Turns out mead, called honey wine as well, is a drink concocted from honey and water. The two are mixed and allowed to ferment. The concoction can be flavored with various fruits to give it a slightly different taste. So you might have apple mead, or grape mead etc. Hops can also be tossed in in order to make a beer-like taste to the mead. Mead is generally clear, with a slight tint to it if flavored. I would assume mead is the cheaper of the drinks and is available at most boards, whether in the morning or evening.
Beer comes from cereal, barley or wheat that is mashed with hot water; this process allows the sugars to break down which creating what is called sweet wort; the wort is separated from the grains, boiled often with hops thrown in for flavor and then the whole mess allowed to ferment. (I suspect I've left something out here). Beer is the younger of the two liquids and by far the most complicated to make. I suspect it would cost a little more than mead.
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Remember the movie The Thirteenth Warrior?
Barderas's muslim scholar is dragged along on an adventure with a bunch of vikings and is always declining a drink of mead. Finally, at the end, his viking buddy wants to know what the deal is. He tells him 'I can taste neither the fermentation of grape, nor of wheat.' The guy laughs at him at tells him 'HONEY! It's made from honey!'
I had forgotten all about that! haha That's a great scene!
I need to get some mead. And a drinking horn.
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