Mead resources

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Meaning of the icons:

•  Site in French
•  Site in German
•  Suitable for beginner
•  If it is the first time you make mead or read about mead, forget about this one.
•  Scientific content.

General/recipe

•   L'hydre au miel
• Got mead?
• About mead
• Morse R.A.: Making mead (1992)
• Dan McConnell, K. D. Schramm & G. W. Kent: An analysis of mead, mead making and the role of its primary ingredients Composition of honey, effect of its components on mead, what honey is (from a chemistry standpoint) suitable for mead making. Discussion about whether to "pasteurize", boil, filter, sulphite, etc. honey. Discussion of fermentation (biochemistry standpoint). 14 pages. Quite a few interesting ideas for those who want to know and understand what is going on during the fermentation.
•   Streinkraus K. H. & Morse R. A.: Factors influencing the fermentation of honey in mead production, journal of apicultural research 5, 17 (1966) Research article: authors carry various experiments of mead fermentation using various chemicals and vitamins. Ingredients found in yeast nutrients sold in homebrewing stores may come from this (kind of) work.
• Mead made easy
• Bee's lees
• Mead headquarters
• Honeywine
• Mead hall
• Cats meow 3 Recipe database
• Mead FAQ
• The meadery
  • J. Crouch: Mead making handbook, Brewer's guild (1992)
• Mead maker's page
•  Rich Webb's mead discussion on preparartion of mead: 3 different points of view.
• Richard Jowsey's recipe (with pictures)
•  Herstellung von Met
• Papazian C.: Brewing mead, Brewers publications (1986) 12 p + half a dozen of basic recipes.
• National honey board: Making mead: the art and the science (2000/2001?) [pdf file] No author. Some parts look like things seen elsewhere. 7 p + 13 recipes from various books/sites.
• Spence P.: Mad about mead, Llewellyn (1997)
• K. Schramm: Compleat meadmaker, Brewers publications (2003)

History

• Gayre G. R. : Wassail ! In mazers of mead, Brewers publications (1986) (published with [H1] in a single book). Very complete.
• SCA brew
• ménagier de Paris: Bochet Recipe from the end of the XIV th century. Bilingual. Note the quantity of honey used.
• Sir Kenelme Digby: The closet Recipes written in 1669. The spelling of the name is loose: looking for more about him, also look for "Digbie".
• archbishop of Würzburg: Daz buoch von guoter spise (Das Buch von guter Spise) (1345-1354)
• Levi-Strauss C.: From honey to ashes (1966)
•   Vallee B.: L'histoire des boissons alcoolisées, Pour la science n°250 (1998)
• Hackwood F. W.: Inns, ale and drinking customs of old England (1910)
• Enright M. J.: Lady with a mead cup, Four courts press (1996)

Meetings/competitions

• Mazer cup
• Planet buzz
• Meadlennium
• Down east alers challenge
•   Concours général agricole
• meadshock Learn how to be a perfect mead steward.

Serials

•  Mead lover's digest (MLD). Letter send twice a week by e-mail. To subscribe, send an e-mail to mead-request@talisman.com.
• Zymurgy. About fermented drinks, not just mead.
• Wine maker