Sunday 9th March 2014

[ValeTudoGuy]

Do we have to ask for them haha? I'd PM deano but you know...

He tends to come along like an angel from above and switch them on at an opportune moment..... Either that or you post in a relevant thread asking.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Oh I could be very interested in that!

Then it shall be so! be warned though, it can be potent and it is no quick task to get the best out of it, a small amount of aging is preferable.

[Edamski]

If it comes to that I'll ask

Sounds like a fine cigar then 😊

[ValeTudoGuy]

Sounds like a fine cigar then 

Thats the Mead..... The cigar was so so.

[Edamski]

Thats the Mead..... The cigar was so so.

That's what I meant ^.^

[Sean]

It will be pretty easy to persuade me to make another batch soon, if your interested then a few bottles could see their way in your direction!

What is mead mate

[PeeJay]

What is mead mate

Alcohol made from honey Sean.

[mattyhall22]

It used to be the favourite tipple of Monks pre Beer

[Sgt_Banter]

Mead is a bit like a very sweet wine but it's far too sweet for me when I've tried it

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[james.uk]

Sunday 9th March 2014


Romeo Churchill, must be 10 years old, wonderful.

[JoeyGunz]

H Upmann 2012 LE Robusto taking a stroll around Hampton Court catching the last of sundays sun! Flawless

[ValeTudoGuy]

Mead is a bit like a very sweet wine but it's far too sweet for me when I've tried it

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However you can make dry mead, as you can wine. It's all down to the fermentation.

Sean: Mead is honey wine, though it can be fermented with the addition of fruit of all sorts if it takes your fancy. The potential for different mead recipes is almost endless.

Oh and the Vikings drank buckets of the stuff.

[Sgt_Banter]

However you can make dry mead, as you can wine. It's all down to the fermentation.

Sean: Mead is honey wine, though it can be fermented with the addition of fruit of all sorts if it takes your fancy. The potential for different mead recipes is almost endless.

Oh and the Vikings drank buckets of the stuff.

Yeah tbf I've not really experimented with trying different types. I think the last I had was from Jorvik Viking Centre which maybe isn't the best example. Saying that, the beer they sell in there (Rudgate Brewery) is half decent so who knows

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[ValeTudoGuy]

Types of Mead:


Acerglyn - Honey and Maple - Sweet
Bochet - Burnt Honey - Tastes like liquid toffee
Braggot - With added Hopps - Taste half way like beer
Cyser - Honey and Apples - effectively half cider
Great mead - Long aged, supposedly well rounded (Never had it, mine never lasts that long.)
Hydromel - Watered down table mead - very refreshing
Melomel - Fruit mead - huge variety
Metheglin - Standard mead though can have herbs - ranges from sweet to dry
Rhodomel - Rose hip mead (Never had it, could be a summer project.)
Sack mead - very strong almost like what port is to wine - very sweet
Short mead - Short aged, usually fizzy - often quite dry
Sima - Fast fermented low alcohol lemon mead - drunk at Vappu (Walpurgis Day)


There are others, even African traditional meads... Though they are beyond my knowledge.

[mattyhall22]

After a few pints of mead the Vikings would go out and "Blood eagle" a few people, much like what Stella does to the teenage miscreants of today