Modern meadery making honey wine hip — with hops

You may know mead — an ancient alcoholic beverage made from water, honey, and yeast — as a drink that’s popular among Renaissance fair-goers and Game of Thrones fans.
Meadmaker Andrew Geffken is on a mission to add another group to that list: the average beer drinker. At Charm City Meadworks in Baltimore, Md. — he’s experimenting with modern takes on this age-old drink.
The current problem, Geffken says, is that mead just isn’t cool enough to woo hip craft be