B. Nektar Meadery

By FAR the VERY BEST mead we’ve tasted (not too sweet, too strong, or too much like liquor, JUST PERFECT)!!! We try to make it here at least a few times a year! And just when you feel a slight buzz coming on, sometimes you get this sweet clarity right after — they’ve gotta be using good ingredients!!!

Love this place! We used to go to the old warehouse location and loved it there but the new taproom is even better. Very friendly, casual, and inviting.
B. Nektar is redefining meads and ciders. Their creativity in the selection is impressive and there is always something new on the menu. There is even a mead slushy of the day! If you don’t think you like mead, at least give this a try. You will be pleasantly surprised.
The only downfall is that not enough people know about this place. Once the word gets out it will be packed all the time!
Pro Tip: They don’t have food other than some good snacks but you can bring your own food or order delivery!

We came in here on a week night to try this place finally since we live down the way. The tasting room is large and has a ton of seating. You order at the counter and take it to your seat. I loved the Zombie Killer and their hopped cider. The regular mead was a bit too sweet for my taste buds. The wet hopped was my favorite full of flavor and well balanced so it was not to sweet.
The only thing I would change is the plastic cups they serve the mead and beer in. Not my favorite to feel like I am drinking out of a cup from the dentist. Its also a bit pricy here so careful when ordering tasters to not go wild.

Clean, modern design, knowledgeable staff. They had a very large selection and offered tastes before you make your decision. Comfortable environment. Only disappointment is that the actual mead-​making magic happens down the street.

Went to the meadery for a specific party in the back, so we missed out on the calm ambience. The servers were awesome in explaining mead and trying to figure out what nonmead drinkers might like. The names were great and the drinks interesting. If you like mead I’d definitely try it out. Nice and clean with a GREAT sense of humor.

Please know this going in, you don’t tip, which makes each drink about $ 9 to provide a living wage to employees.
The drinks are good, the place is wood trim and airy, the staff is friendly and fast. The area is a little industrial and parking is a little tough but nowhere near as bad as the strip in Ferndale.
It is pretty good, but not wonderful. The prices are a shock until you factor in the ‘no tip’.
This is just me, but some of the drink names are overdone to the point you may avoid ordering just because they are hard to pronounce.

Very cool little taproom in a unique setting. B. Nektar’s taproom is tucked away in a little warehouse in an industrial park just south of 9 Mile in Ferndale without any obvious signage — keep your eyes peeled!
Inside, the staff is quite friendly and helpful. They have about 9 meads on tap, 3 ciders, and 3 beers. Décor is pretty bare bones. Entertainment consists of a few board games, a TV projector for playing YouTube videos, and the bartender plays music off of Pandora. Pretty low key crowd, definitely not a raucous party-​type atmosphere. Very relaxing.
I’ll definitely be back!

I hadn’t ever had mead before so it was cool to try a variety of different flavors– and it was a bunch of us, so we got to sample pretty much everything they had on the menu. I wasn’t a huge fan of the chai cider– pretty sweet– but their other cider was respectable, and we also tried the black tea+lemon mead as well as the mango pepper mead. These don’t have crazy strong tastes like the ambitious sour beers can be, but they’re pleasant and nuanced– the black tea one seriously tastes like a beer incarnation of an Arnold Palmer, which is a dangerously delicious idea. Atmosphere is a typical, warehousey brewery feel, and it’s nice to be reminded that there are parts of Ferndale that are not Woodward or Nine Mile.
I subtract a couple of stars because it’s pretty exorbitant and, loath though I am in general to trek up to the suburbs to spend my money, $ 7.25 for a 10-​ounce works out to $ 11.60 a pint, which is, including a tip, more than twice as expensive as your average craft brewery at full price. Considering they’re selling it directly as opposed to re-​selling through a bar, that seems pretty outrageous. I suppose I do like their «no tipping since we pay our employees a fair wage,» but that doesn’t make their product less preposterously expensive. So, overall good stuff and a fun atmosphere, but quality wasn’t mindblowing enough to make me a regular, especially at those price points.

Went here with a few friends. I enjoyed the Zombie Killer but a tiny plastic cup for almost $ 8 is crazy. Not coming back.

What is not to love about B Nektar? They now have slushies which are not only made of their best mead, but also are delicious! If you are a purist, then they have regular mead and beer (last time I was there they had a lemongrass saison). I am anxiously waiting for the Zombies Take Manhattan, but they said it’s still in the barrels and will be for a bit.
Since they do not serve food, we have brought our own food in here to enjoy with the mead and beer. The people here are always very helpful and nice. I love taking my friends and family here!

5 stars. This place is spectacular. So unique. It feels like an underground meadery that only the elite drinkers know about. Definitely coming back

Their place is a little off the beaten path but it is a great place to hangout, play board games, watch stuff off of their projector, and so much more. If you want to play some board games, but forgot yours, they have a few that aren’t on display. All you have to do is ask and you shall receive. They offer a huge variety of mead, cider, and beer. It’s a very laid back atmosphere and a very large interior which is great for big groups. They even had slushies for these hot and humid summer days. They don’t serve food here yet, but we have it on good authority that they are in the works for it.

They finally opened up a Tap Room… I mean a REAL Tap Room off of Jarvis and Wanda (not Wordsworth and Wanda)
It is nice to still see the friendly faces of B. Nektar after moving back.
There mead is quite nice. Different from the Honey Mead sold at the Renaissance Festival that originally turned me onto mead. If there is one that is close to that, I certainly have not found it yet :-(
Zombie Killer is by far my favorite. I think it is actually a cider, but it is yummy!
They recently came out with a Wildberry Pyment which is 14% alcohol. I hope they keep this one. It is more like a sweet, red wine with a slight carbonation to it. I really hope they can keep this one around because then IT is my top choice… I like that is more like wine then some watered down concoction like Kill All the Golfers. Also a fan of the Necromangocon which is what my husband will drink while he waits patiently for them to come of with some sort of beer.
I saw them moving in an arcade game. Hoping they get a few more.
I tip my hat to B. Nektar for constantly striving for the best and making improvements needed along the way.
They typically have a Mead Fest in May so check around in 2016. Tickets for tasting, food trucks for eating and a warehouse where you can get meads by the bottle or the case!

I adore little start-​ups like B. Nektar! I love supporting them with my business, I enjoy talking right with the owners, I appreciate that they’re not crowded and overpriced.
We went on a Sunday afternoon and there were only a handful of people present. We chatted with the brewers while we made our selections. We completely enjoyed their cherry mead, their sage lime witbier, and their dwarf invasion mead. Be forewarned that you’re essentially sitting around a warehouse. There’s no food, although they did have a few complimentary snacks. Ask for food recommendations at the bar — there are several local places that deliver food.

I’m an avid beer, wine, and mead drinker. I’ve had mead from quite a few different places, but the one place that I’ll always count on for a good drink is B. Nektar.
Have you had mead before? Was it sold simply as «mead»? Did it kinda taste like honey and seltzer water? I’ve had some pretty dull meads in the past and never thought much of them before. Then I visited B. Nektar.
Its current location is in an old industrial park. It has a large garage door and a large production working in back. I’ve been to a lot of micro breweries before, and I wouldn’t consider this micro anything. It’s quite a large operation for a local favorite. There’s not much to the place really, and you’ll be glad to find that there are in fact bathrooms.
Order in some food, then get a mead. Eat, drink, socialize. Bring some friends with you to make it a night out. If it’s cold out, you may sometimes find that wearing a jacket is well worth it. No, they don’t serve food, but they have seriously some of the best meads you can buy, and they don’t mind you bringing something in to munch. Try them cold straight from the tap and buy some bottles before you head out. There seems to always be an experimental something or other on the list too.
Mead usually most closely resembles a dessert wine. I’ve never once gotten a hangover from it, and it’s quite a different kind of lift. The aromatics can be quite complex, and the flavors just linger with satisfaction. Truth be told, B. Nektar is so heavenly, it’s like angels pissing in your mouth. So it gets better. They’re opening a new taproom, and I hear it may even have food! The taproom is going to open sometime this year, possibly pretty soon actually.
If you visit B. Nektar and find an awesome fellow named Jeff, you’ve found some pretty good company. He’ll keep your glasses full and will be sure to keep your conversation lively. The baristas definitely keep the show together and top the experience off with a good vibe.

cool industrial spot hiding in Ferndale. Their meads are all very inventive and different. It’s worth trying a flight or a few glasses and relaxing!
Reasonable prices make everything more tempting and delicious. Very cool to see the mead scene picking up in Michigan — Schramm’s is downtown in Ferndale as well, though they both have extremely different styles and taprooms.
When we visited B. Nektar, there was a corporate party next door blasting music, and «Cabin in the woods» playing on a projector in the taproom. A super eclectic group of people populated B. Nektar, from meganerds to a couple people in business attire, and everything in between. A good place to feel included, or maybe extra cool?
My favorite is the evil genius — a hopped mead. Delicious!

Ugh… so many mixed feelings for this review. I love B Nektar. LOVE it. It’s almost always my first choice to bring to a party, and now that they have individual bottles, it makes it even easier to enjoy one of my favorite alcoholic beverages.
Here’s what I don’t love: their tasting room reminded me of someone’s basement, and not in a good way. Long tables and folding chairs, a projector showing some LOUD, awful shrieking band, etc. The staff was friendly and helpful (and let you try samples, always a bonus) — but there was nothing cozy about the tasting room. From now on, I’ll be stopping in for a carry out.

Well having tried their mead I had to take a visit. This place is not what I expected! In a «garage» or «warehouse» is the best description for it. The drinks are fantastic and the guys working there were very friendly. They helped us with selecting some drinks and advised us on others we may enjoy as well. Giving samples along the way. I’d love to see this place at their peak, (some time other than Sunday afternoon, I’d assume) but with drinks this great how can you not love them. Even though the building and the neighborhood is sketchy, how can I not want to return.
Thanks B. Nektar for a great afternoon!

I love a booze company that has a sense of humor. I like them even more when their product tastes good. The Zombie Killer Cherry Cyser is pretty darn tasty. The crazed art on the label is the topper. It goes down maybe a little too smooth? I can see getting loaded on this stuff way too easily

Closed today do to inclement weather, but they gave me a personal tour anyway. They are in an industrial area, and the business is located in an old machine shop, but in spite of all that … you don’t need to wear a suit and tie to get in (grin!)
Friendly service, decent prices for their products, and the mead is honestly good! Talk to your server and they will make recommendations based upon your taste. Selections can be purchased by the cup, and take home is available by the bottle, but apparently many customers buy a case at a time.