The subject line says it all. I’m on a diet and am going to a Rennaissance Fair this weekend. Mead is the best part of it, and I need to plan ahead.
Does anybody know the nutritional information for mead?
Well, mead is essentially a wine made from fermented honey. So, if you know the calories for wine, you should be pretty close to the calories for mead.
Certainly close enough for Faire.
Does it matter that honey has more calories than grapes?
Not really as those calories come from the sugars in the honey. 3 kg of honey for a 20l batch of mead vs. ??? kgs of grapes for 20 l of wine. (Now I’ve heard 600-800 grapes/750 ml bottle which gives 120-90 thousand grapes per 20l batch but 120,000 grapes!)
It’s the alcohol that will provide the majority of the calories, so take your alcohol content and serving size and work out how many oz of alcohol you have. I think it’s about 200 Cal/oz so a 6 oz serving of 10% mead gives you ~120Cal.
Opps. Might be higher if there are residual sugars following the fermentation.
Thanks! If I budget my calories right, I can have a grand old time at the Faire!
I admit Im young, just about a month away from my 21st. but wow they still make mead? I mean I know it was Beowulfs drink of choice, but never thought I would get to try it… is there any mass produced product that is close to Mead. (And before you wonder, Ive only had 6 drinks in my entire life… I’m rare I know, but then again, I joined this board so my Intelligence has to be high. 
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Mmmmmmmm, mead! I love mead, the taste is great. Even though I gotta admit that I thought it was a bit… girly-tasting for such a manly-man Anglo-Saxon mighty warriors drink. Ah well, it just makes me giggle a bit when I read my copy of Beowulf. 
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Meeko, wouln’t make mead your first foray into alcohol. Still mead like Beowulf chugged is an acquired taste.
Now Sparkling Raspberry Melomel… whoo baby. That stuff is good.
And I had my first brackett this summer at a lovely beer festival in Wisconsin, and I liked that even better than melomel.
(Melomel - mead with fruit. Brackett - mead made with malted Barley)
And yes, it is still made, usually from small craft brewers. Here’s a reference: http://www.aboutmead.com/about/mead_types.html
Can’t have fermented honey continue to be confined to just Renn Faires!