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The term honey wine is sometimes used as a synonym for mead, [9] [10] although wine is typically defined to be the product of fermented grapes or certain other fruits, [11] and some cultures have honey wines that are distinct from mead. The honey wine of Hungary, for example, is the fermentation of honey-sweetened pomace of grapes or other ...
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. [60] Mead was produced in ancient history throughout Europe, Africa and Asia, [61] and was known in Europe before grape wine. [62]
However, some of these products do require the addition of sugar or honey to make them palatable and to increase the alcoholic content (sugar is converted to alcohol in the fermentation). Two commonly produced varieties are elderberry wine and dandelion wine. A wine made from elderberry flowers is called elder blow wine.
A meadery, explained Caleb Ahles, a co-founder of NJ Elixir, manufactures mead, a honey-based alcohol beverage.
Tej (from Amharic: ጠጅ, romanized: t'äǧ, pronounced; Tigrinya: ሜስ, romanized: més; Oromo: Daadhi) is a honey wine, like mead, that is brewed and consumed in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It has an alcohol content generally ranging from 7 to 11%. [ 1 ]
A meadery is a winery or brewery that produces honey wines or meads, and which sells them commercially. [1] [2] There are craft meaderies emerging all over North America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand where each meadery produces various styles of meads, such as fruit meads, traditional meads, session meads, and braggots (mead-beer hybrids).