and author of the award-winning cookbook, The Asheville Bee Charmer: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by 28 Honey Varietals and Blends. Her cookbook features 130 recipes dedicated to honey and was written with the home cook in mind. Chef Carrie is passionate about cooking with honey, developing recipes and educating the home cook. Chef Carrie has developed recipes for Let’s Dish cooking show on the Live Well Network. For the past six years, she has taught cooking classes at The Kids’ Table, Now We’re Cookin’, and nonprofit organizations such as Common Threads, Purple Asparagus, and Chicago Lights Urban Farm. She is the recipient of the 2017 Cookbook of the Year Award by the Midwest Independent Publishing Association and lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery is the first winery in Chicago with more than 30 years of wine making experience and the only producer of mead on the Northern Illinois Wine Trail. The meads produced at Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery are among the most sustainable produced beverages in the world. Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery uses their own bees’ honey to produce mead.