Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co

Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co We are Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co. Honey brewing experts and beekeepers based in South Wales! Open every LAST Saturday of the month for an event
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🍻 Find us at the this weekend! 🌞We're in Bute Park in Cardiff all day Saturday and Sunday, so come say hi to Steve if y...
30/05/2026

🍻 Find us at the this weekend! 🌞

We're in Bute Park in Cardiff all day Saturday and Sunday, so come say hi to Steve if you are coming to the street food festival!

🌞 How do bees keep cool? 🌞With all this hot weather, you might be wondering how bees keep cool when we are all strugglin...
27/05/2026

🌞 How do bees keep cool? 🌞

With all this hot weather, you might be wondering how bees keep cool when we are all struggling to do the same.

Bees keep cool in several fascinating ways, all working together to help maintain the internal temperature of the hive at around 32-35°C (the perfect temperature for raising baby brood.

One of the main ways bees cool the hive is by collecting water, and putting this water inside the bottom of the hive, the warm air inside the hive then evaporates it, working much like an evaporative air conditioning unit. During hot weather, a hive can drink up to a litre of water a day while trying to maintain a cool temperature.

Each bee may make between 50-100 trips a day, carrying around 25-40mg of water per trip to help cool the colony. This becomes even more effective when combined with bees flapping their wings to move air around the hive and improve airflow.

Bees will also move towards areas that are hotter inside the hive, prioritising the brood and developing bee larvae. They absorb heat into their bodies from the honeycomb before travelling outside to dissipate the heat, effectively using their bodies like tiny ice packs.

Another common behaviour during warm weather is “bearding”, where bees relocate to the outside of the hive entrance. By forming a beard of bees outside the hive, they reduce congestion and heat build-up inside the colony.

In extreme heat, bees may abscond en masse, leaving the hive completely in search of somewhere cooler to live temporarily.

For such small creatures, bees are incredibly effective at working together to regulate temperature and protect the colony, especially during the height of summer.

And how are we keeping cool at Hive Mind HQ? Copious amounts of icy cold Honeyade of course!

🌞 We're beating the heat the only way we know how; ice cold sparkling mead! 🌞Today is the perfect day to enjoy some cann...
25/05/2026

🌞 We're beating the heat the only way we know how; ice cold sparkling mead! 🌞

Today is the perfect day to enjoy some canned sunshine in the sunshine 🍻

Here's a can of mead being poured at 😍

🐝 Today is World Bee Day! 🐝We've been celebrating World Bee Day by doing lots of pop up tasting sessions with our wonder...
20/05/2026

🐝 Today is World Bee Day! 🐝

We've been celebrating World Bee Day by doing lots of pop up tasting sessions with our wonderful stockists, and dishing out Honeyade outside the Chelsea Flower Show! It was lovely to meet so many of you and introduce you to our world of mead and honey drinks. ❤️

We all know that bees are essential to our planet, pollinating the plants that feed us, supporting biodiversity, and keeping ecosystems healthy. In fact, bees pollinate over 70 of the 100 crop species that provide 90% of the world’s food. Without their vital work, global food systems would rapidly collapse, biodiversity would suffer, and many of the foods we enjoy every day would disappear.

And of course… no bees = no mead!

Head to our website and use the code WORLDBEEDAY for 10% off all of our drinks for the next 2 days 🍻🍻

Cheers 🥂

Today is and we’re celebrating the incredible impact these little pollinators have on our planet! 🌍🐝Our team is set up...
20/05/2026

Today is and we’re celebrating the incredible impact these little pollinators have on our planet! 🌍🐝

Our team is set up just outside the Chelsea Flower Show at Battersea Power Station this afternoon. We’re handing out fresh flowers and ice-cold Honeyade to everyone stopping by. 🌸🍹

​If you're in the area enjoying the floral displays, come over, grab a drink, and celebrate with us!

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🕺 Got disco fever and don't know the cure? 🕺Boogie on down to the taproom on the 30th of May for an evening of disco by ...
18/05/2026

🕺 Got disco fever and don't know the cure? 🕺

Boogie on down to the taproom on the 30th of May for an evening of disco by IT's CANDY, plus food by house favourites Tandoori G!

About IT's CANDY: Disco, funk and bargroove specialists from Chepstow, they always bring the party (literally).

About Tandoori G: You've never had a Bhaji like this before.. They are back! Tandoori G have been taproom regulars, always smashing it with their freshly prepared dishes cooked in an authentic Tandoori oven. One for the foodies out there, these dishes never disappoint.

Tickets are free, so please book a space so we can add you to the food numbers

🕺 Disco fancy dress if you want to! 🕺

Doors open 17:00
Food From 18:00
Music from around 19:45

Free tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wyevalleymeadery/2187459

Calling all London mead fans! 🎭 Join us today at for a mead tasting session! We will be dishing out mead samples this a...
16/05/2026

Calling all London mead fans! 🎭 Join us today at for a mead tasting session! We will be dishing out mead samples this afternoon 🥂

🍯 Small Batch 15 🍺Introducing Small Batch 15: The Barrel-Aged Braggot 🐝🌾This time we’re taking it back to the 1800s. Bef...
14/05/2026

🍯 Small Batch 15 🍺

Introducing Small Batch 15: The Barrel-Aged Braggot 🐝🌾

This time we’re taking it back to the 1800s. Before modern craft beer took over, Braggot was the drink of choice across Wales and Ireland, though there are traces of mixed fermentation drinks made with honey and grains going back throughout history.

The word Braggot comes from the Celtic words brach and brag (referring to the sprouting grain).

Our Braggot is brewed on 50/50 honey and malt, giving the best of both worlds, the body of a beer with the honey depth of a mead. We’ve updated this ancient tradition by aging our latest batch in barrels, adding layers of oaky complexity to the classic honey-malt profile.

Get it before this batch is lost to history too! Available on the website now 🍻

https://hivemindmead.com/products/small-batch-series-15-barrel-aged-braggot

🫛 New Stockist! 🫛Heading to .barnes? You can now find our range of Honeyade alongside their beautiful fresh fruit, veg a...
12/05/2026

🫛 New Stockist! 🫛

Heading to .barnes? You can now find our range of Honeyade alongside their beautiful fresh fruit, veg and flowers! 💐

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Hive Mind Mead, Unit 5F, Castleway Industrial Estate
Caldicot
NP265PR

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm

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+447402953998

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