Honey I drank, my mustache flowed ... or a mead at home

In Russia, two kinds of honey drinks were made, they differed by the technique of preparation. Honey stavleny was made by natural fermentation of honey without adding yeast and cooking. Another kind of drink from honey is cooked or honey pita. It was made from an aqueous solution of honey, in which malt (barley or rye) and all kinds of herbs for flavoring and flavoring (hop, wormwood, St. John's Wort) were added. Boiled honey refers to alcoholic beverages.

Scientists now can not say for sure whether honey differs from mead or it's the same thing. Today we will talk about the mead that is common today. This is an alcoholic beverage, for the preparation of which honey is used, which makes honey and languid tones taste. The average strength of the drink is from 10 to 16 degrees.

Home mead can be of several types: stavlenaya (prepared by fermentation without boiling honey) and boiled (prepared by fermentation with sterilization of honey by boiling). According to the terms of production, young and strong mead are also distinguished. Often in the mead add hops (hop mead) or spices (podelnaya mead).

A mead at home is a delicate and "delicious" thing. The use of this drink, if it is used in moderation, is unquestionable. Ways to prepare mead a lot, for example, there is a recipe for home mead.

"500 grams of honey stir in a small amount of water, and then pour boiling water and cook for an hour (the water should not be more than two glasses). Allow the beverage to cool and add a small amount of yeast, let stand for 3-4 days. Then add 3 tablespoons. Vodka, a decoction of hops (10 g) and lime blossom (15 g). The drink should be settled for 3 days. The resulting mixture is filtered, add boiled honey to it and leave to ferment for several days. Finally, the drink is poured into a barrel and placed in a cold place for 4-5 months. " The received mead will please you with a linden spirit and good mood, and for an organism it will be useful.

For cranberry mead you will need honey (1 liter), water (2.5 liters), cranberry juice (1 liter), yeast and spices. "Honey interferes with water, boil, then remove the foam. Poured into bottles with a wide neck. All this is poured separately with a prepared mixture of cranberry juice, cloves, cinnamon and yeast. Set to wander for two days. Then the bottles are closed and taken out to a cold place for a month. "

And there is a very simple recipe for traditional Scandinavian honey, 1 kg of honey and 7-8 l of water is needed for it. "Honey is poured over with water and boiled until the honey dissolves completely. Cool and add a little yeast. Give the drink for two weeks to wander, and then pour into bottles and put in a cold place for a period of at least a month. "

A mead at home is an occupation for an experienced hostess or master. Before starting its global procurement, try making a small amount for the sample. After all, recipes with the name "Mead in the home" a great variety. Let us list some of them: watermelon mead, braggata (English honey), spring honey, cranberry honey, klepkiy drunk Scandinavian honey, light honey, lime mead, monastic or old Russian honey and so on.

In ancient times honey was considered a ritual drink among the Slavs, it was shared with the gods. In the other world, according to the faith of our ancestors, rivers flow from honey and milk, so to drink honey is to join the divine. No feast or an offering has ever been without honey. Scandinavians honored honey as a gift to Odin. Finns called honey live water.

This fragrant sweet drink cheers the blood and pleases the heart. One name already caresses the rumor: the mead. At home, it is much better to cook than to buy at the store. It has long been known that, as you cook for yourself, you do not cook anyone else. Try to prepare a fragrant mead yourself - you will not regret it.