Mead Info

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1. Traditional - water, honey & yeast, much like a Reisling or Chardonay wine but with a unique flavor of its own
2. Melomel - mead flavored with fruits such as apricot, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry grapefruit, mulberry, peach, plum, strawberry, raspberry, pear, and more. This category is further broken down into three more varieties:

• Cyser - melomel with apple juice
• Pyment - melomel with grape juice
• Braggot (or bracket) - an ale or beer mead with hops and malted barley

3. Metheglin and Hippocras - spiced meads that may have originally been created to cover the flavor of fermentation contamination.This category includes such flavors as bergamot (sometimes called Earl Grey) lavender, nutmeg, vanilla, jasmine, clove and more. Of course these categories are very broad. Some meads are both spiced and have fruit flavors. Some are sparkling (carbonated) and some are still. There are so many combinations that it can make your head spin. In the right hand column are some links for meaderies, history, lore, recipes and suppliers to further your studies