San Diego meadery & cidery
Come visit Twisted Horn Mead & Cider, the only Viking inspired mead hall in San Diego, CA that features our perfectly crafted award winning mead and cider. If you cannot visit our taproom, you can order online and have our mead shipped straight to your door.
Our tasting room is open Wednesday through Sunday, is pet friendly and fully air conditioned for your comfort! Whether you are a seasoned connoisseur or a newcomer to mead & cider, our knowledgeable staff stands ready to guide you through a tasting journey unlike any other.
Enjoy new flavors and old favorites from our wide selection of award winning meads and ciders flowing from our 17 taps!
New Flavors and Old Favorites!!
“Get Stoned” Cider
Stone fruit, stone fruit and more stone fruit went into this delicious refreshing cider made from apple, yellow peach, apricot and turtle egg plums. THC not included. LOL
“Briar Rose” Mead
This absolutely amazing mead was made with orange blossom honey, raspberry, strawberry, vanilla bean and rose. Apply named after the lady hero in the Fable game series.
“Perry and Strike” Cider
We made this unique pear cider (perry) with limited ingredients that boosted the pear flavor through the roof. Dry yet savory, crisp, earthy with hints of spice. Amazing!
Mead and Cider: The Real Story
Mead and cider’s histories date back thousands of years to when something that wasn’t quite beer and wasn’t quite wine emerged on the market. Unique and fantastical drinks indeed they were that offered flavors that beer and traditional wines could not. As time passed, fruits, spices and other adjunct flavors were also added to further enhance the already unique flavor profiles. Capitalizing on creativity and only using the best quality of those very ingredients, is what gave rise to this truly unique and extraordinary location. Within our hallowed halls, our mead and cider making is serious business, and we make sure to provide only the most worthy of beverages to our honored guests. Head over to our about us page to learn more about the story of our mead and cider and why we like to describe our offerings as “Old World Style With a Twist”.
What is Mead?
Mead is the oldest know fermented beverage on the planet (it predates all other forms by hundreds if not thousands of years) and was once called the drink of Gods and Kings. In it’s most basic form, mead is three things: honey, water, and yeast, and when it is done right, these three ingredients can come together to make one incredible libation. Twisted Horn brings the experience of “aged” times to life with every glass and bottle that we serve! If you wish to buy mead in Southern California, the object of your quest for the best meads that can be found are in Vista in our very own one of a kind viking mead hall. For those residing in far distant lands, our assortment of meads can be found in our online store. So come forth and order your fill!
Tell Me About the Cider ?
Our unique hard cider is artistically crafted from primarily using either apples or pears and imbues the drinker with feelings of exquisite satisfaction, an enticing alcoholic beverage the likes of which the cider world has never known. Like our tantalizing mead, our cider is often combined with different fruits to create a vast variety of complex, unparalleled flavor experiences. Once you have seen our selection of ciders, you will never need to venture anywhere else in the Southern California region. With great passion for our art, we select only the best fruit in the batch and are always eager to bring only the most extraordinary flavor combinations to our table. Journey forth to explore the flavors available at the end of your day’s quest and don’t forget to “Drink from the Horn!”
Reservations
Looking for a great place to have your next team meeting or birthday party? Venture forth to visit the best meadery/cidery in Southern California! Our Asgard Room off our lobby is available to reserve for small to medium sized gatherings. If you wish, you can also take a step back in time and reserve our one of a kind mead hall. For very large events, we can even go as far as to reserve the entire space to meet your needs. Searching for a “meadery near me” has never been easier. Click on the button to send an inquiry to our event coordinator.
What’s going on?
There’s always something going on at Twisted Horn! We are filling our calendar with events, craft days, classes, story telling, food trucks/vendors, game nights, trivia, live music, and more! If you want to not only buy mead and cider in Southern California but also want to embark on a social mead hall experience unlike any other, check out what we currently have on our event calendar and come and join the fun!
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We value our honored guests!
““An amazing selection and the staff was so sweet and welcoming!””
““Wow! I was blown away by this place. Amazing employees and very cool decor! The mead was delicious and I can’t wait to get more, they got me hooked!””
““We had a great time. The people who work here are super friendly and helpful when making your choices! Loved the music as well!””
Thank you to all of our loyal customers and new customers alike! We hope that you venture back again very soon!
Ship Me Mead!
If you can’t buy our mead in person in our mead hall, have no fear, Twisted Horn can come to you! Visit our online mead store and pick from our wide variety of delicious and unique meads. So, now you can enjoy our one-of-a-kind meads in the comfort of your home, delivered straight to your door all the way from Southern California. Get the best meads in Vista shipped directly to you and see why our hall is filled with the voices of happy warriors. Skal!
Drink from the horn!
See those horns on the wall? At Twisted Horn, by becoming a member, you too can drink like a Viking! Since 2017, we have had our Odin’s Warriors Club members drinking the finest mead and cider from horns in our one of a kind mead hall. Post-pandemic, we have since restructured our offerings to bring you even more sweet deals and special perks, whether you are shopping in our online cider and mead store or visiting in-person! So, if you have ever wanted to bring out your inner Viking or Shield Maiden, there is only ONE location here in Southern California where you can do that very thing, Twisted Horn Mead & Cider. SKÅL!!!
Twisted Horn in News
Mead, an ancient alcohol, gets ‘twisted’ in Vista
Step aside, craft brews. Mead, the nectar of the Norse gods, is making inroads in North County.
Mead, or honey wine, is said to be the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage. In Vista, the old drink has found a new home at Twisted Horn Mead and Cider, which officially opened last month in the Vista Business Park.
-Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/
See it for yourself!
Use your arrow keys to take a virtual tour of our highly unique tasting room and see for yourself what it truly means to “Drink from the Horn!”
Be a Viking for the Day at Twisted Horn Mead & Cider in Vista
Nestled in a nondescript business park, Twisted Horn Mead & Cider built an out-of-this-world tasting room featuring a mead hall inspired by Norse mythology.
-Source: https://yournorthcounty.com/
Twisted Horn Mead & Cider Offers Tasty Alternative to Craft Beers and Wineries
TR Robertson — Vista, CA …For Vince Obarski, it started out as a dream in 1991 while stationed in the U.S. Navy in Norway.
-Source: http://www.thevistapress.com/