Quad City Times: Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, the Quad Cities’ first meadery, opens its doors in downtown Davenport today. “This will be a place for people to learn about mead,” owner Rick Harris said. “And try it, probably for the first time.” Mead, which is made by fermenting honey and often likened to honey wine, is a rather under-the-radar alcoholic drink, Harris said, though it is picking up buzz around the country. In 2003, there were about 30 meaderies in the United States and that number soared to 300 as of 2016, according to the American Mead Makers Association