Dylan Sprouse Is Brewing Your New Summer Drink

From Delish

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but rosé may have some competition this summer in the form of a new line of alcohol brewed by a certain famous name.

I'm talking about mead - specifically, mead brewed by Dylan Sprouse who, along with business partners Doug Brochu and Matt Kwan, have opened a meadery in New York City.

OK, this is all great, but the real question you're probably wondering: What, exactly, is mead? The alcoholic drink is made from three ingredients - honey, water and yeast - and, according to Sprouse, you can sip it chilled, on ice, or at room temperature.

All-Wise Meadery was born from Sprouse and Brochu’s passion for homebrewing. Sprouse started brewing mead at 16 and continued his hobby through college, brewing in the NYU dorms and trading bottles with Brochu, who also had an interest in it.

“I realized that what I was making, and my personal taste preference, was very relevant to my friend group, and very relevant to new age drinkers in a lot of ways,” Sprouse tells Cosmopolitan.com.

After graduating in 2015, Sprouse worked for a local distillery before deciding with Brochu to start their own business.

“I called Doug and I said, ‘Doug, we’ve been talking for years about owning a brewery eventually. Why don’t we stop talking for years, and why don’t we start talking about now?’ ” Sprouse says. “And we hit the ground running.”

In addition to brewing and selling their mead online, the team plans to open a full bar in Williamsburg, New York City later this year, where they plan to serve fun things like mead cocktails.

For those curious, Sprouse is hesitant to say how the mead tastes.

“Generally, we are viewed to be more on a crisp, dry, light body spectrum of mead,” he says.

For someone who doesn't love white wine, the mead's visual similarity made me apprehensive. But it tastes nothing like it - I can happily report that the mead has a nice, light, honey flavor. All-Wise's Oolong mead is true to its name, with a hint of tea flavor, and the Show mead is aged with oak spirals, which makes it smell like a vanilla-flavored dessert. Its light taste and chilled temperature combination has easily secured its place as one of my go-to drinks this summer.

Want to try it for yourself? Preorder All-Wise’s first batch on their website; the spirit ships in June. Just in time for rosé mead season.

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