| I imagine that many a cup of mead or barley wine was raised at many a neolithic celebration to express a similar sentiment. |
| It was among the Vikings, however, that wild and woolly culture of the North Atlantic, that mead really came into its own. |
| The difference is that mead is fermented honey and water, while metheglin usually means mead infused heavily with herbs. |
| Tasmania is setting up a specialty fruit wine association to promote the production of meads, ciders, pure fruit wines and liqueurs. |
| All the preceding afternoon and night heavy thunderstorms had hissed down upon the meads. |
| Hot steaming rains fell frequently, hindering the late haymaking in the other meads. |
