Hello my name is Mitch Carpenter I would like to thank anyone who happens to read this for taking the time I am very interested in making wine specifically mead In the article on mead it says that mead is traditionally made with beer yeast and has an ABV of between 8 and 18 This can not be true as beer yeasts generally don t go much beyond 10 ABV Alcohol By Volume This is a very important difference between wine and beer otherwise you d just call barley wine barley ale or beer The second point is that Honey Wine is generally not made with fruit of any kind If you used grapes it would be a pyment and if you used fruit it would be a malomel It is noted in the lists of various kinds of mead and kind of defeats the basic premise of the article to label it such Again thanks for reading this and I would appreciate any feedback that I might receive Mitch Carpenter