Making Mead, 9780900841071
Paperback
Craft ancient honey wine: A guide to making delicious mead.

Making Mead

a complete guide to the making of sweet and dry mead, melomel, metheglin, hippocras, pyment and cyser

$21.28

  • Paperback

    64 pages

  • Release Date

    12 July 2012

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Summary

Unleash Your Inner Viking: The Art of Mead Making

Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water with yeast. A glass of lightly chilled mead on a summer’s evening is a splendid delight. And yet, of all the crafts of mankind, mead-making is certainly one of the oldest. It is likely that mead was made even before the wheel was invented as stone-age cave paintings depict the collection of honey from bee colonies. The drink made from honey became a staple of Celtic, Anglo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780900841071
ISBN-10:0900841079
Author:Bryan Acton
Publisher:Special Interest Model Books
Imprint:Amateur Winemaker
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:64
Release Date:12 July 2012
Weight:140g
Dimensions:209mm x 147mm x 6mm
About The Author

Bryan Acton

Peter M. Duncan was born in Perth, Scotland. He was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1959 with a first class honours B.Sc. in chemistry. Married with two sons, he has lived in Quebec, Canada since 1962. On the winemaking front, he founded the Huron 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.

Bryan Acton was educated at Eltham College and lived in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. He was introduced to winemaking by Trappist Monks in Palestine in 1943, while he was on armed service and progressed to being a member of the Amateur Winemaker National Guild of Judges.

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