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The Comprehensive guide to types of Mead
There are quite a few different types of meads and these are named depending on how you make them and what you add to them. Typically, if you add a fruit to the mead then you are making something called a Melomel. The name Melomel applies to any mead made with fruit.
Here are some of the more common types of mead:
- Melomel: Mead made with fruit added
- Braggot (or Bracket) Mead made with malted grain (usually barley)
- Hydromel: This is the term for a weak or watered down mead
- Pyment: This is mead made with grape or grape juice added. This is also the term for a grape wine that has honey added to it.
- Cyser - A mead made with apples or apple juice
- Metheglin: A mead made with added spices - often considered to have medicinal traits. Some common spices are cinnamon, nutmeg or cloves
- Rhodomel : An ancient Roman term for a mead made with rose petals
- Sack Mead: A mead with a very high honey content. It has a high density and is often sweeter than typical meads. This can be thought of as a dessert wine of meads.
- Show Mead: This is a term that has come to define a plain mead with no spices or fruits added.
- Short Mead : (Also referred to as a quick mead) this is a mead that is made in a fashion so it matures quickly. Short meads are often very similar to ales.
- Great Mead: Kind of like the opposite of a Short Mead. This mead is designed to be bottled and aged for several years.
- Sparkling Mead: A carbonated mead much like a sparkling wine. This is usually achieved by adding a small amount of honey or sugar just before bottling. This causes a small secondary ferment while in the bottle that will elevate the pressure and sweetness.
- Morat: A Melomel made from Mulberries
- Hippocras: A pyment to which spices have been added
- Omphacomel: mead made with verjuice which is the juice of unripened grapes. This is often considered to be a type of pyment.
- Oxymel - Made with wine vinegar
- Acerglyn - Mead made with maple syrup
- Bochet - refers to a mead that was made with the honey caramelized or burned before it is added to the water. Creates several different flavors including toffee, chocolate or marshamallow.
- Capsicumel - Flavored with chili pepper
- Black Mead - Made with Black Currants
- Mulled Mead - This refers to a mead that is heated before drinking. Typically it has spices for flavoring.
Meads around the world:
- Tej - Ethiopian mead
- Acan - Native Mexican Mead
- Acerglyn - Made with Maple syrup
- Gverc - Croatian variety of mead
- Dwojniak - Polish mead using equal amounts of honey and water
- Poltorak - Polish mead made with two parts water and one part honey
- Czworniak - Polish mead made with three parts water and one part honey
- Sima - A finnish mead seasoned with lemon
- Pitarilla - Mayan mead made with the bark of the balche tree
- Medica - Slovenian and Croation mead
- Dandaghare - Nepalese mead made with Himilayan herbs and spices.
- Medovina - Eastern European mead , Czech republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Bosnia
- Medovukha - Eastern Slavic mead
- iQhilika - South African
Faux Meads or Mead-like Drinks:
- Mulsum - A drink made from fermented wine that has had honey freshly added to it. This is an ancient Roman drink.
- Conditum - another Roman recipe that mixes wine with honey and added spices. Conditum, is aged rather than being served immediately.
Names for Mead over the Centuries:
- Med - Slavic
- Midus - Baltic
- Medd - Welsh
- Mid - Old Irish
- Madhu - Sanskrit
- Nectar: Greek term possibly meaning mead
- Ambrosia: Also possibly an ancient name for mead
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