Comments on: Mead Styles: Should mead taste like wine? or beer?

By: Matt Newman

Matt Newman — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:16:42 +0000

matt, They would have been more capable of just honey and water for their mead, they also had berries, spices, fruits, vegetables, all kinds of stuff they could have experimented with, and they are renowned in my eyes just for having the clarity of mind to make such a thing to begin with.

By: Erroll

Erroll — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:56:12 +0000

Hi Matt,

The Vikings made the best mead they could with what they had, and that’s what I want to do. Since we have better ingredients, better equipment, and more knowledge, we should be able to make better mead – I’ll drink to that!

Erroll

By: matt

matt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:22:31 +0000

i dont know if vikings really sat down in the lab and tested it and decided weather to add artificial flavor 135, n such. i believe the initail mead, would have just been boil honey,… add water… we discovered drunk… lets make more…. vikings werent renound as brewers… nor rocket scientists…..

By: matt

matt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:20:25 +0000

shouldnt you look at the most basic way to creat mead… if its really as history dictates, shouldnt you just ferment honey then add water…

By: jason

jason — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:33:16 +0000

I just made my first couple of batches of mead. The batch that I am looking forward to tasting aged is one that is made with a blend of citrus fruit zests, lime lemon and orange. while making the must it had the smell of a honey lemon cough drop. as the must ferments and dries out however the flavor is like 7 up with a large honey accent.
some one on another forum wanted a replacement drink for his wife who only drinks Zima, this one will do it. I am planing to bottle some still and some carbonated. Honey; It’s all you Mead!

By: Erroll

Erroll — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:28:07 +0000

Hi Martin,

If you can waste mead on bears, I can waste syllables on sentences!

Erroll

By: Martin Alexander

Martin Alexander — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:34:12 +0000

I keep Bears, and they like mead, however it’s made. A small and pedantic (but sane) point, though: why waste three syllables on ‘beverage’ – an ugly word – when ‘drink’ is both modest and perfectly adequate, and only uses one syllable?

By: Erroll

Erroll — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:49:19 +0000

Hello Jack,

You reminded me of a line from the Princess Bride, “… that word you keep using – I don’t think it means what you think it means.” Ok, that’s only funny if you’ve seen the movie, but if you haven’t you should!

Erroll

By: Jack Keller

Jack Keller — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:48:49 +0000

Erroll, two years ago I was head judge at a winemaking competition in south Texas that had a concurrent brewing competition. The beer judges were having a spirited discussion and the words “mead” and “wine” kept flowing from their direction. Finally, I went over to see what their problem was, for clearly there was one.

Meads were entered for the first time, and the organizers had put them in the brewing competition because, well, you “brew” mead. Their problem was that most of the meads were “high alcohol,” meaning over 8% (truth be known, most were over 14%) and the judges didn’t like it. “These ought to be judged with the wines,” one said. Well, there were only 9 meads entered, so I was about to say “Send them over” when I noticed that two were listed as 7.5% abv. And that stopped me. Clearly, those two belonged with the beers. So I said, “Not my rules, not my call,” and walked back over to my side of the hall.

Until that moment I always thought that mead was “brewed” but really was a wine, but come on — 7.5% abv? That ain’t wine, my friend. That ain’t wine.

By: Dick Adams

Dick Adams — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:32:21 +0000

My entry to Mead came from looking for something to do when I became disabled. Thus, I came unburdened by either a beer or a wine mindset. This had all the learning curve of starting a new avocation where the both the industry and research have not matured. My research (constantly asking questions) has led me to my own Mead mindset where boiling honey and adding acid blend to the primary are frowned upon.

Mead, beer, wine, and hard liquors are very different alcohol products. To me, Mead is a much a honey wine as beer is a malt wine.