I have had homemade mead before—I’d love to drink nothing but it (if I were much of an alocholo-drinking person).
One of my classmates started brewing his own beer at an early age (perhaps after he got his house, so maybe not so early), and by the time he gave me a full rundown on his homebrewing, he’d been making mead for a while, along with the beer, and possibly other brews. I’m pretty sure that, when he and his wife built the house, they should have put a ramp into the basement, rather than stairs. No reason.