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SUMMER MEAD SANGRIA

All the best of summer is blended together in this delicious drink recipe, fresh fruit, fireweed honey, and Solstice Metheglin mead.  Enjoy this with friends on your patio this summer!

A modern take on man’s oldest fermented beverage.  Cyser is Mead made with apples or Cider made with honey.  Sometimes the honey is fermented with the apple juice and other times a Cider is made and is back sweetened with honey.  Both beverages are referred to as Cyser but the taste of each is quite different.  When the honey is fermented in it shows more in a soft, perfumed finish that turns brandy like with ageing.  A back sweetened Cyser has more honey taste up front and a shorter, simpler finish. 

WHAT IS METHEGLIN MEAD

From healing wine to the promoter of Vigor for Julius Cesar.  Metheglin Mead has an interesting story that leads down through history to todays delicious fermented delight.

 

Nordic history is resplendent with stories about the origin of mead and how their gods came to enjoy it. Long considered an elixir of love, courage and strength the Nordic Sagas of old tell tales of how gods and mortals alike used it to their advantage.  Stories tell of gods giving goddesses cups of mead in hopes of warming their hearts and their bodies to their advances of love.

Pairing Tugwell Creek’s Meads Many people struggle with how to pair meads with foods. In our case, this is easy. Our meads are more wine like and ...