num_pages: 64
description: Fill your flagon with a drink fit for a king! Once the drink of choice for Viking marauders and medieval kings mead is enjoying a renaissance in popularity! The nectar of the gods is easy to make at home using just honey water and yeast. This practical guidebook will inspire you to take up the craft with a basic guide to mead-making techniques plus 43 recipes for brewing the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. Making Your Own Mead shows you how to produce an array of tasty mead variations by blending honey with herbs spices fruits berries and more. Just because mead is made from honey doesn't mean it has to be sweet! Versatile mead can be dry as a bone or seductively sweet sparkling or still fruity or spicy. Discover how to make different types of mead like fruit-flavored melomels grape-based pyments spiced metheglins and apple cysers. You'll also find recipes for mixing up your mead in classic drinks like a honey bishop or a twelfth night wassail.
language: English
title: Making Your Own Mead: 43 Recipes for Homemade Honey Wines (Fox Chapel Publishing) Basic Guide to Techniques, plus Recipes for Mead, Fruit Melomels, Grape Pyments, Spiced Metheglins, & Apple Cysers
publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing