Entries Categorized as 'Mead'

Mead Day – Saturday, August 1st

Date July 29, 2009

Mead Day, organized by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), is a national event to help increase camaraderie among homebrewers and meadmakers to introduce or reintroduce the meadmaking hobby.
Each year on the first Saturday in August, homebrewers around the nation are encouraged to invite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate by making mead.
One local [...]

National Mead Day – Saturday, August 2

Date August 1, 2008

Wait, hold on, what the heck is mead?
The definition from the Brewers Association website describes it as:   A fermented beverage made from honey which is sometimes referred to as “honey wine.”
Plausibly humankind’s first fermented beverage, mead has evolved and expanded its range through the millennia to include other fermentables such as fruit and malt [...]