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Blueberry Lemon Hydromel

This recipe is from Danny Stahl, a member of the Maltose Falcons. The resulting mead is approachable and dangerously drinkable.

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Peach Melomel

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Gordon Strong’s Braggot

A braggot with an English barleywine base beer with about half the fermentables coming from wildflower honey.

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Braggot is a unique beverage that is part mead and part beer. Different from honey beer as a larger percent of its fermentables come from ho

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The Queen’s Mead

Bitten by the meadmaking bug during the pandemic, Paul Crowther set out to make a historic mead. Not just any mead steeped in history, but o