Mace Mead Works

Local mead-maker and founder of Mace Mead Works, Reggie Mace and his year-and-a-half old business have already outgrown the Dayton storefront on Main Street. This year they will branch into Blue Mountain Station along with other local small business-owners.

The station will serve as a production area for the rapidly growing business. Mace said the station will host red wine storage, blending, fil- tration and bottling, as well as the start-to-finish mead- making process. There will not be a tasting room in the station but Mace said they would of course have prod- uct for sale in the retail area there.

The station space will allow Mace Mead Works to increase production of their wine and mead. Mace said the downtown space on Main Street will max out at a few thousand cases per year, but joining up with Blue Mountain Station will allow the business to produce five or ten times that amount if the market demands it.

Mace Mead Works' downtown space will reopen after renovation on Feb. 1, and Mace said sometime in March there will be big changes to the retail and offerings. Once a new liquor license clears for Mace in March, the tasting room will also offer craft beer and cider on tap as well as specialty bottled products.