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The mention of the word mead brings to mind images of fierce Nordic warriors at a feast hall consuming mutton.  In reality, mead is an ancient beverage, but a good quality mead is more like a fine white wine - a refined beverage.  The mixture of water, honey, and yeast, mead is a beverage that takes patience to brew.  The full fermentation cycle of a mead usually runs at about a year.  Bottling a mead sooner will usually endanger the bottle with explosion unless it is pasteurized.  On top of that, proper aging brings out even more of the subtle characteristics of the mead, making mead a prime candidate for collecting and aging.

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The history and folklore surrounding beer, wine, and mead in myth is extensive.  For as long as history has been recorded, all around the world, we can see examples of these beverages being enjoyed and even fought over.  In the Bible, alcoholic drink is mentioned often.  Going further back, mead is mentioned in the ancient hymns of the Rigveda of India, poets of the Middle ages, and plays an important role in the Nordic mythology of the Eddas.  Wine goes very far back, of course, mentioned often by the philosophers of the ancient Greeks.  It could be said that, as far as we know, the arts of fermentation were among the first technologies developed by humans. 

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