Mead Making Terminology

These Mead terms come from Forest Scott's Mead Maker's Page and some additions from the GotMead forum's NewBee Guide to Making Mead...

Types of Mead

• Acerglyn - with maple syrup
• Braggot - honey wine and malted barley, sort of a mead-beer
• Cyser - honey wine and fruit or cider (apple)
• Capsicumel - honey wine with chili peppers
• Hippocras - honey wine, grapes, and spices
• Hydromel - Light Mead, 10% alcohol or below
• Mead - made with honey, water and yeast sometimes with flavoring ingredients Also can have fruit, herbs, or spices
• Melomel - honey wine with fruit or fruit juice
• Metheglin - honey wine with spices and/or herbs
• Morat - honey wine with mulberries
• Omphacomel - honey wine and verjuice, the juice of unripe grapes
• Oxymel - honey wine mixed with wine vinegar
• Pyment - honey wine with grapes (fruit or juice)
• Rhodomel - honey wine with attar, a rose petal distillate, rose hips, or rose petals
• Sack Mead - a heavy desert style mead
• T'ej - honey, water and gesho
• Weirdomel - weird combinations of flavors an additives

Mead Translated from Around the World

• Aguamiel - Spain
• Alu - Prussian for mead
• Ayahuasca - Amazonian mind liberating liquid
• Balche - Mayan mind altering mead
• Chouchen or Hydromel - France
• Hidromel - Portugal
• Idromele - Italy
• Madhu - in the Sanscrit Vedas
• Med - Bulgaria and Ukraine
• Meddeglyn or myddyglyn - Welsh
• Mede - Holland
• Mede - Frisian, and Low German
• Mede - Japan
• Medovina - Czech and Slovakia
• Medovukha - Russia
• Medu, Met, or Meth - Germany
• Medus or Midus - Lithuania, Latvia
• Meis - Eritrean
• Melikatos - old Greek
• Meodu - Old English
• Meth - German
• Methe - Ancient Greek for mead
• Metu or Mitu - Old High German
• Miód - Poland
• Mjød - Danish and Norwegian
• Mjöd - Sweden
• Mõdu - Estonia
• Nabidh - Arabia
• Sima - Finland
• T'ej - Ethiopia
• Ydromeli - Greece