Dave Bragg on Turning Honey into a Business

Kanawha Valley Hustlers · Feb 26, 2026 · 4m

In this episode of the Kanawha Valley Hustlers podcast I talk with Dave Bragg, owner of Wandering Wind Meadery, Charleston’s first and only meadery. I ask what mead is, and he frames it as honey wine with roots in cultures all over the world. I joke about Thor and Vikings, and he brings it back to a wider history of honey traditions.

I ask how he got started. Dave comes from performing, and medieval re-enactment. Mead shows up in that world, and when he retired from performing he saw a gap in Charleston. There were no meaderies here, so he chose to build one.

We get into the problem he tried…