# Mead people: bars and CO2

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mead-people-bars-and-co2/820553>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mead-people-bars-and-co2/820553 "2018-08-31T02:17:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mead-people-bars-and-co2/820553/21 "2018-09-02T07:27:25Z")

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> [@pabstist](#):
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> Mead is not beer! It’s only ingredients are honey and water. It’s actually almost a wine. So serve it like you would wine.

That’s probably braggot. Mead can simply be made with honey, water, and yeast. Other ones get fancier.

Acerglyn = maple  
Bochet = carmelize the honey first  
Cyser = honey and apple juice/apples  
Melomel = honey and fruit (almost any kind, but see below)  
Pyment = honey and grapes  
Metheglin = honey and spices  
And a bunch more, but those are the most common. I’ve only dabbled in homebrew mead, so can’t answer the OP’s question. I’ve got some bottles that I’m wondering if it’s not too early to crack. And have never been to a meadery, just a braggot specialized brewery and places that have bottled external mead. Most homebrewers make it still, or with natural bubbles.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mead-people-bars-and-co2/820553/22 "2018-09-02T08:56:42Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Bochet = carmelize the honey first

Take it to Monterey?

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mead-people-bars-and-co2/820553/23 "2018-09-02T16:05:53Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Take it to Monterey?

In a losing battle, I am somewhat fundamentalist about how caramel should have 3 syllables and not 2. So that’s embarrassing.

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