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Beleg813:
There's something that really makes me want to make some old honey mead, traditional as possible, and drink it out of a polished / decorated horn...

I've read loads on some brewing of mead, wines, beers, just not the real old-school traditional form of it. Anyone ever experimented with anything like this?

cowboy:
Send me a gallon - I'll let ya know what I think ;D, how old ya say ya were? Sorry couldn't resist - I've never heard of it.

Knocker:
Beleg813,

I gave a couple of gallons of honey (I keep bees) to a friend that is a brewmaster.  A year or so later I got two types of mead in return.  One was "regular" and the other had some ginger in it.  Sounds wierd, but tastes great on a hot summer day.  He said he uses champagne yeast to get a bit more bubbly and more fermentation.  Somewhere I saw a reciepe for mead that was supposedly copied right off of an old viking's tombstone.

Be careful.  I have a theory that the vikings were so mean because the sugar in their honey mead gave them excruciating hang overs...

Keith

D. Tiller:
Ya Sure! Ya Betcha! Dem der me ancestor ya talken bout. Nah wer my axe! (Burp!)  :o

DanaM:
From what I've read mead can vary in flavor based upon what type of flowers the bees made their honey from.

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