Dylan Sprouse, former Disney Channel darling and Adam Sandler co-star, has opened a meadery in Brooklyn. All-Wise Meadery opened its doors across from the William Vale Hotel in Williamsburg earlier this month. Their first batch of meads will ship sometime in June.

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Dylan and his twin brother Cody received their first big break as child actors alongside Adam Sandler in his movie Big Daddy. They shared that role, and eventually went on to star in the Disney Channel’s his series, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The Sprouse twins eventually burned out of acting. “Working from that young of an age is definitely a double-edged sword,” Sprouse told the New York Post. They left the acting world to attend NYU from 2011 to 2015, where Dylan studied video-game design, creative writing and figurative painting.
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Several years before, Sprouse developed a passion for brewing various forms of alcohol. After his father gave him a brewing kit when he was 16, he couldn’t stop experimenting. He tried all different kinds of alcohol, but mead was his first and favorite experiment. The short upfront time commitment and following fermenting period made it easy for Sprouse to test out different recipes for mead, even with his chaotic schedule. By the time he got to college, he and eventual All-Wise Meadery co-founder Doug Brochu had begun exchanging mead recipes. Once he arrived on campus, Sprouse met spirit and brewing enthusiast Matt Kwan, and the All-Wise founding team was complete.

As Sprouse and Brochu continued to exchange recipes across coasts (Brochu lived in California at the time), they laid the foundations for All-Wise Meadery. While mead is traditionally sweet and strong, Sprouse’s recipes yielded a simpler, lower-octane version of the spirit that he believed addressed a different segment of the market. “I realized that there weren’t any similar to the way I was making it for myself and my friends,” Sprouse told Food & Wine. All-Wise prides itself on simple recipes made from local ingredients, and has just 11% ABV, compared to the 20% and above ABV of more traditional meads.

Although mead sounds extremely hipster and more than a little bit pretentious, Sprouse is genuinely passionate about it. He worked at DUMBO bourbon distillery Kings County Distillery to gain some experience in the industry after college. Sprouse further elaborated, “I could go on and on about tasting notes and how we’re more of a light-bodied blah blah blah…but I think the best answer would be to try it yourself and find out. Since not many people know what the flavor profile of mead tastes like, I generally urge them to come discover something new and give ours a try.”

All-Wise Meadery offers plain mead for $30 a bottle, and oolong-infused mead for $35 a bottle.