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Past & Present - The Many Faces of Mead

SomaYellow plant juice, milk, barley meal, & honey (preceded mead – sacred, brought immortality)
MulsumRoman dessert/aperitif of honey, wine and water (4 wine to 1 honey)
MyritisRoman – Honey, old wine & myrtle berries
MelomeliRoman – Honey & Fruit juice wine
PymentGreek/Roman – Honey added to grape wines to fortify
Clarre/Clarree (french) or Pyment/Pigment (english)Middle Ages – red wine and honey (some spiced)
Hippocrassimilar to Clarre (sugar in place of honey), herbs added to make it medicinal
White Hippocrascinnamon, refined sugar and white wine
Saragossa WinePyment variant – 1qt wine w/ a sprig of rue, a handful of fennel roots and 3lbs honey
Raspberry Sack MeadPoland – juice of raspberries and honey fermented together
MoratMulberry juice and honey
BracketGood ale mixed with honey or drink made form honey and grain – the link between mead and ale
BrochetDehydrate honey by boiling, then dilute it (burnt-sack mead)
MiodomelPolish – Mead flavored with hops
Metheglinspiced mead
Metheglin Brandy 
Sack-Metheglinstronger, sweeter metheglin, similar to Vermouth wines
MeadHoney wine, bouquet similar to french whites – Moselles and drier Sauternes
Sack-MeadFull bodied strong and sweet to dry, made from a greater strength of honey, similar to Hungarian sweet wines “Imperial Tokay”
Metheglinmead must and gruits (herbs and spices)
Cyser or CiserApple juice & honey – bouquet of sherry
Melomelsimilar to pyment, made with fruit other than grapes
Metheglin spices“well burnt” ginger, lemon juice, cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmeg, well bruised juniper berries, jamaica pepper, sweet briar, rosemary….

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