Posted on 12/29/2010 10:09:41 AM PST by JoeProBono
PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Mead, that drink of viking saga and medieval verse, is making a comeback. But this ain't your ancestors' honey wine.
"It's not just for the Renaissance fair anymore," says Becky Starr, co-owner of Starrlight Mead, which recently opened in an old woven label mill in this little North Carolina town.
In fact, this most ancient of alcoholic libations hasn't been this hot since Beowulf slew Grendel's dam and Geoffrey Chaucer fell in with the Canterbury pilgrims at the Tabard.
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I have a bottle in the refrigerator...was just thinking that now would be a good time to sample some more from it...:]
Berserking = mead hangover?
My one mead hangover I didn’t have the energy for that. I could barely muster up the concentration to beg for death.
I’m reminded of an old Norse legend. The Visigoths were minutes away from pillaging a village when somebody had an idea. The Visigoths were invited in to drink the village’s casks of Mead. They did. The next morning the villagers entered the Visigoth camp, yelling and banging on their shields, at which point, the Visigoths begged to be killed outright so as to be put out of their Mead hangover misery. They were easily dispatched and the village was saved.
This is the part where I say y'all should look up Sonoran Scotsmen Mead. It's smooth, pure, and yummy. I used it to cure the headache I was getting from Chaucer's Mead.
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