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Beleg813:
Haha Cowboy you are the first person (and I've told loads of friends, coworkers about my honey mead brewing ideas) to want to try some. I'll hold you to it! I'll send you a batch of my first mix of honey mead. Whether that's a good thing or not will have to wait till you taste it! I'm 27 so, I'm of age to drink (barely I know :P), now to make good honey mead--I'm still probably too young.

Keith, that sounds really good on a hot summer day or a biting cold day. I think there are probably as many recipes for mead as there are for anything else that you could brew. I've always had notorious ground-breaking hangovers from Champagne perhaps it's the carbonation at that level coupled with alcohol...and thusly also why the Vikings had bad-hangovers. We'll just have to ask Cowboy after he tries my first batch :P

D. Tiller, it's funny but my first impression of Vikings (ok a bit of personal research so someone more knowledgeable please jump in!) were that they were all based, lived, fought, etc in the Scandinavian region...but they were pretty spread out (sea-faring as they were), and I do have some Viking heritage it seems...maybe it's my Viking heritage that is prompting me to think about brewing some old honey mead :D

DanaM--yeup from what I've read what type of honey you choose has a huge effect on the taste. Granted clover honey and raspberry honey are different, but what makes it awesome to me is that they gather the sweetness from whatever plants are nearby as well. So, you get this interesting sort of random flavor mix...perhaps even if you were to get two raspberry honey's from two different bee'ers. That's just way cool to me :)

david w.:
A brother at our Parish makes honey mead.  He recently gave us a bottle. A Brother making mead suprised me

Beleg813:

--- Quote from: david w. on October 18, 2007, 07:03:23 pm ---A brother at our Parish makes honey mead.  He recently gave us a bottle. A Brother making mead suprised me

--- End quote ---

Now, see, that's a profession I could do...lotta reading, lotta mead-making, lotta drinking, and a whole lotta prayin' for forgiveness about drinkin too much :D

Joking aside, a really good buddy of mine went to Christian Brothers University....he informed me that all of the brothers (monks) were not only ridiculously educated...but also heavy drinkers :)

Dane:
Dont you all think there is a reason why so many monesteries in Europe make various types of distilled stuff? :) I guess legend has it the guy who invented Champaigne was a monk. A very good brand is named after him, but I can't spell it. B&B was made by the Benedictines, and the Trapist monks make some good stuff. Some of the finest beers are made by religious orders in Germay. Hurrah.

You can get commerically brewed and bottled mead in a good liquor store, if you have to try it soon. I have a bottle downstairs, but haven't yet tried it.

Dane

Hillbilly:
The old-timers of my grandfather's generation here in the Smokies used to brew up a sort of high-test mead known as " methaglin". I guess the recipe came over from the Scottish highlands with their ancestors. I never got a chance to try any, but it sounds interesting. I doubt if anybody makes it around here these days.

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