by Vicky Rowe | Mar 13, 2009 | History of Mead |
The national drink of Ethiopia is T’ej, a golden sweet honey-wine. T’ej is a mead that is indigenous to Ethiopia with roots going back to the 4th century.
In Ethiopia, T’ej is made in private homes for family consumption and is not sold commercially. Each household has its own family recipe and variations in taste result from the type of honey used, temperature, climate, materials and utensils and the time involved in making the mead. Ethiopians purchase gallons of honey at a time to produce the mead and the taste can be as individual as the imagination of the person making it. The same recipe can vary from mother to daughter, for the mead is made from instinct as much as from a recipe.
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 22, 2007 | History of Mead |
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): Physiological Theory of Fermentation, 1879from the Modern History SourcebookTranslation: F. Faulkner, and D.C. Robb,Introductory NoteLouis Pasteur was born at Dole, Jura, France, December 27, 1822, and died near Saint-Cloud,...
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 13, 2006 | History of Mead |
by Michael Sisson (reprinted with permission from the Fall 1986 AMA Newsletter) In the mid-1800's there was a revolution in France that continues to have important consequences for us up to the present day, although no blood was spilled and no kings...
by Vicky Rowe | Sep 13, 2006 | History of Mead |
by Michael Sisson (reprinted with permission from the Spring 1986 AMA Newsletter) Note: this is the first of what will be a series of articles on various aspects of the history of Mead. Pick up any book or article on Mead and you will probably read some...
by Vicky Rowe | Jun 11, 2006 | History of Mead |
by Susanne Price(reprinted with permission from the AMA Journal)In the Middle Ages, honey was used as a sweetener, a medicine, a preservative and a basic ingredient of mead. Even though sugar was first extractred and refined sometime before 2000 B.C., little sugar was...
by Vicky Rowe | Jan 2, 2006 | History of Mead |
Polish Meads at StawskiMy name is Jordan Liebman. I work for a company that imports mead from Europe, specifically Poland. The reason I am writing is because I now have some of the best mead I have ever tasted, which until last month was contraband according to FDA...
