Artifice Ales & Mead, a gastropub and brewery, open this week at 55 N. Manheim St. in Manheim. Itâs part of the REO Manheim Marketplace. Artifice Ales & Mead is founded by the partners who launched Meduseld Meadery in Lancaster in 2017. Willie Wrede is the mead maker and brewer for Meduseld/Artifice and managing partner of Artifice. His wife Julie Wrede, serves as CFO and also handles human resources. Alfonso and Jeanette Soler, and Duro Rajkovic are founding members as well and helped build Meduseld Meadery from concept to launch. âRepurposing the building was a no-brainer. The high ceilings, concrete floors, dock doors and proximity to surrounding neighborhoods, and high visibility along Route 72 were all great reasons to choose this property for our location,â Wrede said, âWe love Manheim; we live here. We are confident this will be another win for our town that is long overdue.â