Wine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Honey ==== {{Main|Mead}} Mead, also called honey wine, is created by fermenting [[honey]] with water, sometimes with various fruits, spices, grains, or [[hops]]. As long as the primary substance fermented is honey, the drink is considered mead.<ref>{{cite book|title=Rites of Odin|first=Edward|last=Fitch|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|year=1990 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kg8nObaAZMEC |isbn=978-0-87542-224-4|page=290|location=St. Paul, Minnesota}}</ref> Mead was produced in ancient history throughout Europe, Africa and Asia,<ref>Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat (Anthea Bell, tr.) ''The History of Food'', 2nd ed. 2009:30.</ref> and was known in Europe before grape wine.<ref name=Hornsey>{{cite book| last=Hornsey | first =Ian| title=A History of Beer and Brewing | publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry | year=2003 | page=7| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QqnvNsgas20C | isbn=978-0-85404-630-0 | quote=...mead was known in Europe long before wine, although archaeological evidence of it is rather ambiguous. This is principally because the confirmed presence of beeswax or certain types of pollen ... is only indicative of the presence of honey (which could have been used for sweetening some other drink) β not necessarily of the production of mead. }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page