The co-owner's comment identifies malted barley as the base ingredient and says the honey enters in the whirlpool. Holly Springs Update: Vinland report
As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Specialty Honey Beer says these beers "incorporate honey as a fermentable sugar in addition to malted barley," with honey character "present in aroma and flavor but should not be overpowering," at 2 to 9.5 percent ABV and 1 to 100 IBU. No published specs exist to compare.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Honey Beer
Silver
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The menu lists four flagships (a Vienna lager, a Thai rice lager, a West Coast IPA and a hazy IPA) and two seasonals, none of them Vinland; the brewery has no individual beer pages, and a site search for Vinland returned no results.
BeerMenus search returned no match.
The web search budget for this session ran out before a press or Untappd search specific to this beer could be run.
No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: Found a medal report and the co-owner's explanatory comment confirming style, honey variety and barley malt. ABV, IBU and hop varieties remain unpublished in the sources found.
Field pass 2026-10-13: An ABV focused search excluding the already recorded local report found competition coverage without specs. No new ABV, IBU, brewery beer page or hop names were verified.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the co-owner's comment gives the honey addition point (whirlpool); no hops or figures.
Brewery site scrape 2026-10-14: found nothing new; 4 pages tried (robots.txt obeyed, one request every few seconds per host).
Second deep dive pass 2026-10-14 (press quoting the brewery; several searches aimed at social posts, menu and sell sheets): found nothing new; 7 pages tried. The Holly Springs Update post only repeats the already recorded co-owner comment (barley base, orange blossom honey in whirlpool); no ABV, IBU, hops or yeast surfaced. Searches return an unrelated Texas meadery named Vinland, which was excluded. Second round: tap list, social and local press searches found no Vinland post, ABV or hop list; brewmaster Devin Singley and the Lillington opening coverage do not mention the beer.