Mead, Melomel & Metheglin

A short annotated bibliography of books and other materials useful for historical brewing. Some of these materials range up into the 1800s.

Mead in the SCA: How to Get Started. Includes general instructions and a few recipes.

What follows is a step by step explanation from Duke Gyrth Oldcastle of Ravenspur on exactly how he makes mead.

On alcoholic beverages in the Middle Ages.

Here is a recipe for a metheglin taken from The Closet of sir Kenelme Digby, Knight, Opened: A Receipt to Make Metheglin As It ls Made At Liege as Communicat ed By Mr. Masillon.

Includes recipes and a history of mead.

Guides both neophyte and more experience d brewers through the Mead-Makin g process.

An ongoing site with articles and links on Brewing as it applies to the Middle Ages and the SCA.

Documentation by Tofi Kerthjalfadsson, Debatable Brewers' guildmaster; Mead (recipe and entry) by Tofi, Ellisif Flakkari, Leif Hjalmsson, and Barak Ben David (called "Red").

A modern adaptation of a recipe which should prove satisfacto ry insofar as the herbs are infused in the finished mead.

From Tofi's Recipes.

Digby.

Recipes from The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt Opened: Whereby is Discovered Several ways for making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &c. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery: As also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c. First edition, London, 1669.

Making mead. Honey based alcoholic beverage. Period and modern recipes.

A nearly complete online edition.

The full text published on Project Gutenberg.

This page is dedicated to that most ancient of fermented beverages, mead, with informatio n on wine, beer and cider as well.

Bound together in this volume are the Tractatus de Magnetate et Operationi bus eius (the 13th century letter on the magnet by Petrus Peregrinus ); a university handbook on the theory of numbers, proportion s and harmony; the seven signs of bad breeding; the seven signs of elegance; and household and medical recipes. Included is one of the oldest known surviving English mead recipes. The recipes from this manuscript have been transcribe d and can be viewed at this site.