Facts about mead:
-Mead or honey wine is an alcoholic drink made through the fermentation of honey.
-It is likely the oldest beverage known to mankind as it dates back to Biblical times.
-It can be flavoured with herbs, spices or flowers.
-Mead was popular in early England, and although not widely distributed today, is still bottled.
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Here are some retail varieties of mead:
-Traditional: Mead produced from more than one type of honey and without fruit, herbs or spices.
-Bracket or braggot: Mead made with malt.
-Melomel: Mead made with fruit (expect apples or grapes).
-Cyser: Mead produced with apples, apple cider or apple juice.
-Metheglin: Mead produced with herbs or spices.
-Pyment: Mead prepared with grapes, grape juice or grape concentrate.
Source: Wines of Canada.
