Usually we answer your questions about mead making, mead drinking, mead brewing, and anything you're willing to send to me, but it is the week of Solstice and as many of my viewers know, I usually do a midwinter ramble right about now where I thank you all so much.
But I was going to do a normal episode this year. I had all my questions lined up, and we lost a really good friend of the Mead Hall this week. He was a really good guy. They're still in the process of telling his family, but he was a huge supporter of ours. And I just don't have it in me to do normal questions. So, I thought this would be the perfect time to tell you all about the biggest project we've ever worked on.
People will think that moving our tanks in here or any of the crazy stuff about getting a new meadery was the biggest thing we've ever done. And I will tell you, it was hard. It is a scary thing to stand up a 30- to 100-pound tank. But it was also a scary year because we're a small business. There are five of us who work here full time. And we're always about two weeks away from bankruptcy. It's a small business thing. I'm not complaining.
But when we were in the process of moving, we started getting emails, visitors and phone calls about how much the show and our Mead Hall in particular meant to people. And some people were really devastated that the Mead Hall in Colchester had to close. And I will admit, so was I. It was a really special place.
And we've talked on this show in the past about how we are an apolitical company. And we're apolitical, not because we don't believe in causes, but because we want people to feel safe to bring their whole selves to our Mead Hall. And it was a big deal. I saw people who aligned differently, politically: undergrads at a Catholic school with welders from a power plant all hanging out and playing board games together. And we realized that if, heaven forfend, we go belly up as a company, the thing we want to survive us is not our mead. Our recipes are free online, you can go make them. But what we actually believe in, which is feasting.
So, in the next couple of weeks and months, we are unrolling a huge project we've been working on which is called Bring the Feast Home. We want more communities to get together to feast. The world has people who can overeat and go hungry. But we have fewer and fewer and fewer feasters and fasters. If you want to learn about fasting, there's plenty online about it. But we believe deeply in the need that humans have for feasting. And so, on this show, and on our website, and our blog, and on Facebook, and anywhere that Marina and Kelly know how to post it, we're going to be talking about our new project.
But I wanted to say today that I am so thankful for all of you. Thank you for watching hundreds of episodes of this show. Thank you for giving us a thumbs up when we post funny pictures of Nora the Viking kiddo and thank you so much for supporting each other because when our Mead Hall closed, we found our community struggling. And what they found was each other. People that in the polarized world you see online should never talk to each other. They were inviting each other over for a drink, and for dinner, and we want to help promote that. So, thank you for buying our mead. Thank you for watching our show and thank you for being part of our community. In two weeks, I will answer your questions again. Thank you for sending them. Cheers.
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