Our Latest Meads

Our meads are made with fresh, unprocessed raw honey, and using local fruits.  We want to support our region's economy, while making the best wine possible!  Prices range from $22 to $27 (in tasting room), depending on the amount of local produce, and the source of raw honey in the mead.  Ask about our Clan Mead Membership for discounted mead prices.

All of our meads are gluten free!!

A special limited release mead will be made 2-3 times per year.

A new bach of BEEKEEPER is out!   Dark, robust buckwheat honey is fermented with local tart cherries!

PEACH is BACK!!    Peach mead made with fruit from Russells Orchard, here in Ipswich, and local wildflower honey!

 

Our Current Lineup (March 2023):

Listed Dry to Sweet

 

DevilsFootprint Front 6Apr16 Devil's Footprint:                                         ABV 13.1%

A devily delightful sipping mead. Blueberries, raspberry and blackberries locally sourced are fermented with raw local honey to make this dry, tart mead. And a great local historic story to go along with the name!

Minuteman:                                          ABV 12.3%
Based on a 1674 recipe from London, this Metheglin style mead contains local honey, local raspberries, Grains of Paradise spice, cinnamon and cloves.  A delish tart and light pepper flavor goes down smooth.  Voted a employee favorite, three years running!

Toast to the Minutemen and their ladies!

Beekeeper:                                         ABV 14.5%

A limited release special mead!   This mead is made with rare to find (in New England) rich, dark Buckwheat honey.   This robust, earthy honey is fermented to a high ABV and tart local cherries.  In honor of all the local beekeepers, and one of the first in the area, John Ells of Newbury who operated an apiary in Newbury in 1640s.

MotherCluckerFront13Feb18 Mother Clucker:                                         ABV 13.1%
This tart mead, made with locally sourced gooseberries and red currants, will tingle your pallet!  Gooseberries, which are wildly popular all over Europe and are famed for making delicious desserts, and red currents are combined for a berry forward, fantastic mead!

Stinger Front 31Mar19

Stinger:                                          ABV 13.0%

Clover honey mead is aged with locally grown ginger (Red Fire Farm) and organic lemons. A perfect summer deck treat! Try with gin for a “healthy” gimlet cocktail!    Also nice mulled in the cooler weather.

Beewitched front 27Sep16

Beewitched:                                          ABV 12.5%

A Semi-sweet mead made with fresh, raw Maine clover honey. If dry or sweet is not your thing, give this a try! Plus, there is a great story to go with it- just read the label about Mazer's Dan x generation grandmother, hung as an accused witch in Salem.

WickedWenchFront6Jul17 Wicked Wench:                                          ABV 13.7% 

Semi-sweet traditional mead made with northshore MA wildflower honey. It does not get more local, or better, than this!  A good middle of road sweetness, with earthy characteristics of the local fall honey.

'Lil Jack Horner:                                         ABV 16.5%

A great after dinner sipper made with local plums and local wildflower honey.  This special release has been aged for 18 months. This mead goes down nice and smooth!   An off-dry melomel mead.

StrawberryFront12Mar15

Strawberry Fields:                                         ABV 13.7%

Mounds of beautiful, locally grown, red fragrant berries make this mead one of our stand outs. On the tongue, the berry flavor explodes, and then a hint of cinnamon lingers on your palate. This mead is a semi-sweet wine.

VVFrontLabel Viking Victory:     NEW BATCH!!                         ABV 15.5%

A spiced mead (metheglin) made with bamboo honey. Perfect for sipping while sitting in front of the fireplace! Mulled with Nutmeg, Allspice, Cinnamon and Cloves. Metheglins have been around for literally a millennium!

PeachsPointFront9Mar18 Websize

Peach's Point - Peach/vanilla:                                         ABV 13.0%

One of our more "dessert" type meads, mostly because of the madagascar vanilla we add during our aging process.  Juicy, fully ripe, local peaches are fermented with wildflower honey for this tasty delight!  This year we used TWICE as many peaches, and pressed the fruit to get more flavor in the mead!

RaspberryFront5Apr16 Raspberry Delight:                                         ABV 15.0%

This mead has been described as "Dangerously Delicious"! It exactly what you would expect from a mead made with fresh local honey and raspberries from a local family owned farm!  Sweet and tart!

JasonsBlunder24Mar17 Jason's Blunder:                                                         ABV 14.3%

A mistake gone good.  An accidental combining of our cranberry and strawberry meads, with the raspberry added as a balancer, the mead drinker is introduced to sweet red berry delight!  A terrible mistake that has gone good.  We made Jason write the label, so you will have to read it to get his full story!

OrangeElation2018front Orange Elation:                                  ABV 13.7%
We went out of the area for the orange blossom honey in this straight up mead, but we think you'll agree, this mead is a staple of any wine cellar! If you have never tried mead,and like sweet start here!
Front Final 27Apr21

TOPSAIL                NEW BATCH!!                                         20% ABV

This special limited release mead was two years in the making.   First a blueberry mead brandy was made by distilling some blueberry mead, then we put that into some more blueberry mead to make a "port-style" mead that was aged for 18 months!  A great mead to share with friends!

OTHER MEADS

These are meads we have made in the past, and will likely make in the near future!

CBCFRONT 27Mar15 Choate Bridge Cyser:                                         ABV 13.7%

Get a blast of apple flavor and touch of fall with this mead, one of our lighter elixirs. Perfect for a hot summer day, or a lighter winter wine. This is one of our dryer meads. Think a combination of a hard cider and a mead!

1634Meadery PuritanPride 23Feb2015 front

Puritan Pride:                                         ABV 14.5% 

Just like the puritans of old, nothing fancy here!  A dark wildflower is fermented dry and aged on American Oak. More similar to a wine then some of our other meads, with some earthy and vanilla tones.  It is dry - so don't be caught of guard!

BlueberryFront17Mar15 Blueberry Dream:                                         ABV 14.3%

Blueberries, from Cider Hill Farms in Amesbury, have been fermented with raw Massachusetts honey.  This year we also added some low bush blueberries from Maine to increase the blueberry color and flavor.  This is one of our favorite products-  always jumping with flavor, this provides thoughts of a late summer rest in a hammock.  We strive to capture the true blueberry flavor, with careful crafting. This a dryer mead with a hint of sweetness.

SerendipityFront 8Mar16

Serendipity:                                         ABV 13.0%

Ginger Pear Mead with a great story. Made with local honey, "Clapp's Favorite" pear, and locally sourced ginger (yes they grow that here!).  This is on the dryer side for our meads, good with dinner.  Think Asian food!  

InTheOrchardfront19Sep16 In The Orchard:                                         ABV 12.5%

A semi-sweet apple mead (sweeter than our other cyser) made with local cider, local honey, and aged with Indonesian cinnamon. This a must after a day apple picking in New England and better as a chilled summer sipper! Yum!

Front 15Dec20 websize B100:                                                 ABV 13.5%

Blackberries from local Russell's Orchards are fermented off-dry and then aged with sweet basil, for a juicy, earthy character. This batch is the 100th one we have made at the meadery, since we opened in 2015!  What a joy ride!

MooncusserFront1Mar18

Mooncusser:                                          ABV 13.7% 

Semi-sweet mead made with orange blossom honey, and then aged with fresh locally sourced jalapeno peppers, making a sweet hot combination.  Pair with nachos, tacos or another spicy food. 

OrangeBasil 3Sep15 FRONT Citrus Breeze:                         ABV 13.1%

Basil lovers unite! Honey and fresh naval oranges are combined with local sweet and lemon basil.  Sit on the deck, lean back and enjoy! Or have with a pasta dish, pizza, or some Thai food!  Yummy! You have to try this one to appreciated it.

1634Meadery Strhruberry Front 10Aug2015

Strhuberry:                                         ABV 13.3%

A strawberry rhubarb mead.  Fresh local strawberries, and rhubarb from local gardens.  Need I say more? A bit tart, a bit sweet, and a definite fan favorite.  Think Grandma's pie, but not too sweet.

Craneberry front23Sep16 Craneberry Mead:                                         ABV 14.3%
Yummy in the tummy!  This sweet and tart combination is released during the holidays once per year.  A delicious mead for sharing with friends and family.  Made with organic cranberries from Carver, MA.
  Yes, it is that time of the year!
FriarLukesFrontFinal Friar Luke's:              LIMITED RELEASE                           ABV 17.0%

Only three barrels of this special mead has been made.  Goldenrod honey mead aged for 18 months with both black and white cardamon spice.   Made in style more similar to the first mead Dan ever had, from Denmark.  This is an after dinner sipping mead to enjoy with friends!

Semi-sweet with higher ABV than our average