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Types of Mead

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Published on Saturday, 02 June 2012 21:08

Written by Jeff Johnston

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Mead comes in a variety of types. The simplest form only has honey water and yeast, but there is more to mead then just your standard mead.

• Traditional mead – Honey Water and Yeast
  • Sack Mead – A mead that started out with a higher concentration of honey and usually ends up higher concentration of alcohol
  • Short/Quick Mead – A mead that is not fermented to dry, or used processes to speed up fermentation and does not require aging Sir Kenelm Digby’s Weak Honey Drink is a prime example.
  • Great mead – mead that has been aged for several years
  • Hydromel – a very light and low alcohol version of mead
• Braggot – Mix of beer and mead
• Melomel – Mix of fruits and Honey
  • Black Mead – Blackcurrant based melomel
  • Cyser – Apple based melomel
  • Morat – mead with a mulberry base
  • Pyment – a blend of grapes and honey
    • Mulsum – not truly a mead at all but rather a wine mixed with honey
    • Omphacomel – honey and verjuice (common in period)
    • Oxymel – Blending of honey and wine vinegar
• Metheglin – Mix of Spices/Herbs and honey
  • Dandaghare – mead from Napal which uses Himalayan herbs and spices
  • Capsicumel – a chile pepper based Metheglin
• Acerglyn – Maple Syrup and honey based mead
• Pitarrilla – a Myan mead using honey, blanche tree bark, and water
• Rhodomel – A rosewater based mead