- Valhalla Honey Mead 14.5% Alc
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What a Beautiful Sipping Drink and recycle the bottle, a beautiful earthware bottle with cork to keep your olive oil in
Makes this drink very inexpensive
The Drink Of Vikings !
Honey is used in a small number of alcoholic beverages, either as a base ingredient or a sweetening flavour enhancer. Until the discovery of cane sugar, honey was one of the very few sweeteners available and was considered an indulgent luxury. Only the rich and powerful could spare honey for use in the production of beer and wine, and even then it was used primarily to improve the flavour of weak ales.
Mead is the most prominent example of a product fermented from honey. The honey is first mixed with water and sometimes grain mash (from which it is separated following fermentation) and the resulting liquid is then allowed to ferment. The alcoholic strength of mead varies from 8-17 per cent ABV, unless fortified with grape spirit or grain spirit. Regional variants of mead exist in several localities around the world, such as Hydromel in France, Honigwein in Germany and Toaka in Madagascar. Mead which has been aromatized with herbs and/or spices is known as Metheglin. The most common additions to Metheglin are lavender, thyme, mint, cloves, cinnamon and ginger.
Honey
Honey, the essence of mead
It is widely (mistakenly) thought that mead was invented in the monasteries of medieval Europe. In fact, the original versions were made by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians several thousand years earlier.
A natural and relatively accessible product, honey provided an obvious base for mankind’s first experiments with fermentation, and almost certainly predates grapes and grain as ingredients in alcoholic beverages.
It is likely that the first mead was made accidentally rather than deliberately, perhaps the by-product of a moist honey pot left out in the sunshine.
Like wine, mead has strong religious associations, although rather than being directly sanctioned by God, it was the by-product of work carried out in his name. In the Dark Ages, monasteries were a symbol of light, in both real and metaphorical senses – not only were they centres of learning and enlightenment, but they were also one of the few places where candles were a requirement rather than a luxury. Beehives kept as a source of beeswax inevitably also provided honey for the table, although the production ratio of wax to honey meant there was often more honey than required. It was this surplus that was turned into mead.
For centuries, mead was made and consumed in monasteries all over Europe. Those blessed with suitable terroir (particularly in Burgundy) also made wine, and the Cistercian monks of northwestern Europe also made their famous Trappist beers, the early forms of which may well have included honey.
Honey liqueurs are quite distinct from mead and are most often made from a grain-spirit base sweetened with honey.
Is Mead good for your health?
The main ingredient of mead being honey, it is believed to possess a variety of benefits as it comprises of more than 180 substances which include minerals, enzymes, vitamins, antitoxic, and sugars. It also contains pollen which contains more proteins essential for good health than beef.
What is the Viking drink mead?
Mead (”Old English: medu, meodu”), (Old Norse mjöð), (”Danish: Mjød”) is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey, water, and yeast, and if you want more flavours, you can just add different herbs, fruits, grains or spices, so you can tweak it to your liking.
Mead, is a drink for the gods, is mentioned in Greek myths as well as Norse mythology where the god Odin was said to have gained his strength because he drank mead as a suckling baby. Vikings also believed that when they died honourable deaths and reached Valhalla, they would be rewarded with mead.
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