{"product_id":"palmers-mead-salal","title":"Salal Mead - Palmer's","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e19.5% Alc.\/Vol.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePalmer's Meadery, the home of Esquimalt Vermouth. Our meads are exclusively sold online and at the Meadery in Nanaimo. In addition to our main Esquimalt business, we are also dabbling in a bit of small scale farming, growing garlic, artisanal crafts, honey and mead making. Super small-scale experimentations into the world of traditional mead making. If you want to better understand how Esquimalt is made, it all starts with mead.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cousin to wild blueberries, Salal Berries are the dominant understory of the forests of Vancouver Island. Fruity, jammy with a bit of earthy funk. We took our base mead, fortified it with a bit of spirit to 19.5% Alc.\/Vol. and then crushed 100 kg of wild salal berries into a jammy pulp before aging them on the base mead for 2 months. This Salal Mead is the base we use for Esquimalt's Kina-Salal, but this is a much more approachable and crushable variation kind of alike a lighter wild berry liqueur that when served on ice, is a sheer delight after a filling meal. Salal berries and a bit of honey sweetness with \u003cspan\u003ethe faintest bit of ginger, star anise, and grapefruit for a little botanical ooh-la-la. D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eoesn't get much better than that. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Esquimalt Vermouth \u0026 Apéritifs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48853844787437,"sku":"743281","price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/6407\/9006\/files\/PalmersSalalMead1Low.jpg?v=1777003020","url":"https:\/\/esquimaltvermouth.ca\/products\/palmers-mead-salal","provider":"Esquimalt Vermouth \u0026 Apéritifs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}