Cider & Mead

Cider

At Bacchanalia we think it’s important to have cider made from apples, so you will not find commercial ciders made of water & artificial flavourings.  We are also in luck with the amount of orchards in the area & therefore local ciders.

Mead

Mead is a fermented alcoholic beverage made of honey, water, and yeast. Meadhing (ˈmɛ.ðɪŋ) is the practice of brewing mead.[citation needed] Mead is also colloquially known as “honey wine”. A brewery that deals specifically in mead is called either a meadery or a mazery.

A mead that also contains spices (such as cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg), or herbs (such as oregano, hops, or even lavender or chamomile), is called a metheglin (IPA: /mɨˈθɛglɪn/).[1][2] The English usage is derived from the Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic meduz. Slavic miod / med, which means “honey”, and Baltic *midus, which means “mead”, derive from the same Proto-Indo-European root (cf. Welsh medd, Old Irish mid, and Sanskrit madhu).

A mead that contains fruit (such as raspberry, blackberry or strawberry) is called a melomel[4], which was also used as a means of food preservation, keeping summer produce for the winter. A mead that is fermented with grape juice is called a pyment.

Mulled mead is a popular winter holiday drink, where mead is flavored with spices (and sometimes various fruits) and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it.

Bacchanalia sells a wide range of meads. Why not pick some up for your next holiday party?