7. Metheglin: Making Herbal Mead Like a Viking

Learn to make herbal mead, AKA metheglin, using simple processes and ingredients from your garden or farmer’s market. Mead is a simple fermented honey alcoholic beverage. Adding herbs and spices for their flavoring and medicinal qualities makes your mead a metheglin (or metheglyn) from the Welsh meddyglyn (“healing drink”). In this video, we’ll be making a refreshing, invigorating lemon balm and pineapple mint metheglin.

In this video, you’ll learn:

  • How to procure and properly utilize ingredients for mead-making.
  • How to gather and use basic equipment for mead-making.
  • Tips for using different types of yeast to ferment your mead.
  • The basic process for starting your first batch of mead.
  • How to store, age, bottle and drink your mead creation.

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