by Allen Breed (AP) PITTSBORO, N.C. — Mead, that drink of viking saga and medieval verse, is making a comeback. But this ain’t your ancestors’ honey wine. “It’s not just for the Renaissance fair anymore,” says Becky Starr, co-owner of...
(hosted article) by Yannick Chauvet If you remember, few weeks ago I wrote an article about Brovarnia, where Michał Saks is working. He is also doing homemade mead and this year he won 2 awards at the Mazer Cup 2010 with his elder flowers mead. If you don’t know, mead...
ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2004) — PHILADELPHIA, PA, December 2004 Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice,...
Ancient beverage provides sweet window into man's history with fermentationSue Vorenberg | The New Mexican9/9/2008 – 9/10/08There's nothing like swigging back a mug full of mead, grabbing your ax, donning your furs and sailing off to pillage new lands....
Libations: Tapping into the Past and Dreading the Hangover by Samir S. Patel, Archeology Today November/December 2007 Volume 60 Number 6 Early Neolithic people in Jiahu, a village in China’s Henan Province, invented the earliest known alcoholic beverage. As the...
