In which Ricky the Meadmaker makes a big announcement at Midwinter Fest 2018!
Every year at midwinter fest we have a major announcement. This year, we did it live. This portion is not live, but that portion was live. Then again, it's not live anymore. It really makes you ask the question. Anyway, enjoy.
This year's announcement is you will never be coming to Midwinterfest here again. Here. We don't own this building. I don't know if you notice when you come in. We do our best to create a mead hall effect in an industrial space back behind Costco at the end of an industrial road. You've never noticed. That is thanks to my wonderful staff who make this place feel like a mead hall when you come in.
We're finally getting our own place. Our forever location. You won't be able to go there. But this is what our goal is. When you make mead it is a messy, sticky, fabulous process which involves 90% janitorial work and 10% creativity. We have split, thanks to chef Tim. Hi Tim! Wave. He doesn't like that... The mead hall is going mobile. So, as many of you know, our vegetables and a lot of our mead for big events all come from local farms. We're going to the farms. He's licensed us so that we are a pop-up mead hall. We are coming to you. For all those people who say why aren't you in Hardwick, I always say, you know, why are you in Hardwick? Why aren't you in South Royalton? I don't know, is anybody in South Royalton?
Farms are out there. The people that provide the food that we serve in our mead hall are out there. So, we are going to bring our tents, we are going to be bringing wood fires and we're bringing the mead hall out. As for the production, we're going to do a couple of events a year. We're hoping to be able to do Midwinter Fest actually at the site, because it does matter. It does matter that you see these are the people that make it. This is where they make it. But again, we're going to be at the end of an industrial drive. Cross your fingers, because it hasn't passed inspection yet.
In January, we're going to have, week after week after week, big events here to thank everyone in the Colchester community for supporting us for so long. We're going to have you come drink us out of this facility because I plan on not putting all that mead on a truck and moving with it. I'd rather not just ship it to a distributor. I'd rather put it in all of you guys. So, the next couple months are going to be absolutely incredible for us. My entire staff is working double their normal hours to make this happen. There will be more news. There will be, once that inspection passes, you'll know exactly where we're moving. We know next year we're coming to you.
One of the things that we're going to offer this year is, every time we have one of those events where people say, why aren't you at fill-in-the-blank? We usually say we didn't know about it. So, this year, we got to be at the Enosburg Harvest Festival. It was amazing. I mean, there are people out there that we've never seen before. And they all say the same thing. Why have I never heard of you before? I don't know, I'm on TV all the time. You don't tune in to the local news? I wouldn't know me from TV. But we do want to get out there because Vermont means a huge amount to us. We didn't have to start up in Vermont. We wanted to. This is where we wanted our family to be. This is where we wanted our company to be.
So, we want to be out and about every time we get to do a Rotary promotion somewhere, every time we get to go to a farm, that is why we exist. We make mead. We want to be out there with our meadiacs. So, 2019 is a level of excitement that I am utterly unprepared for. But I trust all of you guys. So, thank you for being here tonight. We'll see you in a year. Cheers.
