Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day, so here's an excerpt from Chapter 10 about mead's history in the Irish and Celtic world.

At its peak, Celtic civilization spanned almost all of modern Europe excepting the Italian and Greek peninsulas. Celts occupied the Iberian Peninsula (...

Braggots are beers sweetened with honey. Generally, a braggot is a beer with a significant and noticeable portion of the fermentable sugars coming from honey instead of from malted grain; nearly all are hopped. Just as with the very broad genre of craft beers, braggots...

RECIPE: Honey-Lemon Honeycomb Cupcakes

Note: What makes this recipe special for mead pairing is the cupcake pan made by NordicWare. This recipe comes with the pan.

Equipment: NordicWare honeycomb cupcake pan

Time 1 hour 20 min

Hands-on 20 min

Difficulty ●○○○

Yields 19 cupcak...

RECIPE: Pan-Seared Scallops

This recipe is Paleo, Gluten-Free

Note: Pan-seared scallops are easier to make than they look: you can make show-stopper scallops with a pan sauce in less than 15 minutes. Add bread, salad, and a bottle of chilled sparkling mead for a complete...

From The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing, page 316

EQUIPMENT: a medium cookie scoop will make easy work of forming the meatballs. A food processor is recommended, but you can also make this by stirring with a sturdy wooden spoon, or kneading by hand.

TIME: 60 min

HAN...

This recipe appears in The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing, page 356

INGREDIENTS:

3 parts sweet traditional mead (I favor  “Purgatory” meadowfoam honey sweet  mead from Wessels Meadery, Forest  Grove, Oregon, for this cocktail, but  any dessert-sweet mead will  work...

This sidebar appears on pages 195-196, The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing

The Kafa forest in Ethiopia is the origin of coffee. It is now an internationally-recognized biosphere reserve to conserve wild coffee genes. It is a particularly lush area of Ethiopia, but...

AFRICAN HISTORY OF MEAD

An excerpt from Chapter 10, The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing

Mead has been made and drunk in Africa for a very long time, possibly as long as 20,000 to 40,000 years. Ancient hunter-gatherer tribes probably made mostly quick meads or short...

RECIPE AND PAIRING:  RED PEPPER BISQUE
From The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing, page 154

recipe from Colleen Bos of Bos Meadery, Madison, Wisconsin

Gluten free and super easy.

INGREDIENTS: 
4 large red bell peppers 
2 Tbsp olive oil 
3 Tbsp butter 
1 medium yellow o...

 Mazer Cup is the premier mead event of the year, held annually in March at the Omni Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado. Two days of homebrew and commercial mead competition, with the fantastic Mead Mixer dinner and cocktail event on Friday evening.

The Art of Mead Tasting...