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The basic theme:
If it's good for ancient Druids, runnin' nekkid through the wuids,
Drinkin' strange fermented fluids, it's good enough for me!
- Pete Seeger
A real multimeadia experience -JC
The Mead Maker's Page
Mead making, it's a must! -ZS
Honey is to mead as malt is to beer and grapes are to wine. -FC
| Mead Types and Ingredients | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Ingredients | ||
| mead | honey, optional flavoring ingredients | ||
| sack mead | strong mead made with extra honey | ||
| show mead | honey | ||
| braggot | honey and malt | ||
| capsicumel | honey with chile pepper ....try it, it's not very hot ;-) | ||
| cyser | honey and apples | ||
| hippocras | honey, grapes and spices | ||
| hydromel | a less common name for mead, also the French name | ||
| melomel, mulsum | honey and fruit | ||
| metheglin | honey and spices | ||
| miodomel | honey and hops | ||
| mora | honey and mulberries | ||
| omphacomel | honey with verjuice, the juice of unripe grapes | ||
| oxymel | mead mixed with wine vinegar | ||
| pyment, pyment-claree | honey and grapes | ||
| rhodomel | honey with attar, a rose petal distillate | ||
| thalassiomel | honey and sea water | ||
| weirdomel | honey with other unusual flavorings [RCD] | ||
| Mead Names from Around the World | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Explanation | ||
| aguamiel | Spanish mead | ||
| ayahuasca | Amazonian mind liberating liquid | ||
| balche | Mayan state altering mead made with balche bark | ||
| chouchen | Breton (France) mead | ||
| hidromel | Portugese mead | ||
| hydromel | French mead | ||
| idromele | Italian mead | ||
| iQhilika | South African mead | ||
| madhu | Indian Sanskrit word for mead | ||
| mézbor | Hungarian honey wine | ||
| med | Ukranian mead | ||
| meddeglyn or myddyglyn | Welsh spiced mead | ||
| mede | Dutch mead | ||
| medica | Slovenian mead | ||
| medovina | Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak mead | ||
| medovukha | Russian mead | ||
| medu | German mead (historical name) | ||
| meis | Eritrean mead | ||
| meodu | Olde English mead | ||
| met | German mead | ||
| midus | Lithuanian mead | ||
| miòd | Polish mead | ||
| mjød | Danish and Norwegian mead | ||
| mjöd | Swedish mead | ||
| mõdu | Estonian honey beer | ||
| nabidh | Arabic mead | ||
| sima | Finnish mead | ||
| tej | Ethiopian mead | ||
| ydromeli | Greek mead | ||
| yeyin dvash | Hebrew mead | ||
| Honey Names | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Country/Language | ||
| dvash | Hebrew | ||
| hunaja | Finnish | ||
| honig | German | ||
| honning | Norwegian | ||
| honung | Swedish | ||
| med | Bulgarian and Slovenian | ||
| medus | Lithuanian and/or Latvian honey | ||
| mel | Welsh, Brazilian, (and others) | ||
| miel | Spanish | ||
| mjod | Russian | ||
| ngarlu | Australian Aboriginal honey | ||
| tapli | Georgian (in the Caucasus) | ||
Much of the above information has been sent to me by readers of this page, your input is greatly appreciated.
Here's some info on a group called the American Mead Association , not to be confused with the other AMA. Also, see the American Homebrewers Association. A point of interest: the word MEDicine is derived from the word MEAD. In other words, it'll cure what ales you. Never mind what ales will do. Apparently, the word metheglin is similar to the Welsh form of the word medicine.
On a similar note, mead folklore suggests that you skim the scum that riseth to the top of the must during the pasteurization stage. We have also adopted that traditional technique.
Some form of moderation is generally a good policy when drinking mead, as with any alcoholic beverage, your mileage may vary. You control the vertical, you control the horizontal, don't drink and drive, tuck your shirt in, etc...
Dick Dunn's Mead page with The Mead-Lover's Digest archives.
The Mead-Lovers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is a must read ;-)
Honey Locator helps you find your local bee keeper.
Mead as defined on Wikipedia
The International Mead Festival (Boulder, CO)
LindisFarne Mead Island of Lindisfarne, England
Magpie Farms Bainbridge, New York, USA
Makana Meadery South Africa
Maxwell Wines South Australia
Medovina.com Niwot, Colorado, USA
Redstone Meadery Boulder, Colorado, USA
Commercial Meadery Directory by Dan McFeeley
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