The Keep Easy makes its own mead and mead cocktails, and uses Pennsylvania-made spirits to make a long list of classic drinks.
When Melissa Hager and Mike O’Donnell went to name their new bar in Jenkintown, they decided against celebrating mead, the honeyed spirit they’re making.
That’s how Yorkway Place, Jenkintown’s most charming pedestrian alley, came to be home to the Keep Easy, a cozy bar serving up dry, house-made mead plus Pennsylvania wine and cocktails. The former reading room’s interior maxes out at 20 people, but there’s seating for 30 on its front patio, set back from Route 611 traffic in a pre-war shopping arcade. It opened in July.
And that’s partly why Hager and O’Donnell chose it. They considered making beer or spirits, but the brewery market felt oversaturated and the overhead on a distillery seemed out of reach. Mead, by contrast, requires relatively little equipment. Plus, “not a lot of people know about this,” O’Donnell said.“It’s basically the same fermentation process as wine, but instead of fruit we’re using honey,” he explained.
The couple began making mead together in 2022 and got a Pennsylvania winery license earlier this spring. The menu features their own mead served neat, hot, over ice, or by the flight . They also mix up a number of carefully calibrated mead cocktails, including a surprisingly dry meadtini, a frothy mead sour, and a muddled mead old fashioned.
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