Can you get drunk off Mead? Its pretty rare that I get wasted off mead alone — usually its prior to or following a good deal of beer or wine. Another difference between beer, wine, and mead is alcohol content. Meads range between 6 and 20 percent ABV, depending on the fermentation; whereas wine and beer typically come in at a much lower ABV.
Mead has had a reputation in the past of producing some really nasty hangovers , but this was also in the days when there were much more poorly made meads. With so many more great meads out there, commercial and made in the home. Like wine and champagne, mead can be sweet or dry. If carbonation is not elected, the mead is referred to as still, similar in body to a still wine. As with most beverages, the key to unlocking a meads complex flavor lies in serving it at optimum temperature and allowing the meads to "breathe" before serving.
You can drink mead like a port or sherry — a slightly bigger tot at the end of the evening or a particularly nice meal. You can drink it in a wine glass throughout the evening like a nice bottle of wine — most go well with food. You could even go full Viking and enjoy your mead from a drinking horn! What does mead taste like?
When you make mead you start it out with some yeast, some honey, and some water! This recipe is called the "Must". And with lots of honey and water it can easily be a breeding ground for bacteria.
So, mead can make you sick , in a typical alcohol sense, which is a good possibility if you drink too much. There are no clinically proven health benefits to mead. Historically, though, mead has been believed to be healthy to both drink as well as to make into healing tonics. The mead of preference was one infused with spices or herbs, using the sweet drink to mask some other flavors.
However, just because mead tastes of honey does not mean it is always actually sweet. Other recipes will add sugar back into the alcohol after the primary fermentation process is complete to adjust sweetness, just like in current wine and beer fermentation practices.
Sweeter meads are thicker. Drier meads are lighter. Calorie Content Mead is a high-calorie beverage, thus, overconsumption could negatively impact your health. Drinking too much of any alcoholic beverage, including mead, can increase your blood triglycerides , blood pressure and your risk of obesity and diabetes 8. Cocktails are a great gateway for mead skeptics. According to Blumer, mead is a great replacement for wine, port, wine-based vermouth or quinquina in cocktails.
It can be shaken, stirred, poured on top—mead can be anything. Mead is especially wonderful paired with floral gin, subtler tequilas or aquavit. Crimson blackcurrant mead; and a sparkling mead called Night Eyes tops spritzes. If you are mixing with a sweeter mead try to balance out those strong honey flavors with something on the bitter side.
While mead mixology is still in its early stages, there are exciting things happening on the production side of mead that will drastically affect the mead cocktails you see hitting bar tops in the coming months. The team is also playing around with distilling mead to a higher proof spirit, something akin to aromatized wine. In the distant future, Trahan expects mead to become more regional as production grows.
Marks says that it is exactly this sort of experimentation that makes mead an incredibly exciting field at the moment. Skip to main content Drink. Seems to me slightly chilled would be nice. I've always had mead at room temperature or slightly lower cellar temp , but never chilled. I drink mine at room temp or place it in the freezer for about 10 mins. A carbonated mead definitely tastes better chilled. Vermicous Well-Known Member. The meads that are dry enough to be chardonnay-like would probably taste best chilled.
I personally love a honey aroma, room temp or cellar temps would be best for me. Mine is sparkling--so yes I think I will chill the first one. Thanks everyone! You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads N. How do you drink your mead?
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