Mead is an alcoholic beverage that is made from fermented honey. It generally has a higher alcohol content than beer, usually around 10%.
Types of Mead
Braggot is an ale and a mead combined. Or ale brewed with more than 50% of the fermentables coming from honey.
Melomel is mead fermented with fruit.
Cyser is a blend of honey and apple juice fermented together.
Pyment is mead fermented with grapes.
Metheglin is mead fermented with herbs or spices.
Hippocras is spiced pyment.
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