For the uninitiated, mead is a drink made by fermenting honey. Hailed as humanity’s first foray into making alcoholic beverages, mead predates both beer and wine.

The meadery now has about 90 mead recipes, the most popular being the peach habanero mead. After perfecting their methods, Fagan and Kurtz opened Honnibrook in a 1,000-square-foot warehouse unit ...