Mead

Index

1. Types of Mead
   1. Standard
   2. Fortified Wine
   3. Spiced
   4. Fruit
2. Ritual Use
3. Purveyors of Mead
4. Related Links
5. Further Reading

Types of Mead

Standard

Typically, Mead is a fermented alcoholic drink, made from honey, water and yeast. The blossoms from which the honey is derived, drastically alter the taste of the final drink.

Fortified Wine

The most common mead that is normally sold to the tourists, is not really mead at all, but infact, white wine, which has been fortified with honey.

Spiced

Mead that contains spices or herbs is called Metheglin (from the Welsh, Meddyglyn). Metheglin is an ideal preservative for herbs and spices, and would be used to keep healing herbs over winter.

Fruit

Mead that contains summer fruit is called Melomel, and is a useful way to store summer fruits for the winter, e.g. gooseberry, blackcurrant or strawberry.

Ritual Use

Describe Ritual Use for Mead here, also see Drinking Horn.

Purveyors of Mead

• Moniack Castle Mead

• Lindisfarne Mead

• The Scottish Mead Company

• ''Harvest Gold Mead'' at TheDrinkShop.com

• Orchard Hive & Vine

• Lurgashall Winery

Related Links

• Got Mead?

Further Reading

• Mead at WikiPedia, Various.

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