Unless you're a big fan of Renaissance fairs or a die-hard beekeeper, you probably have fairly limited experience drinking fermented honey. Let's face it: Mead has long ranked lower than both beer and ...

There was a time when the Earth did not crawl with grapevines and that austere beverage that we call wine was a thing unknown. Yet people still liked to knock back a few every now and then, and for ...

Put a glass of white wine to your nose, and, with the right winemaker and the right grapes, floral notes rise up. With a glass of mead, it is as if you were holding the flowers themselves. “One bottle ...

Mead has unflattering image problems, and the most common imagery may be what you think of at your local renaissance fair. That drink is overly sweet yet insipid — a drink you would reluctantly sip as ...