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I was watching a little bit of the spelling bee last night and was amazed by the spelling skills of the kids. They left me in the dust. Anyhoo in the final rounds a word came up that surprised me: “Rhyton”. It’s an ancient Greek cup in the shape of a horn and often having the shape of an animal on the end. Sounds to me like something that would have been perfect for mead .

I guess I should give up my Mazer and graduate to the more sophisticated Rhyton

A mazer is a plain wooden bowl.

A little update on my mead making:

This weekend I am doing another video tutorial on how to make mead and next weekend I am brewing up five more batches including:
- Cranberry Walnut Mead
- Peach Mead
- Pear Mead
-Chocolate Cherry
- Cherry Vanilla

Hopefully they will be passable come the christmas holidays!

If you are curious about Mead Making you might want to take a look at my website where I have full tutorials and lots of information about the wonderful drink. The Joy of Mead

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If you would like to try something special and different for Valentine’s Day try some wine called Mead. It is brewed from honey rather than grapes; it has a beautiful golden color and a very long tradition of love.

Mead goes by many names and over the centuries it has been called honey-wine, nectar of the gods, and even honeymoon wine. This last name stemmed from a tradition to give a 30-day supply of it to newly married couples. It was said that if they drank a glass every day for the first thirty days of their marriage it would bring them happiness and fertility.

Chocolate, flowers, candy and cards are wonderful traditions that have lasted decades now. But for centuries longer there was the tradition of drinking Mead that was shared by couples. Make this holiday special and try some. It has been around for many hundreds of years and it has been speculated that it was the first alcoholic beverage ever made. This is a matter of debate but one thing that is not up for debate is the delicious nature of this beautiful wine brewed from honey.

So If you are looking for a little something special to do on Valentine’s day I recommend you give Mead a try. It is a brilliant little drink and will make for an interesting new experience and conversation piece.

Honey wine is a very popular drink world-wide but is lesser known in North America and if you are considering a purchase of it you may want to call your local wine retail shop ahead of time to see if they have any in stock.

If you want to learn more about mead or learn how to brew some mead yourself check out my website: The Art of Making Mead

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I have been getting a lot of emails and a lot of messages from people asking me how the mead making is going. The thought occurred to me that while I have been very busy posting lots of stuff about mead making on my website I haven’t posted much about it at all here on my blog.

Well, the mead making has been going great and I have quite a few batches going with supplies coming in for even more. This picture is a look at my new born meadery in the spare room. I can’t use the chalkboard for brainstorming anymore but it’s worth the sacrifice.

Anyway, I have some delicious meads fermenting including a fantastic Raspberry that is out of this world. I also have a pumpkin Mead that is developing well. I am not a big fan of pumpkin so I was really shocked at how delicious it is turning out to be. The pumpkin didn’t overwhelm it. I also have an orange cinnamon that is turning out delicious.

Making Mead very much reminds me of that Tom Petty song “The Waiting is the Hardest Part” and it is fitting because mead making requires a lot of patience. It is typical for a good mead to take several months before you can start tasting it and two or three years to age before it gets really good. 

I have learned a lot about mead over the past several months and I am continuing to make it and learn more. If you are interested in making your own mead I have complete tutorials on it on my website here: The Mead Nerd

Don’t pay attention to the mermaid in the picture :) Looks like I won’t be able to work on that for a while (I can’t reach over the mead table) . Maybe I will just name my little operation The Mermaid Meadery.

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