The Buzz About Dylan Sprouse
"Most of my life, I've been told, 'You gotta be glamorous,'" says Dylan Sprouse. "But that's not who I am. I like being hands-on with the process, making a mixture, using the paddle. That stuff might seem unglamorous to other people, but I've come to love it. That's so much of what I think is the signature of a brewer."
Recently back in New York after six months of filming in China, the teen star-turned-master brewer is sitting on the sidewalk outside his new Williamsburg meadery, All-Wise — a tobacco pipe dangling in his mouth and his shoulder-length golden hair tied up under a baseball cap. Opened to the public a month ago, the space has been a passion project a few years in the making for Sprouse, along with his close friends Doug Brochu and Matt Kwan. And they're right on time: according to the latest beverage industry reports, mead is the smallest, but now fastest-growing, category of alcohol on the market.