Alex Ayala is the founder meadmaker, and owner for Mythical Buzz, along with co-owners: his wife Brenda Ayala and his friend Chris Leeton.

Alex: The idea of making wine has always fascinated me. While all those close to me wanted to get enjoyed beer and hard liquor, I had a fascination discovering the flavors for the many varietals of wine and visiting Texas vineyards. I couldn’t have imagined mead being an option until one fateful day during the pandemic, I said to myself “I have lots of time on my hands, I’d like to make some alcohol. I think I’ll make some mead.” So I did all the research on making mead, bought all the supplies that I needed to make a few 1-gallon batches (including some wild ingredients) and went through the entire process. But why choose something I barely knew anything about? Because mead gave me a blank palette to create any range of flavors that my heart could desire, and this is important because if I wanted something to taste more like a beer, then this was entirely possible, but at the same time I could in theory created something as complex as a Bourdeaux — more often than not, flavors usually always sit somewhere in betweent. Fast forward a few years and dozens of batches later, I know have some winner recipes that I can be happy to serve to all of those close to me.

Mythical Buzz is more than just mead, it’s creative minds that come together to get different facets of the business moving. As much as I love making mead, I don’t know if I could have come this far without the aid of my wife Brenda Ayala and good friend Chris Leeton, who have both been instrumental in this endeavor.  The idea is more that just making mead, but making a craft mead that we could be proud to put our names behind. We strive to meet or exceed the complexity of any high end beer or wine.