Episode 271 - Historical Meads and Metheglins

The Mead House

May 01 2025 | 00:50:56

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Show Notes

The guys spend some time reviewing historical ingredients used across a variety of historical cultures all around the globe. Chris issues a friendly challenge to brew a historical mead recipe (see the link below) and the guys sample some obscure herbs and spices for making meads getting ideas for future projects. The Queen’s Mead recipe (Courtesy of Brew Your Own Magazine) Jeff’s Editorial Note – The fruit I was thinking of but couldn’t remember the name of off the top of my head was medlars! However, persimmons and the quince which we mentioned elsewhere in the episode also fall into […]

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