New to mead

[motoroil]

I've been brewing beer for awhile and a friend introduced me to mead. I love it now! I'm just wondering if there are meads that use grains like beer does?

 

[Insomniac]

Yup, do a search for Braggot, should be a number of threads on them around here somewhere.

 

[Golddiggie]

But a Braggot is NOT a mead, it's a hybrid... By definition a mead doesn't have grain (or malt sugars) in it. The fermenting sugars should come from honey. If you use fruit, it's a melomel. If you add other things, it's something else (they all have different names)... Do some reading here to get a better idea...

Mead - made with honey, water and yeast
Sack Mead - a sweeter Mead, with more honey
Melomel - with fruit or fruit juice
Metheglin - with spices and extracts
Acerglyn - with maple syrup
Morat - with mulberries
Pyment - with both honey and grapes
Hippocras – with honey, grapes, and spices
Cyser - honey and apples or apple cider (apple juice in Europe) Can also be made with peach, cherry or pear cider
Braggot - honey and malt, sort of a Mead-beer
Oxymel - Mead mixed with wine vinegar
Rhodomel - honey with Attar, a rose petal distillate, or rose petals
Capsicumel - honey with chile peppers
Omphacomel - Mead and Verjuice, the juice of unripe grapes
T'ej –with honey, water and hops. It is the national drink of Ethiopia, and has a unique taste

 

[fatbloke]

Concur with Golddiggie. Some braggots are made like a mead, flavoured with malt etc, some are brewed like a honey beer.....