"Peter Pichler" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all,
>
> Trust me, I have scoured the Usenet high and wide, but did not find any
> mead-making newsgroup (at least not that my ISP would carry). Is it
> something that can be discussed here? After all, mead *is* honey wine :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

I've made a variety of mead products over the last 5 or 6 years. My favorite
is a rose mead; I added a quart of white rose petals to each gallon of must.
I finally found a use for that monstrous rose bush alongside the driveway.
Pyment is also good; grape flavored mead. One of the side benefits of
getting involved in mead is that you'll pick up a lot of good words for
Scrabble; pyment, cyser, melomel, etc.

I've generally found that meads take at least a year of age before they're
drinkable; three or four years is better.

Paul