num_pages: 64
description: Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water with yeast. A glass of lightly chilled mead on a summer's evening is a splendid delight. And yet of all the crafts of mankind mead-making is certainly one of the oldest. It is likely that mead was made even before the wheel was invented as stone-age cave paintings depict the collection of honey from bee colonies. The drink made from honey became a staple of Celtic Anglo-Saxon Medieval and Renaissance Britain. This practical book will inspire you to take up this admirable craft. It includes chapters on honey selection mead-making techniques and forty-two recipes for mead melomel (using honey mixed with fruit juice) pyment (honey mixed with grapes) hippocras (honey mixed with grapes and herbs) metheglin (spiced medicinal mead) cyser (honey mixed with apples) and other honey drinks.
language: English
title: Making Mead: A Complete Guide to the Making of Sweet and Dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment and Cyser.
publisher: Amateur Winemaker