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Despite a long-standing tradition of mead consumption, the beverage is a niche product in Poland. In 2013, about 600,000 litres of mead were sold in Poland, [22] compared with 142.5 million litres of wine sold during the same period. [23] Mead amounted to 0.5 percent of total alcohol consumption in Poland in 2013. [21]
Mead is a drink widely considered to have been discovered prior to the advent of both agriculture and ceramic pottery in the Neolithic, [17] due to the prevalence of naturally occurring fermentation and the distribution of eusocial honey-producing insects worldwide; [18] as a result, it is hard to pinpoint the exact historical origin of mead given the possibility of multiple discovery or ...
The words mead and medovukha are closely related and go back to the Proto-Indo-European word*médʰu (honey). Produced in Eastern Europe since pagan times, it remained popular well into the 19th century (unlike in Western Europe, where by the Middle Ages mead had already been mostly replaced by wine and beer). [citation needed]
Mead hall. A reconstructed Viking Age longhouse (28.5 metres long) in Denmark. Among the early Germanic peoples, a mead hall or feasting hall was a large building with a single room intended to receive guests and serve as a center of community social life. From the fifth century to the Early Middle Ages such a building was the residence of a ...
Drinking horn. A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic Europe, and in the Caucasus.
It is called poiré in France and produced mostly in Lower Normandy there. A branded sweet perry known as Babycham, marketed principally as a women's drink and sold in miniature champagne-style bottles, was once popular in the UK but has become unfashionable. Another related drink is a form of mead, known as cyser. Cyser is a blend of honey and ...
Lindisfarne Mead is a mead from Northumberland in North East England. It is manufactured in St Aidan's Winery on Holy Island . [ 1 ] The mead is unusual in that it blends honey, the traditional main ingredient of mead, with grapes.
Mead, also called honey wine, is created by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with various fruits, spices, grains, or hops. As long as the primary substance fermented is honey, the drink is considered mead. [72] Mead was produced in ancient history throughout Europe, Africa and Asia, [73] and was known in Europe before grape wine. [74]