by Virginia Davis (From the Fall ’89 Meadmakers Journal) 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...
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 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 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 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...
