Varieties of Mead

Traditional Mead: A fermented honey beverage made from approximately two and one-half pounds of honey diluted with one gallon of water only.

Hydromel: Weak, or watered mead

Sack Mead: Mead that is made sweeter by the addition of twenty to twenty-five percent more honey; a sauterne-like beverage.

Metheglin Spiced mead: originally spiced with a combination of herbs (gruit) but later hops became more popular.

Sack Metheglin Sweet spiced mead: traditionally similar to vermouth.

Melomel or Mulsum Mead: made with fruit juice.

Cyser: A melomel made with apple juice or cider similar to a sherry wine.

Pyment or Clarre: A melomel made with grape juice; sometimes referred to as honey-sweetened grape wine.