The Artaic Double IPA with Mosaic Hops and wildflower honey comes from Trillium Brewing Company, a small farmhouse brewery in Boston.

The Dwarf Invasion from B Nektar is a mead made with tart Balaton cherries and Styrian Golding hops. Overall, the mead and label are good. A few little misses here and there keep it from being great. But good is good – refreshing and quite drinkable.

While the hop plant has been widely revered by beer drinkers, it is only lately making its way into mead making. Here are four hoppy meads sure to convert those hop-lovin’ beer drinkers to the sweeter side of craft brews.

A saison style mead recipe with saaz hops, french saison yeast and orange blossom honey. Very refreshing mead for harvest time.