page_title: Medovukha
hierarchical_section_title: Medovukha
caption_attribution_description: Русский: «Чарка мёду». Частное собрание English: Cup of honey drink (mead)
context_page_description: Medovukha is a Slavic honey-based alcoholic beverage very similar to mead but cheaper and faster to make. These two words are related and go back to the Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Known in Eastern Europe since pagan times, it remained popular well into the 19th century.
context_section_description: Medovukha (Russian: медовуха, Ukrainian: медуха, Belarusian: мядуха, медавуха) is a Slavic honey-based alcoholic beverage very similar to mead but cheaper and faster to make. These two words are related and go back to the Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (honey). Known in Eastern Europe since pagan times, it remained popular well into the 19th century (unlike in Western Europe, where by the Middle Ages mead had already been mostly replaced by wine and beer).
caption: Konstantin Makovsky's painting featuring Medovukha.
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