Mead is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages in existence — older than beer, older than wine. Fermented honey shows up in the archaeological and literary record across the Vedas of ancient India, in Greek references to ambrosia, in Ethiopian tej, and in northern European brewing long before “mead” became shorthand for Renaissance fairs and […]

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