Ever had mead ? I tried it yesterday.
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I'd probably try it given the opportunity. It's a relatively low content drink, right? Not a spirit?
Yes, mead is fermented honey, so (naturally) it always has honey. Did you have any oranges in it as well? Those are good.
I tried it when I went to the Lake district. We went in some funky off license and it was expensive, but it was good. Also tried sake for the first time when we were there. Tried it warm. Tried it cold. It just tasted like weak vodka, lol.
My ex and I brewed a few litres of it at uni a couple of years ago.
Our filter wasn't very good, and I don't think the brewing went correctly (she wouldn't listen to my opinion, a biochemist who makes stuff like this in labs on occasion).
It wasn't too nice - and I was surprised that it was a yellow/clear colour.
However I have had some really great mead since (too drunk to remember where it was!) that was a much darker colour, and tasted far nicer. Either that or the drinking horn just made it *right*.
In short, dark mead good (but very hard to find, moreso than even mead), light mead not so good. I prefer ale I think.
Our filter wasn't very good, and I don't think the brewing went correctly (she wouldn't listen to my opinion, a biochemist who makes stuff like this in labs on occasion).
It wasn't too nice - and I was surprised that it was a yellow/clear colour.
However I have had some really great mead since (too drunk to remember where it was!) that was a much darker colour, and tasted far nicer. Either that or the drinking horn just made it *right*.
In short, dark mead good (but very hard to find, moreso than even mead), light mead not so good. I prefer ale I think.
Had it awhile ago at a Jewish Bar Mitzah.
Quite liked it, but I don't like alcohol in general, so it's not my favourite drink.
Quite liked it, but I don't like alcohol in general, so it's not my favourite drink.
I really don't like alcohol overall, but I've been curious about mead for a while. I know it's made from honey, so it probably wouldn't have one of the three problems I have with most other drinks (taste). Yet to see whether it retains the nausea or throat-burning sensation...
You didn't drink enough to start humming "Wild Child," then? Underachiever.Gorfias said:
Alcohol fermented from honey, I believe.The Austin said:
It has been known to happen. I advise you get yourself a drinking horn and quaff mead until you bleed from your eyes.Jiggabyte said:
That's my friend doing just that at a festival a few years back. Mead is a beautiful drink, one of my favorite alcoholic tipples. Tried to brew my own a while back (and it tasted... not very nice), but I want another go soon.
So sweet and delicious
The stuff you can buy in Cornwall is the tastiest damned mead I've had, but I always run out of money before stocking up whenever I go
I had a horn o' mead at a Samhein celebration once, and then some at festive occasions before that. The Samhein mead was something else though. Quite good, that.
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On-topic, mead is interesting stuff but it doesn't have quite the richness of flavor complexity as a good wine or a beer. I like it plenty (or should I say "liked", y'know, 14 years of sobriety and all that), but it's not as richly textured flavor-wise as the more common alcohols out there.