Makana Meadery

Reynolds St, Grahamstown

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All beers · Makana Meadery

  • Makana Honey Sun Iqhilika African Transkei Gold Coffee

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Pure & rich African mead with coffee. Infused with the rarest of African coffee from the Wild Coast of South Africa.
  • Makana African Bird's Eye Chili

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    This mead is best served as an ice breaker at dinner parties, especially if the food will be hot.
  • Makana Birds' Eye Chili

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    This mead is best served as an ice breaker at dinner parties, especially if the food will be hot.
  • Makana Honey Sun Iqhilika African Herbal Blosson

    Mead · 13.0% ABV

    A semi sweet mead with rooibos, honeybush tea, cinnamon and apple. The herbs provide a smooth structure to the mead with a lingering honey aftertaste.
  • Makana African Dry Zymatore

    Mead · 5.6% ABV

    Aroma has a good amount of light fruit and dry honey with an underlying dry merlot note.
  • Makana African Herbal Blossom

    Mead · 13.0% ABV

    The herbs provide a smooth structure to the mead with a lingering honey aftertaste.
  • Makana Cape Fig

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    The leaves of the Cape Fig were chosen to blend with the sweet mead from the Makana Meadery to create a metheglin that tastes like honeyed fruit.
  • Makana Dry

    Mead · 13.0% ABV

    This mead is enjoyed by those who have learned the subtleties of mead and can savour the extremely discreet honey notes and pleasant almond aftertaste.
  • Makana Herbal

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    A semi sweet mead (approx 20g/l residual sugar) with rooibos, honeybush tea, cinnamon and apple.
  • Makana Honey Sun Iqhilika Cape White Fig

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Pure and rich African mead with natural flavor added. With the warm natural flavors of sun-ripened figs.
  • Makana Honey Sun Iqhilika Chili

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    This mead is best served as an ice breaker at dinner parties, especially if the food will be hot.
  • Makana African Bird's Eye Chili

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    This mead is aged over roasted, indigenous African Chili Peppers which lend a spicy tickle to the palate.
  • Makana African Chili

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    This mead is somewhat of a shock to the senses...
  • Makana African Coffee

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Pure & rich African mead with coffee. Infused with the rarest of African coffee from the Wild Coast of South Africa.
  • Makana African Herbal Blossom

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    A semi-sweet mead (~20g/l residual sugar) infused with a tea of hibiscus, rosehip, licorice, cinnamon, and dried apples...
  • Makana Barrel Matured Birds Eye Chili

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Makana iQhilika Birds Eye Chili Mead Matured in South African Red Wine Barrels on its journey to US.
  • Makana Cape Fig

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Pure and rich African mead with natural flavor added. With the warm natural flavors of sun-ripened figs.
  • Makana Honey Sun African Coffee

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Mead with the rich taste of freshly roasted African Coffee, aged in wine barrels.
  • Makana Honey Sun Iqhilika Dry

    Mead · 13.0% ABV

    This mead is enjoyed by those who have learned the subtleties of mead and can savour the extremely discreet honey notes and pleasant almond aftertaste.
  • Makana I Chili Msobomvu (Zymatore Project, 2011)

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    African mead with chilis added.
  • Makana Impundulu

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    The Impundulu is a supernatural bird from Pondo, Zulu, and Xhosa folklore; it is as big as a human and can summon lightning and storms. - Mead with a few dashes of molasses (alc. 12% by vol.)...
  • Makana Tokolshe

    Mead · 12.0% ABV

    Tokoloshe is an evil-spirited gremlin from Zulu mythology; short, hairy, humanoid figures that can render themselves invisible. - Mead with dash of molasses (alc. 12% by vol...
  • Makana Zymatore Dry Aged in South African Merlot Barrel

    Mead · 10.2% ABV

    A dry south African Mead from the Makana Meadery has been aged with wild yeast in south African Merlot Barrels.

About the brewery

Makana Meadery has its beginnings in a Rhodes University based research project to develop state of the art fermentation technology for producing iQhilika, an African mead.

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