Mead Types Flashcards
Acerglyn
made with honey and maple syrup
Bracket
Good ale mixed with honey or drink made form honey and grain - the link between mead and ale
Brochet
Dehydrate honey by boiling, then dilute it (burnt-sack mead), carmelized honey
Capsicumel
Mead made with hot or mild peppers
Clarre/Clarree (french) orPyment/Pigment (english)
Middle Ages - red wine and honey (some spiced)
Cyser or Ciser
Apple juice & honey - bouquet of sherry
Great Mead
Any mead made with the intention of being aged over several years
Hippocras
similar to Clarre (sugar in place of honey), herbs added to make it medicinal
Mead
Honey wine, bouquet similar to french whites - Moselles and drier Sauternes
Melomel
similar to pyment, made with fruit other than grapes
Melomeli
Roman - Honey & Fruit juice wine
Metheglin
mead must and gruits (herbs and spices) or spiced mead
Metheglin spices
well burnt ginger, lemon juice, cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmeg, well bruised juniper berries, jamaica pepper, sweet briar, rosemary…
Miodomel
Polish - Mead flavored with hops
Morat
Mulberry juice and honey
Mulsum
Roman dessert/aperitif of honey, wine and water (4 wine to 1 honey)
Muscadine Mead
Made with Muscadine wine
Myritis
Roman - Honey, old wine & myrtle berries
Omphaconel
A mead made with Verjuice (the juice of unripened grapes)
Oxymel
Mead with wine vinegar
Pyment
Greek/Roman - Honey added to grape wines to fortify
Raspberry Sack Mead
Poland - juice of raspberries and honey fermented together
Rhodomel
an ancient Grecian mead flavored with roses
Sack-Mead
Full bodied strong and sweet to dry, made from a greater strength of honey, similar to Hungarian sweet wines “Imperial Tokay”
Sack-Metheglin
stronger, sweeter metheglin, similar to Vermouth wines
Saragossa Wine
Pyment variant - 1qt wine w/ a sprig of rue, a handful of fennel roots and 3lbs honey
Soma
Yellow plant juice, milk, barley meal, & honey (preceded mead - sacred, brought immortality)
White Hippocras
cinnamon, refined sugar and white wine
