SC - Mead-Advise and Warning-OT-OOP

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/7/98 1:58:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
atargatis at hotmail.com writes:

> My other question is who would drink this back then.  Was it a peasant 
>  drink?  Merchant?  Or would nobility drink this stuff?
 
EVERYBODY who could afford it drank mead. There's even small mead assumed to
have been made from comb washings. There is a lot of speculation among brewing
types that ale was invented as a cheaper substitute to mead...<g> Mead is
recognised as mankinds second oldest drink in those circles. Most of us who
make it lapse rapsodic about it. You'd think we'd give more credit to the
bees...<g>

Corwyn
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