Met a bunch of people yesterday when I stopped by Bardic Wells meadery in Whitehall Michigan. I talked with Steve, the owner, for a while about mead, cider, and brewing before being joined by Abbey, Emily, and Kyle, who were in the area for a friend's wedding. We were later joined by Steve's friend Abbey (yup, two Abbeys) who is an artist and works as a welder at founder's brewing, as well as Mary and Tharon of the tipsy gypsy (their sailboat/home). They had just sailed into Muskegon from father north and were stopping in for a visit. Steve is a very fun guy who had an obvious passion for creating excellent meads and cysers (Bardic Wells produces it's own honey for the mead), yet is very down to earth and a real jokester. My two favorite meads were root fruit (mead with carrot, Apple, and ginger) and whipper snapper (a ginger cyser). Really great stuff, definitely worth tracking down if you're in Michigan. I ended up staying much longer than I had originally planned, so I had to really ride hard to Muskegon from Whitehall to catch my ferry. Totally worth it, though.