Mead Wine

Re: Mead Wine

• TarheelsInNJ member

  February 2009

  That's so interesting! I would have assumed it's because mead is made from honey   Is honey supposed to be a fertility booster? Hmm....

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• Moosesoar member

  February 2009

  That stuff is too sweet... but it is made from honey, no?!
  

  
  
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• Melaina25 member

  February 2009

  I'm pretty sure mead was called the "honeymoon" wine because 1) it is made for honey and 2) the term honeymoon didn't exist, it is possibly derived from the fact that new couples were given enough mead for a moth.

  Or at least that's what wiki says...

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• TeamRey

  February 2009

  Mead is a honey wine, with origins obscured in the mists of time. It's considered by many to be the first alcoholic beverage created, predating both grape wine and beer. It was mentioned in Beowulf and known to the Greeks and Romans. The Romans knew mead as 'ambrosia' and felt it was sent to them by the gods. Romans would also add honey directly into still wine, as a sweetener, to create sort of a mulled wine drink.

  Mead is perhaps best known as the drink of the Celts and Vikings. Norse warriors would expect to find women with mead in the afterlife of Valhalla. For all of these reasons, mead is beloved by reenactors everywhere as an authentic drink of the medieval times.

  In fact, mead is at the root of the term "honeymoon"! When a couple was married, they would traditionally drink mead for the month after the wedding. This was supposed to help produce a baby boy.

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• happysong

  February 2009

  I don't have a clue, but this post is making me want a glass!

  

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• TeamRey

  February 2009

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