Yesterday my sons took my wife and me to a Meadery.

[NNadir]

I thought he and his brother were joking with me (a lactovegetarian) by saying they were going to a "meatery."

Wrong.

A meadery is a place where they serve mead, an alcoholic beverage made from honey. They had a "flight of meads" where you got to sample 5 meads for 10 bucks.

It was very interesting I have to say. Some very interesting tastes, exotic in a playful way.

We had a wonderful time.

[Clash City Rocker]

1. Mead can be delicious

It’s a little like a very dry champagne, depending on which one you drink.

Fun fact, it was a popular wedding beverage once upon a time, and that’s where the word “honeymoon” comes from.

I’m not familiar with the term “lactovegetarian.” I assume some strict vegans can’t drink mead? As long as wine and beer are allowed, I’m sure they can deal with it.

[NNadir]

8. A "lactovegetarian" is a person who does not eat animals but does eat animal products...

...particularly those made from milk.

One of my son's old friends from high school is a fairly strict vegan, so the question was would he drink bee products on a visit to my son, which is of course mead.

The answer for this guy was "yes."

[Clash City Rocker]

14. How interesting. I could maybe handle that

I don’t eat that much meat, and hardly any red meat, but I would struggle to live without cheese.

[Wolf Frankula]

2. Did you drink from a horn?

Mead tastes best from a horn.

Wolf

[brush]

3. I've heard of it from midieval times and always wondered what it tastes like.

I thought it was similar to beer but being made from honey, I guess not. Is it sweet?

[NNadir]

6. I tasted 5 varieties. Not all were appreciably sweet. At least one, flavored by blueberries...

...and blue in color was quite tart, but delicious.

[Clash City Rocker]

12. I think it depends on how it's made

Alcohol comes from sugar, or starch. I’ve tasted mead that was much like champagne, but most of it is less sweet than that. I think it depends on when the honey is added.

Honey, of course, is sweet, so mead can have a rather high alcohol content. I think I’ve seen it as high as 20% ABV (alcohol by volume). There had to be a reason those Vikings liked it so much.

[mbusby]

4. This one...

...will make your teeth pearly and your hair curly....

https://www.totalwine.com/wine/dessert-fortified-wine/mead/dansk-klapojster-mjod/p/189072750

[Backseat Driver]

5. Have had a bottle of Chaucer's Mead in the rack

that was supposed to be a Christmas beverage that family had not tried before, but no one ever begged me to open it and so it remains destined for some special occasion I guess. Does it have a best by: ? Going into the fall, in which we consume multiple bottles of Witches Brew (red spiced), perhaps there's no time like the present?

[Solly Mack]

7. Sounds wonderful.

[NNadir]

9. It was. How are you feeling? Recovering nicely I hope. n/t.

[Solly Mack]

10. I am. Thank you.

But now I want to go to a Meadery.

[NNadir]

11. A worthy desire, I assure you. I expect a meadery would make anyone feel better.

I hope you're well enough to go to one soon.

[Buzz cook]

13. Mead is one of the things I made

During the plague.

Its really pretty simple. Lots of how to videos on face book. On edit I meant youtube.
After a few tries I switched to cider making. Even simpler.

[leftieNanner]

15. We used to make pear wine at our old house in California and it was quite lovely

It took quite a bit of work, but it was worth it! In order for it not to be super sweet, we kept it going until all the sugar turned into alcohol. You couldn't drink more than one glass of that stuff!

We had 16 fruit trees on our property - it was built in an area that was an old pear orchard. Bartletts.

Yum.

[Buzz cook]

16. Sounds fun.

I've only used real fruit one time. The rest were juices.

Oh a said there were videos on facebook, I meant youtube.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Well, even Martha Washington made her own metheglin (spiced mead) ...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martha_Washington_s_Booke_of_Cookery_and/srKZtR13JlYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=martha+washington%27s+recipe+for+metheglin&pg=PA220&printsec=frontcover

So not too hard to come by if you can't buy it locally.