Crafted Artisan Meadery: The Ohio Craft Mead Behind Some of Our Best Pours

Not every great mead comes from a Viking hall. Some of the most exciting honey wine being made right now comes from a meadery in Mogadore, Ohio — and it’s one of the two mead brands we’re proudest to carry at The Twisted Vine.

Crafted Artisan Meadery makes modern American craft mead. Their approach is rooted in the same philosophy that drives the best craft breweries — take a traditional product, apply serious technique, and push the flavor possibilities as far as they’ll go. The result is a lineup of session meads, barrel-aged releases, and limited editions that stand alongside anything being produced in the country right now.

Who Is Crafted Artisan Meadery?

Crafted Artisan Meadery is based in Mogadore, Ohio — a small town outside Akron that has quietly become home to one of the most creative meaderies in the United States. Their product lineup spans year-round session meads, limited releases, barrel-aged series, still meads, and imperial strength bottles.

What sets Crafted apart from most meaderies is their commitment to genuinely interesting flavor development. These aren’t honey-flavored novelty drinks. They’re carefully constructed beverages built around the interplay between honey character, fruit additions, oak aging, and fermentation technique. Every product in their lineup has a reason to exist and a flavor story worth telling.

What We Carry at The Twisted Vine

Warhammer

Warhammer is a session cyser — apple mead with blueberry, light oak, and vanilla notes at 6% ABV. A cyser is mead made with apple juice rather than water, combining the gentle sweetness of honey with the crisp tartness of apple. The blueberry and vanilla additions in Warhammer give it a complexity that makes it genuinely hard to put down.

At 6% ABV it’s sessionable — you can enjoy two or three over a game night without it getting away from you. The light oak note gives it a slight sophistication that distinguishes it from fruit-forward ciders. It’s one of the most approachable meads we carry and consistently one of the first things we recommend to people trying mead for the first time.

Best for: Craft beer drinkers, cider fans, first-time mead drinkers.

Dragon Heart Mead

Dragon Heart is one of Crafted’s more distinctive offerings — a mead with character that earns its name. Richer and more complex than Warhammer, Dragon Heart leans into the meadery’s philosophy of pushing flavor development without losing the fundamental honey character that makes mead what it is.

It’s a natural fit for Skillshotz — the name alone belongs at a D&D table, and the pour matches the atmosphere of our game rooms perfectly.

Best for: Players who want something with more body and complexity, fantasy game enthusiasts, anyone who wants a mead that feels like it belongs in the world they’re playing in.

Session Meads — The New Wave of Mead

Crafted Artisan Meadery specializes in session meads — lower-alcohol, often carbonated, highly accessible styles that are driving much of the current mead revival. Session meads are designed to be consumed the way craft beer is consumed — multiple pours over an evening, pairing naturally with food, conversation, and game play.

For a long time mead had an image problem. People assumed it was either sickeningly sweet or impossibly strong. Session meads like Warhammer demolished that assumption. At 6% ABV with crisp fruit character and genuine balance, Warhammer is closer to a great craft cider than the medieval banquet mead most people imagine.

This accessibility is exactly why we carry Crafted at The Twisted Vine. Our guests are here for a 3-4 hour gaming session. They want something interesting to drink that won’t put them to sleep before the final encounter. Session meads hit that target perfectly.

Crafted Artisan Meadery vs Dansk — Two Mead Philosophies

The Twisted Vine carries two mead brands that represent fundamentally different approaches to the same ancient drink.

Dansk is Old World tradition — Danish Viking mead with centuries of Scandinavian heritage behind it. Products like Viking Blod and Odin Skull are rooted in authenticity. These are meads that taste like history.

Crafted Artisan Meadery is New World craft — modern American technique applied to an ancient base. Creative flavor combinations, session-friendly ABVs, and a relentless commitment to quality.

Together they give our guests a genuinely complete picture of what mead is and what it can be. If you want to understand the full range of the drink, order a flight of both and compare. It’s one of the most interesting tasting experiences we offer at The Twisted Vine.

How to Order at The Twisted Vine

Not sure where to start?
Order a mead flight. We offer 2oz and 4oz pours across our mead selection so you can explore before committing to a full glass. Tell our bar staff what you normally drink — craft beer, white wine, cider, cocktails — and we’ll point you to the Crafted mead most likely to connect with you.

Already know what you want?
Ask for Warhammer by name. It’s the most accessible entry point in our Crafted lineup and consistently one of the most ordered meads at the bar.

Want to go deeper?
Ask about Dragon Heart and our current Dansk selection. Between the two brands we can take you from an approachable 6% session mead all the way to a traditional Viking mead with serious heritage behind it.

Visit The Twisted Vine

The Twisted Vine is the themed bar at Skillshotz Gaming in Deerfield Beach. We’re open Tuesday through Friday from 5:30 PM and Saturday through Sunday from 2:00 PM. You don’t need to be playing a game to enjoy the bar — though you’ll probably want to once you’re here.

Find us at 616 SE 10th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33441. Contact us to ask about our current mead selection or what’s on tap this week.

Want to understand mead more broadly before you visit? Start with our complete guide to what mead is — it covers the history, styles, and everything you need to order with confidence.