How many people know what mead is and have tried it?

Question

Who know what it is? if you know tell me

Answer 1

I make the stuff, its easy to do and is just fermented honey. you take 3 jars of honey, 2 lemons and brewers yeast and nutrient. add lemon juice to boiled honey. add water and stir. add yeast and nutrient. put in demi john leave till bubbles stop. done. your need to siphon it into a new demi john with a campden tablet to kill germs till it clears. it is quite sweet though

Answer 2

I have never tried it but did find this article on it. I have heard of it and it has been around for thousands of years in England mostly I believe. I want to give it a try too some day.

Mead is a honey wine, with origins obscured in the mists of time. It's considered by many to be the first alcoholic beverage created, predating both grape wine and beer. It was mentioned in Beowulf and known to the Greeks and Romans. The Romans knew mead as 'ambrosia' and felt it was sent to them by the gods. Romans would also add honey directly into still wine, as a sweetener, to create sort of a mulled wine drink.

Mead is perhaps best known as the drink of the Celts and Vikings. Norse warriors would expect to find women with mead in the afterlife of Valhalla. For all of these reasons, mead is beloved by reenactors everywhere as an authentic drink of the medieval times.

In fact, mead is at the root of the term "honeymoon"! When a couple was married, they would traditionally drink mead for the month after the wedding. This was supposed to help produce a baby boy.

There are various styles of mead:


Cyser: Mead with apples or grape juice added
Hippocras: Mead with grape juice and spices
Metheglin: Mead with cloves, cinnamon, or other spices
Melomel: Mead with fruit juices and perhaps spices
Pyment: Mead with grape juice added
Sack: Extra-honey meads (note this term also applies to Sherry!)
Traditional: simply honey, water, and yeast
Mead is generally a light, fruity drink, light yellow in color. It should be drunk very soon after purchase. Mead goes wonderfully with salmon, chicken and turkey. It also tends to do well as a Mulled wine or marinade, as well as a dessert wine.

Answer 3

not tried it but this is what it is
Mead is a fermented alcoholic beverage made of honey, water, and yeast. Meadhing (pronounced: /ˈmɛ.ðɪŋ/) is the practice of brewing honey. Mead is also known as "honey wine," even if it is considered a separate and distinct type of alcoholic beverage.

A mead that also contains spices (like cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg) or herbs (such as oregano or even lavender or chamomile) is called metheglin. This word is derived from the Welsh word meddyglyn, meaning "medicinal liquor", as healing herbs were often stored as metheglin so they would be available over the winter (as well as making them much easier to swallow). Slavic miod/med, which means "honey", derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root.

A mead that contains fruit (such as strawberry, blackcurrant or even rose hips) is called melomel and was also used as a means of food preservation, keeping summer produce for the winter.

Mulled mead is a popular winter holiday drink, where mead is flavored with spices and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it.

Answer 4

I drink it quite often. It's delicious. There are two types, honey mead and spiced mead. Honey is the nicest because it's sweetest. Also, you can get mead liqueur which is delicious.

Answer 5

I had mead in a crock-pot warm one cold Xmas, it was delicious, it was a mix of mulled wines, honey, cinnamon sticks and other spices... it was some 18 years ago, Ive never had it again but it was so unreal I shall never forget it and I'm not even a drinker normally... good luck , I hope you try it sometime and enjoy it as much as I did...

Answer 6

I have some on the go at the moment. You can get recipes off of the Internet. I made mine with Honey and also used some rose petals to enhance the taste of flowers. I HOPE IT'S GONNA BE OK EEEEEEEK

I think the number of people that know exactly what it is is 42, hmmmmmmmmseb

Answer 7

Do you want an exact number of people that know what it is? What an odd question. Nobody is going to be able to tell you how many people know what mead is.

Answer 8

Mead is a honey wine.
WIne is made from fermented grapes. Fruit wine (blackberry, raspberry, etc) is fermented fruit. Mead is wine fermented from honey.

Answer 9

You can try making your own mead at home; Here's a really easy recipe...

http://www.otolith.com/howitt/mead.html


Cheers!

Answer 10

It's a sort of honey based liqueur. I tried some at the factory on Lindisfarne and it was pretty good.