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.
The Process
External Links
- [1] Making your first mead
*East Cowdry Bootleggers A short history & home-brewing recipes
- Gotmead.com A large site with over 1200 pages of mead-related info
- MeadWorks.ca A Canadian-based mead brewing club, resource, and Ezine
- RealBeer.com Mead resources
- Mead Lovers Digest
- Aboutmead.com Mead resource, tasting notes and a searchable archive of the Mead Lovers Digest
