One hour Wine, Beer, and Mead Guided Tasting in Costa Rica’s Central Valley

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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
1 hour
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Number of Guests
2 - 10 guests
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English, Spanish
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Join a guided tasting in Costa Rica's Central Valley, sampling unique local beers, wines, and meads. Discover the craftsmanship behind these award-winning beverages. Experience it now!

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Make a reservation for a special opportunity to visit an independent beer, wine, and mead producer located near San José and taste our distinctly local products during a small-group guided tasting. Pick from two tour times, and make your own way to the meadery in Santa Bárbara, Heredia. After touring the fermentation room, taste six different meads, beers, and wines—which are made from locally grown flowers, fruits, and other botanicals—in the company of the owners.

-This small-group tour is capped at 15 people for a personal experience

- Learn all about how beer, wine, and mead are made.

- Taste a range of award-winning beers, wines, and meads made with local products

- Hear behind-the-scenes stories from the meadery’s owners


Whether a connoisseur or newcomer, this journey awakens your senses and creates cherished memories. Book now to explore the artistry and craftsmanship defining our Central Valley, leaving you with a taste of the extraordinary.

Sample Menu

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Caribeño
A sparkling ginger mead. Spicy apple notes, and semi-sweet and intense flavor with a citrus finish. Gold medal winner!
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Pitanga
A sparking mead fermented with mulberry and surinam cherry
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Acertijo
A wild sour beer and mead blend, fermented with wild yeast cultivated from bamboo and tropical fruit.
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Moca
A sweet sparkling mead, with cocoa, coffee and vanilla. One of our most popular meads!
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Passiflora
A honey wine with passion fruit and rainforest honey. Intense passion fruit flavor, predominantly sweet, balanced with a pleasant acidity.

What You Get

Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholic Beverages

Good To Know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Service animals allowed
  • Wheelchair accessible

What You’ll Experience

1) Be welcomed to Costa Rica Meadery by the owners 2) Visit the fermentation room where the mead, beer, and other products are fermented 3) Enjoy 6 meads with the owners and learn how each of them was made

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Costa Rica Meadery, Heredia, Costa Rica, CR, 40402

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The two story white building with large windows at the lower entrance of the Ark Herb Farm.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Not the Mead you think it is
March 09, 2025
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Mead is NOT the syrupy sweet concoction I thought it was! This was very informative and fun! Loved the wines and beers so much so that we bought several (and I'm a big Cab Sav person) we had fun an...read more

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Excellent weekend choice
February 24, 2025
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Delicious beers and wines, the experience was amazing and all the explanation given was great. The view of the place is beautiful too

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Unique experience!
January 26, 2025
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This is a very unique experience! We learned so much about the processes of making different alcoholic beverages including mead. Michael chose the meads and beer based on our preferences and we lov...read more

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It was totally worth it
March 31, 2024
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Everything was very good, the person was very friendly at all times and made it very clear what the process is. If you like craft beer and are interested in the process, it is definitely worth atte...read more

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Amazballs
February 25, 2024
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Great experience tasting a getting to know people around the world while tasting wonderful mead. Would highly recommend

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