Once the drink of choice for Viking marauders and medieval kings, mead is enjoying a renaissance in popularity. The "nectar of the gods" is easy to make at home. This practical guidebook will inspire you to take up the craft, with a basic guide to mead-making techniques plus 43 recipes for brewing the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. Discover how to make different types of mead like fruit-flavored melomels, grape-based pyments, spiced metheglins, and apple cysers.
Bryan Acton was President of the Tunbridge Wells Guild and a member of the Greenhill Wine Guild.
Peter Duncan was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1959 with a first class honor BS in chemistry. He founded the Huron (Canada) Wine Guild, has been a member of both the Canadian and British National Guilds of Judges and used to write a popular weekly column called The Winemaker's Forum for local and national newspapers.