We had a of the brewery back in april.
This week i was at the beer store on dundas w and noticed they carried 4 different flavours of mead from trafalgar so i picked up the trafalgar citrus mead.
So what is mead?
Is it a beer?
Is it a wine?
Mead has been around literally forever.
It is mentioned in the bible and evidence shows it has been drank by vikings, babylonians, egyptian, celtic, indian, african and scandinavians.
In fact, mead is found on every continent except antarctica.
So again, what is mead?
In its most basic form, mead is simply fermented honey and water.
As legend would have it, in ancient babylon th he could drink during one lunar month.
So what is mead?
Mead is just that.
I do like this warning i found about drinking mead from.
One friend reported a twoday hangover as a result of drinking a fair amount of the tasty liquid.
There is some speculation that the natural preservative ingredients in honey may have something to do with this effect.
The susceptibility to mead hangovers varies considerably from person to person.
Consumption of water between glasses of mead is recommended.
Being made from honey, i really expected something sickly sweet, which is why i chose the citrus.
It looks like a cloudy white wine.
The smell of alcohol is prominent in the aroma with a hint of citrus.
Interesting is that the inside of the cap has bubbles, which i would take to be sugar bubbles, although i admit i could be way wrong.
The directions on the bottle says to serve cold over ice.
I had a taste right away without ice and found the taste of alcohol overpowering the citrus.
It also was very sweet.
So i poured it over ice like i should.
And that does make a huge difference.
The ice takes away the alcohol smell and ta ste and now i found myself having a nice refreshing drink.
The ice and extra chill takes away the sweetness too.
I now find this to be a very enjoyable indeed.
Enjoyable enough to have mead again?
Trafalgar have 3 other flavours and there are over 150 meaderies in the us and.
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