Bartending/Alcohol/Mead

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[edit] Introduction

Mead is an alcoholic beverage produced from fermented honey. Its strength can vary, but most commercial mead varieties have a similar alcohol percentage to wines. It tends to be quite sweet, with an obvious honey flavour.

[edit] Mead Varieties

• A spiced mead is known as a metheglyn or metheglin.
• Sack mead is especiall sweet mead.
• Especially sweet spiced mead is a sack metheglin.
• A mead produced with fruit added is called a melomel. However if the fruit is grapes, it would be a pyment.
• If both fruit and spices are added to the mead, a hippocras is produced.
• Cyser is a mead produced by fermenting honey with apple juice.

[edit] See also

Wikipedia has related information at Mead.

• Mead recipe in the Cookbook