Recipes & Food Pairings

There really is no hard and fast list of “do's and don'ts” about pairing mead with a particular meal. After all, the most important question is “Do you enjoy the wine and food that you are eating?” That said, we do have some suggestions...

Bed of Roses

Serve over ice with fresh fruit or mix with champagne or seltzer water. Pair with salty or oily dishes, intense flavors, strong cheeses, creamy desserts, dark chocolate or spicy dishes. Our most exotic beverage to go with your romantic evenings. This is the tailor-made wine for Valentine's Day.

Recipe: White Sangria
1 Bottle Bed of Roses mead
1 shot white rum
1 Lemon cut into wedges
2 Tbsp sugar
1 pound peaches, pitted and sliced
3/4 cup seedless green grapes, halved
3/4 cup pineapple
2 cups ginger ale
In a large pitcher, combine Bed of Roses, rum, and sugar. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into
the mix and toss in lemon wedges (excluding seeds). Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add sliced
peaches, green grapes, and pineapple.  Refrigerate sangria until well chilled, at least 2 hours, or
overnight to blend flavors.  Add ginger ale just before serving. Serve over ice. 

    From our way-back-machine... 2007 !

It’s official. The Four Quarters InterFaith Sanctuary has been granted a Pennsylvania Limited Winery License, and is now one of the very few churches in this country licensed to brew. I’m taking my hobby of Mead brewing and making it my vocation, my special niche within The Community of Service at Four Quarters.

Many of you know what Mead is, but may not know about its history. Mead is agreed to be the oldest alcoholic drink, given that honey was in use as a foodstuff before the domestication of grain or grapes, and given the classic human predilection to brew from any sugar source available. The oldest written documentation for Mead is from the island of Crete, during the Greek Classic Age. The Greeks loved their Mead, and elevated it in status to be the “Ambrosia” of their Gods of Olympus. Being drunk, in Greek, meant being “honey-intoxicated.” In Northern Europe Mead had a beloved home among pre-Christian Slavic, Celtic and Scandinavian peoples, where Mead was again extolled as the preferred “Drink of the Gods,” and honored libation of the warrior hero. Thus Mead is deeply woven into the mythic culture of these “Pagan” peoples and has been passed down in legend to our own times.