Maine Mead Works

Industrial space with picnic benches in the car park. Meads were generally unimpressive, but not unpleasant. Strong still meads and weaker sparkling meads available in full or half pours.

Right near the middle of town, I enjoyed this stop. It's directly next to Oxbow and a distillery. They had 8 meads available when we visited. They offer a pre-set flight of 4 meads for $7, and 5 / 8 oz pours for $4 / $7. Meads were quite nice for dry ones and their session meads were solid too. Service was friendly but rather inattentive and slow. Worth a visit.

Sandwiched between Oxbow and a small distillery, so multiple visits couldn't be easier. Small parking lot and reasonable street parking, but there is enough alcohol to consume in this neighborhood that you might as well use Lyft or Uber. Large central L-shaped bar and a couple of restaurant tables. Plain decor looks like a former storefront/showroom with minimal renovation. No working AC when I visited so it was 80 degrees inside on a cool summer day, I know because I sat across from a thermostat. One-at-a-time tasting of four flagship meads for seven bucks, and/or pours of specialty meads from bottle or draft. They also sell both bottles and cans. Flagship meads were fine, specialty ones were tasty and creative. Service was a bit curt but not bad. You might as well stop in after Oxbow.

Another one of the Portland places I’ve been to probably 5+ times but never reviewed. Smallish tasting room with free samples of all of their lovely meads. The meads here are great and we usually stop in for a few bottles of the lavender mead, and the carbonated iced tea and lemonade meads. I don’t care if some might perceive those as gimmicky or somesuch, they’re flat out delicious. In the last couple years Oxbow has opened their barrel house and tasting room right next door, and those are close enough to most everything else that you could do just those or a whole walking tour (or uber/lyft) of a ton of breweries. Worth a stop, very friendly.

Right next door to the Portland Oxbow location, so an easy two-for-one here...other than the fact this place has fairly limited hours.

Very bright and welcoming store front. A u-shaped bar where tastings are offered (as well as full pours and bottles to go). They offer a flight of about seven meads. In general, their still meads were fine, but nothing amazing. I preferred the sparkling meads they had like the iced tea and the lavender lemonade, personally.

Friendly and knowledgeable young woman working the bar was able to answer lots of questions we had about the meads and the meadery.

Nothing mindblowing offered here, but worth a stop when you go to Oxbow.

Visited February 2016 during Maine Brewbus tour. Clean small places. Had many samples from their bottles. I am not friend of meads so they were little bot of boring for me but tour inside meadery was very interesting because it was first time for me inside meadery.

Pleasant interior which hides the warehouse production vibe in the back. They have a few parking spots in the front and there’s also street parking. Has more of a wine tasting room feel with a standing bar. They have tasting flights available as well as 4 ounce pours. I thought the Chai, the Lavendar, and iced tea were the real standouts. I’d go back again when new styles were released.

Very quick stop. Tasting flights available. Selection of bottles to go as well. Nice cosy interior. Very friendly owner.

Bright, open tasting room. Small, but could probably fit a decent crowd. A meadery dog was present, and while it was a standoffish dog, it still adds to the ambience. Bartender was friendly and informative. Flight of 7 meads for $7, 1 ounce pours each. Bottles available in line with mead prices. Meads themselves tended to be on the sweet side but were solid overall. Worthwhile stop.

I’ve toured this place a couple times, it’s a fun afternoon activity. You get to try all the meads and go on a short tour. They have a really unusual process for making the mead which doesn’t really come across in the tour. The mead comes out very dry but flavorful due to this process, a lot of people like it who hate mead normally. Oxbow is right behind off to the right of the building, making a nice double header. Do it.