Mead Making

Mead wine is the oldest alcohol containing drink known to man. In prehistoric times, honey would drip from bee hives and collect in pools of rain water. Wild yeast would consume the sugar and produce the nectar of the gods. Almost every civilization has lore and myths associated with the consumption of mead.  As these civilizations grew, honey became less plentiful.  A substitute source of fermentable sugar was needed to fill the thirsty demand for wine.  It is not by chance that wine made from honey tastes very much like the grape wines we drink today.

Most people expect a honey sweet, syrupy drink better suited for pancakes and not the light, dry clean flavor of fine white wine.  There should be no surprise. It is not by accident that grape wine tastes so much like mead.  Grape wine tastes like mead and not the other way around.  There was a time when all wine was made of honey and the grape version was unknown.  This was thousands and thousands of years ago when honey was plentiful and flowed like milk.  The saying "The Land of Milk and Honey" may be a reference to this point in history.