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Tej: Ancient Honey Beer

Miriam Kresh Petach Tikvah, Israel February, 2003 Introduction My Tej-making adventure started with the WildWines list’s comments on mead-making and primitive booze in particular. We all thought that Tej was a form of mead, but I quickly found out it is not a...

IX. Newsgroups and Mailing Lists

Lots of folks talking about mead in lots of places with lots of other people. Newsgroups you can find mead discussions on: rec.crafts.meadmaking The art and lore of making mead. rec.crafts.brewing rec.crafts.winemaking alt.beer.home-brewing alt.hobbies.beekeeping...

VIII. Weblinks

NOTE: Web sites come and go, and move. Some of these links may no longer be active. Please check the links section for current links. http://www.circus.com/~omni/mead.html The Mead Brewing Archive http://www.persocom.com.br/api-df/apidf.htm API-DF HIDROMEL MEAD MAKERS...

VII. Articles

Safe Brewing by Miriam Kresh Tej – Ancient Honey Beer by Miriam Kresh How is Your Sex Drive, Honey? – BBC News Healing with Mead by Dr. med. Gabi Greve – Okayama, Japan Mede in Japan by Dr. med. Gabi Greve – Okayama, Japan A Treatise on Mead...

VI. Wine and Winemaking

Leon Adams.  _The Wines of America_  San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 1990. Stanley Anderson & Dorothy Anderson.  _Winemaking: Recipes, Equipment, and Techniques for Making Wine at Home_  New York: Harcourt  Brace & Company, 1989. ...

V. General Interest

Eva Crane. _The Archaeology of Beekeeping_ New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-80140-1609-4 Gene Ford. _The Benefits of Moderate Drinking: Alcohol, Health, and Society_ San Francisco: Wine Appreciation Guild, 1988. ISBN 0-932664-60-1 D. E. Le Sage. _Bees...

IV. Historical Sources

Cindy Renfrow. _A sip through time: A collection of old brewing recipes_ 1994. Published by the author, Sussex, New Jersey, 1994." ISBN 0-9628598-3-4 Lady Arwen Evaine fert Rhys ap Gyynedd. _Handbook of brewing (Compleat anachronist)_ Number 5, March 1983....

III. Other Resources with Sections on Meadmaking

Sanborn C. Brown. _Wines & Beers of Old New England: A How-To-Do-It History_ Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England, 1978. ISBN 0-87451-148-8Terry Garey. _Joy of Home Wine Making_ New York: Avon Books, 1996. ISBN 0-380-78227-8Hagen, Ann. A...

II. Honey

Eva Crane. _A Book of Honey_ New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-19-286010-0 Eva Crane. _Honey: A comprehensive survey_ New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc., 1975, ISBN 0-8448-0062-7 Dadant & sons, editors. _The Hive and the Honey Bee: A New...

I. Mead and Mead Making

Bryan Acton & Peter Duncan. _Making Mead –: A Complete Guide to the Making of Sweet and Dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment and Cyser,_ Ann Arbor, Michigan: G.W. Kent Inc., 1984. ISBN 0-9619072-8-2 Brother Adam. _Mead_ International Bee Research...

References

Well, no historical section is complete without references, and we've collected what we can find, both online and off, with the help of many texts, and several excellent human resources, the most prominent of which is Dan McFeeley, mead historian extraordinaire....
Drinking Vessels

Drinking Vessels

I see lots of questions and speculation on the 'proper' drinking and storage vessels for mead by those interested in being historically correct. So, I'm digging up pictures and references for those people, in the hopes that they'll find what they are...
Archeological Evidence

Archeological Evidence

You’ll see in the Myths & Legends section that mead has a long and romantic life in the stories of many cultures. However, it’s always nice to be able to back those stories up with some sort of documented evidence. We’ve decided to dig through...

Mead Lover’s Digest #0099 Thu 18 March 1993

Mead Lover's Digest #99 Thu 18 March 1993Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and ConsumingJohn Dilley, Digest CoordinatorContents:caromel again ("Daniel F McConnell")honey subsidies? (Dick Dunn)Carrot Wine Recipie… (Mark Taratoot)1st batch results...

Mead Lover’s Digest #0098 Tue 16 March 1993

Mead Lover's Digest #98 Tue 16 March 1993Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and ConsumingJohn Dilley, Digest CoordinatorContents:Newbie questions. (COYOTE)A few beginner questions (Gregory Owen)Send articles for submission to the digest to...