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Mead, made with a variety of
honeys, can be thick and sweet,
but they can be thin and not so
sweet. At 1634 Meadery, Clapp
uses clover honey, orange blossom
honey and wild flower honey.
Adding locally grown fruits and
spices is where the fun is. It is also
where the creativity comes in,
along with naming the meads.
Two new meads at 1634
Meadery are Little Jack Horner,
a plum mead, using Cider Hill
Farm plums. This after-dinner
sipper has a high alcohol content,
Clapp said. There is also a new
Minuteman mead, created from
a recipe in the 1678 English
Book of Drink. It has raspberries,
grains of paradise, cloves and
cinnamon.
“That’s going to be a fun one,”
Clapp said.
Beth Borges and Carl Hirshfeld
opened House Bear Brewing in
2013 in Amesbury. Borges had
experimented with mead making
during her Babson College days
and decided to try producing
mead when she found a career in
financial services a bit tedious.
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“Humans were fooled into
thinking the northern part of the
island is more stable than it really
is,” Hein said. “They built houses
that are now valuable.”
Hein said there is a multitude
of things impacting Plum Island.
“No one thing is causing the
erosion,” he said.
According to Storm Surge,
“Erosion problems are nothing
new to the island, where six
homes were destroyed during
three major storms in the
winter of 2012-2013. Various
interventions have been made to
try to mitigate erosion problems,
Mead Growing In Popularity
Plum Island Erosion Discussed
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She was winning awards for her
mead even before the doors to the
meadery even opened.
Clapp opened 1634 Meadery
in a former motorcycle repair
shop, across from a Dunkin’
Donuts on Rte. 1A. He did not
want to name it Ipswich Mead
to avoid confusion with the wellestablished
Ipswich Ale. A friend
suggested using 1634, the date
Ipswich was founded, to give the
meadery the historic flavor he
was seeking.
An ocean engineer, Clapp
discovered mead during a family
genealogy trip to Denmark with
his aunt. His wife, Deb, a school
teacher, was not particularly
excited by mead, but she
encouraged him to follow his
passion. He found mead “cool,
different and exciting,” he said.
From a torn-down barn in
Maine he collected wood to
redecorate the motorcycle repair
shop in an old-world style. He
started researching old recipes
and stories that might be used to
give his meads a special cache. He
designed his bottles to look old
and nothing like a wine bottle.
including the rebuilding of the
south jetty in May 2013 by the
Army Corps of Engineers, the
construction of dunes along
Reservation Terrace by DCR (the
state Department of Conservation
Resources) in 2016 and the
creation of a man-made berm of
compressed sand, financed by the
City of Newburyport and Plum
Island residents in 2018. In spite
of these measures, what often
helps some residents salvage their
homes often threatens others.”
Hein credited Storm Surge’s
Mike Morris with figuring out
that there is a “see saw effect” with
the sand. The sand that is not
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Stop at the meaderies for a taste
and listen to the stories behind
their products. At 1634 Meadery,
Clapp has meads that bear such
names as Puritan Pride, a mead
that pairs well, he said, with
seafood and lobster.
He named one mead Wicked
Wench, a semi-sweet traditional
mead made with Northshore
wildflower honey. And he
named at least two for relatives.
His Beewitched Mead is named
for Elizabeth Howe, his ninth
generation aunt, who was tried
for witchcraft. The Choate Bridge
Cyser honors an uncle who
helped built the iconic bridge
over the Ipswich River.
And then there is the
Mooncusser, named for Harry
Maine, the legendary landbound
pirate who lured ships to
their destruction on Plum Island
beaches on dark nights. He was
convicted of plundering the ships
leaking through the southern jetty
onto the beach along Reservation
Terrace is being deposited on the
ocean side of the island.
Hein said he expects the topic
to be controversial. He does not
plan to offer any specific solutions
to the erosion problem, but will
leave time for questions and
discussion about his findings.
Storm Surge provides the
Greater Newburyport area with
information on the impacts
of extreme weather and longterm
climate change. For more
information about Storm
Surge-sponsored events, email
stormsurge9@gmail.com.
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