Cider and Mead

Cider
Cider, or hard cider, is made from the frementation of apples.
Mead
Introduction
Mead is an alcoholic beverage produced from fermented honey. Its strength can vary, but most commercial mead varieties have a similar alcohol percentage to wines. It tends to be quite sweet, with an obvious honey flavour.

Mead Varieties

• A spiced mead is known as a metheglyn or metheglin.
• Sack mead is especiall sweet mead.
• Especially sweet spiced mead is a sack metheglin.
• A mead produced with fruit added is called a melomel. However if the fruit is grapes, it would be a pyment.
• If both fruit and spices are added to the mead, a hippocras is produced.
• Cyser is a mead produced by fermenting honey with apple juice.

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