Keep Easy Meadery in Jenkintown was recently featured in an article by The Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Jenkintown has a new cocktail bar that specializes in mead. Just don’t call it a meadery”.

The article details the journey of owners Melissa Hager and Mike O’Donnell, including how they came up with the name, the concept, and a few fun facts about the process used to create the often-misunderstood mead. An excerpt:

They considered making beer or spirits, but the brewery market felt oversaturated and the overhead on a distillery seemed out of reach. Mead, by contrast, requires relatively little equipment. Plus, “not a lot of people know about this,” O’Donnell said.

The Keep Easy is described as “a cozy bar serving up dry, house-made mead plus Pennsylvania wine and cocktails” with an “extensive traditional cocktail list, from a gin fizz to dark & stormy, all made from scratch. They’re sourcing from several Pennsylvania distilleries — Bluecoat, New Liberty, Resurgent, Thistle Finch, Dad’s Hat, Manatawny Still Works, Bluebird, Jacquin’s, and more.”

The article also gives a nod to other establishments in Jenkintown, including Human Robot, Newbolds, Pizza Wheel, Via 417, Buckets and the Drake Tavern.

“Jenkintown’s just awesome,” O’Donnell said. “It could be a Doylestown, it could be a New Hope once more businesses come in … We wanted to be a part of that, too.”

For the full story, you can click here. For our previous coverage on their grand opening in July, you can click here. For more on Keep Easy, located at 747 Yorkway Place, you can visit their Facebook page.

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