Moonshine Meads

Two childhood friends from Pune who discovered mead in 2014 through an in-flight magazine article about London's first modern meadery, started fermenting honey in Rohan's grandmother's kitchen out of sheer curiosity, spent four years refining recipes and obtaining government approval in an almost completely unregulated beverage category, and launched India's (and Asia's) first commercial meadery in 2018 — becoming the pioneers of a category that has existed for 9,000 years but had no modern Indian commercial producer. Rohan Rehani (Co-founder) graduated from Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune in 2012. He is the operational and product lead the hands-on brewer who managed recipe development from grandmother's kitchen to commercial scale, and who runs day-to-day operations at the meadery. Nitin Vishwas (Co-founder & Director) holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB) — India's most prestigious business school.

Moonshine Meads is India's and Asia's first commercial meadery — producing small-batch, handcrafted, gluten-free alcoholic beverages made by fermenting honey with water and an extensive range of natural Indian and global botanical ingredients (fruits, spices, herbs, coffee, chillies) to create a diverse portfolio of contemporary, carbonated, and traditionally styled meads that position mead as a premium craft alternative to beer and wine for Indian urban millennials — reviving the world's oldest fermented beverage in a modern, accessible format.