Mead Types

Question 1

Acerglyn

Answer 1

made with honey and maple syrup

Question 2

Bracket

Answer 2

Good ale mixed with honey or drink made form honey and grain - the link between mead and ale

Question 3

Brochet

Answer 3

Dehydrate honey by boiling, then dilute it (burnt-sack mead), carmelized honey

Question 4

Capsicumel

Answer 4

Mead made with hot or mild peppers

Question 5

Clarre/Clarree (french) orPyment/Pigment (english)

Answer 5

Middle Ages - red wine and honey (some spiced)

Question 6

Cyser or Ciser

Answer 6

Apple juice & honey - bouquet of sherry

Question 7

Great Mead

Answer 7

Any mead made with the intention of being aged over several years

Question 8

Hippocras

Answer 8

similar to Clarre (sugar in place of honey), herbs added to make it medicinal

Question 9

Mead

Answer 9

Honey wine, bouquet similar to french whites - Moselles and drier Sauternes

Question 10

Melomel

Answer 10

similar to pyment, made with fruit other than grapes

Question 11

Melomeli

Answer 11

Roman - Honey & Fruit juice wine

Question 12

Metheglin

Answer 12

mead must and gruits (herbs and spices) or spiced mead

Question 13

Metheglin spices

Answer 13

well burnt ginger, lemon juice, cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmeg, well bruised juniper berries, jamaica pepper, sweet briar, rosemary…

Question 14

Miodomel

Answer 14

Polish - Mead flavored with hops

Question 15

Morat

Answer 15

Mulberry juice and honey

Question 16

Mulsum

Answer 16

Roman dessert/aperitif of honey, wine and water (4 wine to 1 honey)

Question 17

Muscadine Mead

Answer 17

Made with Muscadine wine

Question 18

Myritis

Answer 18

Roman - Honey, old wine & myrtle berries

Question 19

Omphaconel

Answer 19

A mead made with Verjuice (the juice of unripened grapes)

Question 20

Oxymel

Answer 20

Mead with wine vinegar

Question 21

Pyment

Answer 21

Greek/Roman - Honey added to grape wines to fortify

Question 22

Raspberry Sack Mead

Answer 22

Poland - juice of raspberries and honey fermented together

Question 23

Rhodomel

Answer 23

an ancient Grecian mead flavored with roses

Question 24

Sack-Mead

Answer 24

Full bodied strong and sweet to dry, made from a greater strength of honey, similar to Hungarian sweet wines “Imperial Tokay”

Question 25

Sack-Metheglin

Answer 25

stronger, sweeter metheglin, similar to Vermouth wines

Question 26

Saragossa Wine

Answer 26

Pyment variant - 1qt wine w/ a sprig of rue, a handful of fennel roots and 3lbs honey

Question 27

Soma

Answer 27

Yellow plant juice, milk, barley meal, & honey (preceded mead - sacred, brought immortality)

Question 28

White Hippocras

Answer 28

cinnamon, refined sugar and white wine