Thursday Fun Fact 1-20: Sweeter Than Sugar This, of course, doesn't explain why mead tastes sweeter - even when fermented dry - than fermented sugar water does. That's when you go down the "variety of reasons" rabbit hole.
Thursday Fun Fact 1-13: Flight of the Bumblebee Ricky the Meadmaker wants it on record that he can't outrun any bees, even at their normal flight speed of 12 mph, and that is OK by him.
Thursday Fun Fact 1-6: 1,980 A ten-year-old asked us the other day how many hives it takes to make all the honey we use in a year.
Thursday Fun Fact 12-16: Mushrooms Just imagine trying to fit two pounds of mushrooms into a hot toddy!
Thursday Fun Fact 11-4: This is true of essentially all holidays, both domestic and international.#ThursdayFunFact
Thursday Fun Fact 9-9: Cosmologists One of our friends who is particularly bad at math believes he's about halfway done testing all of them.
