• Traditional mead is made with only honey, water, acid, nutrients and yeast. Can be still or sparkling.

• Metheglin is mead made with added herbs or spices, such as cloves or cinnamon.

• Melomel is mead made with added fruit or fruit juices. Usually less honey is used than in traditional mead.

  • Cyser is a melomel made with apples or apple juice.

  • Pyment is a melomel made with grapes or grape juice.

    • Hippocras is a spiced pyment.

• Braggot or Bracket made with most of its fermentable sugars coming from honey and 25 to 50% from malted barley.

Original resources:

Traditional Mead Recipe

Last minute Mead Recipe

BABO 98 Mead guidelines

Comparing Yeast in Meads

References from the net:

1997 BJCP Mead Style Guidelines

The Bee's Lees by Joyce Miller
Recipes from the Net

An Analysis of Mead, Mead Making and the Role of its Primary Constituents by Daniel S. McConnell and Kenneth D. Schramm Technical Director, G.W.Kent and President, The Yeast Culture Kit Company

The Mead-Lovers README file by written by John Dilley, Dick Dunn, Thomas Manteufel, and Michael Tighe.