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Discover Our Unique Mead Selection

Welcome to Zydeco Meadery - where the ancient craft of mead-making meets modern flavors and innovation.

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Our Story

Zydeco Meadery is dedicated to crafting meads that reflect a blend of cultures from Massachusetts, Louisiana, and Trinidad & Tobago. Our commitment to excellence drives every aspect of our business, ensuring you experience distinct and flavorful mead variations. 

 

We are dedicated to showcasing our culture and heritage through mead.

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various apples used to make the apple mead
basket of wild blueberries
traminette grapes hanging on the vine

Mead Selection

Semisweet - 12% alc/vol - 3° Brix

A traditional semisweet mead made from knotweed honey collected from the rural areas of Massachusetts.  This mead has a rich, malty, nutty flavor reminiscent of buckwheat meads.

Semisweet - 12% alc/vol - 3° Brix

Bayou Soleil is French for Golden Bayou.  This mead is a co-fermentation of Traminette grape juice and wildflower honey from Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.  If you enjoy citrusy, floral German wines like Gewürztraminer and Riesling, you'll definitely enjoy Bayou Soleil.

Sweet - 12% alc/vol - 7° Brix

Carnival Rose is a hibiscus mead is based on a Trinidadian recipe created by the owner's grandmother, Ena Depradine.  Hibiscus mead is similar to drinks found in the Caribbean, the Mexican Gulf coast, northern South America, and West Africa called sorrel, bissap, flor de jamaica, sobolo, or zobo.  The seeds of the hibiscus plant (Hibiscus sabdariffa) were transported to the Americas in the hair of women during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.  This mead is made from hibiscus calyces, spices, ginger, and Louisiana wildflower honey. 

Yankee Heritage Cyser 

Semisweet - 10% alc/vol - 3° Brix

Yankee Heritage Cyser is a semisweet apple cyser made from raisins plus sweet and bittersweet apples. In colonial times, New England colonists added raisins to their fermented ciders to add tannins then sweetened the cider with molasses.  Our version features Massachusetts knotweed honey to simulate the dark, candy flavors of molasses.

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Mead is available to purchase at the following Massachusetts summer farmers markets

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August 30

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1226 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02139

1 General Way

Reading, MA 01867

474 Columbus Avenue

Boston, MA 02118

280 School Street

Mansfield, MA 02048

Retailers in Eastern Massachusetts

Retailers on Cape Cod and the South Coast

1495 Falmouth Road

Centerville, MA 02632

2421 Cranberry Highway

Wareham, MA 02571

Retailers in Western Massachusetts

119 Park Street

Great Barrington, MA 01230

55 Main Street

Greenfield, MA 01301

Live Outside Massachusetts?

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