History of a Dream: A New Chapter Begins

(Fourth part of four.)

As a gift to myself on my twenty-seventh birthday, I signed the papers that incorporated the Wotan's Wisdom Meadery. And while the company had technically and legally existed before that instant, it was then, as I stood with the pen in my hand and the ink still wet on the page, that the Wotan's Wisdom Meadery became real in my mind. I was changed in my preceptions, and in that instant, from a guy with a couple of get-by jobs and some interesting hobbies into a professional and careered mazer. Mildly put, it was a bit of a rush.

No longer would my dedication to flavorful and high quality product go rewarded only by the admiration and thanks of my close friends and family. No longer would mine be the only mind thinking up tasty derivations to try in the carboys. No longer would I be the only person giving my mead to people as a yuletide gift.  And more than all this, my desire to spend my energies and talents towards productive ends would be sated.

It had only been in the last year that things had come so quickly to this juncture.  I'd spent years doing the research.  I'd spent further years building the talents and experience with my experiments and my carboys.  All the work, all the time, all the money for equipment and ingredients had gone towards building something in me that could be one very productive half of a mead business... specifically, the mead half.  It was only after becoming friends with Ian, who had spent those same years working as a para-legal, dealing with bureaucracies, and learning at the proverbial feet of a master, that both halves of the mead business were joined.

The only part of this story left untold is what happens next... and that's because what happens next is happening now.  This blog will cover the minutia of our moving forward into the future as it happens, showing the ups and downs, joys and pains of how my long held dream of making mead is actualized.  It is my most sincere hope that both this story, and my mead, can make you happy in the years to come.