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Meadiocrity Mead Wants Honey Wine to Be the Next Craft Beer
These San Diego bee-to-bottle evangelists want to get everyone on board with mead.
Dylan Sprouse (Yes, That Dylan Sprouse) Is Making Artisanal Mead
We spoke to the actor-slash-master-brewer about Heathenism and honey wine.
How to Make Medicinal Honey Wine in the Middle of the Jungle
“I always had equated alcohol with being bad for you, and then I tasted some honey wine and it felt good."
This Tiny Island Is Still Making Mead the Medieval Way
Lindisfarne, a tidal island off the Northumberland coast, has been home to mead-makers since St. Aidan founded a monastery here in 634 AD. Today, Lindisfarne Mead is made with honey, fermented grape juice, and water drawn from the island.
Some of the World's Finest Mead Is Being Made Inside These Catacombs
Crawl one hundred feet down inside the cold, damp tunnels of Paris's legendary Catacombs to taste some of the finest booze.
Vikings Were Great Cooks Long Before The Rest of Us
As a Scandinavian chef, I've immersed myself into our history to figure out how people have pulled through our freezing winters.
Tasting the Highs and Lows of Ethiopian Honey Wine
Tej is Ethiopian mead—a honey wine flavored with a hops-like herb and often made at home or at tej houses. The stuff for tourists is sweet and smooth, but real-deal tej carries notes of diesel.
You Don't Have to Be a Viking to Drink Mead
The artificially carbonated swill marketed as mead is nothing like the real stuff, but at least a few mead-makers are still sticking to tradition—using nothing more than honey, water, and a bit of yeast.
Getting Drunk Like a Medieval Lord Could Help Save the Honeybee
A resurgence in the popularity of mead-drinking (thanks, Game of Thrones) has led to an increase in demand for honey, something that could help the plight of the UK honeybee.
Medieval Cuisine Is Saving the UK's Biggest Party Town
Captain Jack’s, a medieval-themed restaurant in the Cornish town of Newquay has one rule: “You can swear. You can shout. But you can’t do both.”
There Will Be Drought: America's Water Situation Keeps Getting Worse
Water's so scarce, America is now considering a massive aqueduct from Missouri to Denver.