1634 is our best selling mead and for good reason. They are delicious! Mead is fermented with three basic ingredients: honey, yeast and water. Alike to sake not being “rice wine", mead is not “honey wine”. Although it is created using fermented honey, it is not fermented from fruit, even if sometimes it is flavored with different fruit. The honey used to make mead determines the overarching flavor of the mead, and can vary according to a honey bee’s daily intake of nectar and pollen. Traditional mead often uses mild honey like orange blossom, clover or acacia. Wildflower, blackberry and buckwheat honeys produce stronger spiced meads. Dan Clapp, owner of 1634 Meadery, is a mead expert and makes local, fantastic mead in Ipswich. This Friday the 13th (!!!), Dan is opening some of his newest meads: Mother Clucker, Strawberry Fields, Devils Footprint, Mooncusser, and Wicked Wench!