Have you ever had mead?

[Kali]

:P

[handmade34]

1. used to make it, when I had bees

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. HELL, NO!!!!!!!

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MEAD IS MURTER!!!!!!!!
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[csziggy]

3. Yes, made it once. But I no longer drink.

I do have a couple of bottle of Archbishop's mead tucked away - smooth stuff. I hope it gets better with age - if so it should be great by the time someone gets around to drinking it. It's already 30 years old.

[blogslut]

4. It is my favorite fermented beverage

Years ago, when my folks took a trip to England, they brought home a bottle of Cornish Meade. It tasted like liquid heaven and I've loved mead ever since.

[XemaSab]

5. Yes

and when it's good, it's hella good.

[tekisui]

6. I've started brewing about 10 gallons this month.

Mead's great. My grandfather gave me 40 lbs of honey, so I decided to turn it into mead. I should be able to get another 50 gallons out of it.

Tonight I made a batch with a wildberry addition, blackberries and wineberries. I'll start opening bottles in a couple of months.

[Lucian]

7. I LOVE mead!

It's my favorite fermented drink! I love it warm in the winter (hot toddy) and cold in the summer.

My favorites are Sky River Sweet Mead and Bunratty Irish Meade.

[cwydro]

8. I've had it.

That stuff has a kick to it.

[AtomicKitten]

9. It's a lovely wine I used to buy at Bargetto's in Santa Cruz.

http://www.chaucerswine.com/

Haven't found a vendor here in San Francisco though. :(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. I love mead

:D :9

[Sisaruus]

11. My sister and brother-in-law make mead

They always bring me some. It's not my favorite drink.

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. MiddleFingerMomDad -- a young suburbanite husband in the 50's...

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...used to have the my-martinis-are-the-best-martinis snobbery down pat.
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Used to make me a BIG one every time I came to visit decades later...
despite being told MANY times that I couldn't STAND them.
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How did I cope?
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Let's just say their houseplants were truly potted.
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[Rambis]

12. Interesting stuff

It gets on you fast- We had a friend fire into it one night and we all kept warning this guy to take it easy but of course he did not listen. :puke:

[dembotoz]

13. had a girlfriend in college whose last name was mead

might have had an e at the end....

anyway
for a xmas present i bought her a big honking bottle of the stuff.
thought i was ever so clever.
seems her parents were not so amused.

just one of the ever so many bad gift ideas i have had for women over the years.....


no wonder i sleep alone.....

[Swede]

15. It's pretty good stuff.

Also had the distilled liquor from mead. Kickass.

[nickinSTL]

16. tasted it.

I don't drink, but I will taste stuff occasionally.

We have friends who make their own mead, and were generous enough to provide a bottle for our wedding - had a swallow of it as part of the ceremony.

I also get to try their various ale-brewing results, when they have them. They've mostly moved on to mead, though - so my wife has taken up the ale...and she hasn't done any brewing since getting her job with the census.

Likely be back to brewing soon, when that job ends.

[DarkTirade]

17. I've got a gallon brewing in the basement

and about a gallon and a half worth in bottles right now.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Yesterday.

A free taste at a Renaissance Festival.

[tigereye]

19. only bottled - can't say I liked it...

[miscsoc]

20. what the fuck is mead

i've heard of it only in the context of, like...medieval tales

i refuse to drink it, since i'm already a nerdy fuck and if i did i started drinking mead i'd be beyond the point of no return.

[Kali]

21. an original booze

it is also known as honeymeade or honey wine, fermented beverage using honey as the sugar - it can be quite light and refreshing or rich and sweet - like beers and wines.

the usual basic recipe is about a gallon of honey and enough water to make about 5 gallons - either add yeast or go all natural (risky) and ferment for longer than beer - up to several months and then age even longer after bottling. It can be still or carbonated and can be low or high in alcohol, though usually higher than most beers.

[WildEyedLiberal]

22. Yes - my favorite is Lindisfarne mead

I don't think you can get it outside of the UK, and even then, I've only seen it in the north. It tastes like liquid honey and grapes and has the smoothest, best finish of any alcohol I've ever had, ever. It is the nectar of the gods, and I'd sell - well, maybe not a whole arm, but at least some digits - if I could get a regular supply of it here in the States.

[jobycom]

23. Ever read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods?"

Despite being an amazing novel, there's a hilarious scene in it about mead, where it's compared to pickle-juice wine and a drunken diabetic's piss. Funny scene, even if you like mead (and I do, btw).

Oh yeah, and because it has to be said:

[Lilith Velkor]

24. Mead is teh awesome.