All About Mead (and Tugwell Creek Mead)
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Do you know mead? It's definitely not just your Grandma's dessert wine. Mead has a storied history spanning over 9000 years. Get to know mead; where it came from; what to look for in a mead; and it's many names & varieties here and around the world. Learn a bit about how to pair mead, how to serve mead, a little about Tugwell Creek mead, and most important... Where to buy Tugwell Creek Mead. www.tugwellcreekfarm.com
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All About Mead (and Tugwell Creek Mead)
- 1. Western Canada’s First Meadery Tugwell Creek Honey Farm & Meadery
- 2. Introducing… Bob Liptrot -Meadmaker -keeping bees since age 7 -Masters degree in Entomology -making mead for over 30 years
- 4. HISTORY OF MEAD The "Man of Bicorp" holding onto lianas to gather honey from a beehive as depicted on an 8000- year-old cave painting near Valencia, Spain •oldest fermented beverage - Neolithic period • festivals and religious drink • Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Scandinavians, Assyrian, Inc as, Aztec • aphrodisiac • life, wisdom, courage and strength • origins of the word Honeymoon • popular until the 18th century
- 5. The Origin of Recipes •As early as the 1700’s •why we have chosen particular recipes.
- 6. A 9,000 year history of mead *fermented beverages confirmed from residue on pottery shards *research conducted by archeochemist Dr. Patrick McGovern, Penn State U. *Neolithic village site of Jiahn, Henan province, N. China *Compounds identified by G & L chromatography-mass spectometry, infrared spectometry & stable isotope analysis *main compounds included rice, honey and hawthorn fruit Prehistoric meads at Jiahu paved the way for proto-historic second millennium cereal based alcohols of Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties 1250-1000 BC *liquid samples found in 3000 year old bronze jars *rice and millet wines
- 7. A 9,000 year history of mead Proto-historic alcohols in china were known as Jui and Chang *produced by mold saccharification (breakdown of carbohydrates in grain to simple fermentable sugars) *yeast then enters the process adventitiously starting fermentation Parallel prehistorical and proto-historical mead evolution *resinated mead wine inside two jars excavated at Hajji Firuz, Iran 5400 BC *earliest confirmed barley beer excavated at Godin Tepe, Iran 3500-3100 BC Recent historical evidence of mead *Egyptian examples of honey and or mead *5th dynasty Ne-Woser-Re at Abusis *18th dynasty vizier Rekhmire at Thebes
- 8. A 9,000 year history of mead *the Hochdorf tomb from around 540-520 BC Celtic/Greek -brass cauldron 104cm dia. X 80cm h. 500 l. vol. -nine drinking horns 5.5 l. vol. each Old English references *tales of King Arthur 5th-6th century *old English epic poem Beowulf 8th century *Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” 14th century
- 9. Mead in brief decline *approx. 1500-1600 AD with the introduction of sugar cane from India and the new world The recent history of mead *enjoying a comeback as an offshoot of the wine and ale industries *aprox.200 plus meaderies in N. America *receiving publicity from movies books etc.
- 10. QUALITIES TO LOOK FOR -Mead . . . ranges from very dry to very sweet -Some products are ale like -Some are fortified -Others like white or red wines -Fruit, herbs, vegetables or spices can be added -If it is fermented with honey, it is mead -higher fruit and honey content-intensify flavour
- 11. The Origin of Mead Names Names relate to the ingredients Hydromel - means water honey in Greek -French name for mead Melomel - Honey wine using fruit -depending on fruit base, more specific names Metheglin –originated from folk medicine -derived from Welsh (meddyglyn) - (meddyg) healing + (llyn) liquor
- 12. The Origin of Mead Names Great Mead - aged several years Short Mead - meant to age quickly Sac Mead –derived name from fortified sherry -bore nickname “Sack” in England -derived from Welsh (meddyglyn) - (meddyg) healing + (llyn) liquor Braggot- -Welsh origin (bragawd)
- 13. VARIETIES OF MEAD Sac Mead - 20-25% more honey and water (Sauterne-like) Melomel - Honey wine using fruit excluding apples or grapes Metheglin - Honey wine made with any herbs, spices
- 14. VARIETIES OF MEAD Cyser - Honey wine made with apple cider or fresh apple juice Hydromel - Light honey wine 10% alcohol or less - May include any ingredients from other categories
- 15. VARIETIES OF MEAD Hippocras - Honey wine made with grape juice and spices Traditional Mead - Honey and water fermented together Bracket or Braggot - Honey wine made with malts and grains
- 16. VARIETIES OF MEAD Pyment - Honey wine made with grapes/grape juice Morat - Honey, water, and mulberries Tej -Honey wine made with Gesho -spontaneous fermentation
- 17. OTHER MEAD VARIANTS Acerglyn- maple syrup and honey Bochet- made with caramelized honey Braggot- honey, hops and or malts of grain Black mead- blackcurrants and honey Capsicumel- addition of chili peppers to mead Cyser- apple juice and honey Hydromel- light low alcohol mead Melomel- fruit juice added to honey
- 18. Metheglin- herbs and or spices added to mead Morat- mulberries blended with honey Omphacomel- honey blended with verjuice Oxymel- wine vinegar and honey Pyment- honey with red or white grape juice Rhodomel- rose hips, petals or rose attar and honey
- 19. ETHNIC VARIANTS Balche- Native Mexican mead Czworniak- Light Polish style mead Chouchenn- Traditional mead from Brittany Dandaghare-A mead of Nepal Medovina- Eastern European variants of traditional regional meads Medovukha- Eastern Slavic variants of local meads Myod - Traditional Russian meads available in three major varieties
- 20. ETHNIC VARIANTS Midus- Lithuanian term for mead infused with herbs and fruit, sometimes distilled Pitarrilla- Ancient Mayan mead using wild honey and balche tree bark Poltorak- Aged or great style Polish mead Sima- Low alcohol lemon flavoued Finnish mead Tej- Ethiopian meads fermented with wild yeasts, gesho root and or grains Trojniak- Classic Polish mead
- 21. OUR PHILOSOPHY -Our meads -primarily from our own honey and berries or from Southern Vancouver Island -not certified organic -bees forage on wild plants of S. Vancouver Island -all fruit is unsprayed - sulphites- far less than in grape wines
- 22. What does Vertically Integrated Mean? •Keeping your own bees Fill up boxes naturally •Source of honey •Mountains, clean •Blossoms, Fireweed, Blackberry •Non-agricultural •Non-genetically modified •25K radius •Handling raw product •Preference of style •Amount of honey used •Strong sense of aromatics, complexities
- 23. HOW TO SERVE MEAD Temperature- -serve at cellar temperature Storage- -once opened, will keep for up to 2 weeks -fruit based meads –treated like high quality grape wine Cellaring- -straight honey meads will cellar up to 20 years -some fruit meads become more sherry like -sweeter meads more Sauterne like
- 24. Pairing – -fruit meads pair well with spicy foods -like a dry sherry, with a cheese course -pastas and light meats -sweet meads are good with dessert
- 25. Where To Find Tugwell Creek Meads? GREATER VICTORIA: SOOKE: TOFINO: Beacon Landing Liquor Store Buffy’s Liquor Store Clayoquot Wilderness Resort Cascadia Beer and Wine - Quadra Street Castle Beer and Wine Long Beach Lodge Cascadia Beer and Wine - Hatley Park Markus’s Wharfside Maquinna Liquor Store The Cask & Keg Liquor Store Seventeen Mile Liquor Store SALTSPRING ISLAND: Fairmont Empress Hotel Sooke Harbour House Fulford Inn Beer and Wine Store, Fulford Four Mile Liquor Store Stone Pipe Grill Harbour House Beer & Wine, Ganges Hillside Liquor Store MALAHAT / COWICHAN VALLEY: The Local Liquor Store, Ganges Hotel Grand Pacific Beverly Corners Liquor Store Upper Ganges Liquor Store, Ganges Road Laurel Point Hotel Bistro La Pommeraie VANCOUVER: Liquor Depot Malahat Mountain Inn Liberty Wine Merchants – Granville Island Liquor Express - Tillicum Mall, Keating The Honeypot Liquor Store Liberty Wine Merchants – Point Grey Liquor Plus - Douglas Best Western Cowichan Valley Inn Liberty Wine Merchants – Park & Tillford Liquor Plus - Saanich Centre NANAIMO / NORTHEAST ISLAND: Raincity Grill Liquor Plus - Royal Oak Coast Discovery Inn, Campbell River Salt Tasting Room Liquor Plus - Cobble Hill & Duncan Crossroads Liquor Depot, Nanaimo Burgoo Restaurants Loghouse Pub Beer and Wine Store Ladysmith Liquor Depot Regional Tasting Lounge The Marina Restaurant Landlubber Pub Liquor Store, Nanaimo The Penny Farthing The Village Liquor Store, Parksville Spinnakers Beer & Wine - James Bay Wellington Liquor Store, Nanaimo Spinnakers Beer & Wine - Vic West Wheatsheaf Beer and Wine, Nanaimo Spinnakers Pub The Strath Beer and Wine Store
Notes de l'éditeur
- The audience was fascinated by your discussion on recipes, for example, 1700Tell audience why you have chosen particular recipes. …THIS IS HOW WE TRANSLATED THIS CONCEPT INTO OUR MEAD
- Concept is to teach audience the characteristics of good Mead making. While describing components you can talk about your beliefs and why you make mead the way you do and the difference in the outcomes because of your beliefs.Make a number of slides to display the above including one of the bees naturally going into the boxes
- COMPARE YOUR PAIRINGS TO WINE PAIRINGS I.E. INSTEAD OF GWERSTRAMEINER / SOLSTICE. MAY HELP SOMMELIERS JUSTIFY MEAD PURCHASE OVER WINE.