Mead is a fermented beverage made of honey, water, and yeast. Yeast converts the sugars in the honey to alcohol during fermentation. Various other ingredients may be added to the mead to create various types of mead. Mead with spices is called a methyglyn. A melomel is mead with fruit, or fruit juice. Some more common fruits make a particular type of melomel: cyser (apple), perimel (pear), pyment (grapes). U2M made unique meads, including flower meads which we call floramels. A mead with rose petals is call a rhodomel, but I don't think there is an official name for violets, lilacs, woodruff and lavender that we have used. U2M also used the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, which is 'tuna' in Spanish. U2M tuna meads were made with fruit, not fish.
TF/U2M brewing techniques.
Forrest Cook's Mead Page has a list with more types of mead and other information.
Visit Got Mead, a complete mead resource.
Talisman Farm is home of the Mead-Lovers Digest. Last updated in 2014.
Good books include The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing by Charlie Papazian (Avon Books), and The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm (Brewers Publications).
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