Brandymel

ciaran76

Bought a bottle of Brandymel in Portugal recently and think it is really nice. Do we have anything close to that drink here in Ireland

Basically it tastes like honey

Someone in work said there is a drink called Meath which is similar. Does anyone know if this is true ?

TIA

Ciaran

technobob

its spelt mead
its what monks use to make and drink on those lonely nights.
bunratty do a lovely mead if i remember correctly,
its the only one i know of for sale commercially anyway

The Sweeper

Brandymel is a brandy and honey liquer - the 'mel' bit refers to the honey.

Mead is basically a honey-wine, straightforward mead is made with honey, water, and yeast. I'd be interested to see some of the avid home-brewers on this site try it actually, see what they come up with... there are of course tonnes of other things you can add to flavour your mead.

For the beer drinkers out there, try Fuller's Organic Honeydew, or try Waggledance.

Both honey beers. Both gooooood.

pickarooney

Barbar, if you can get it, is another tasty beer from the honey clan.

kenmc

it is nectar in a bottle. especially the Bock variant. THE nicest beer I ever got me hands on in Holland. Used drink it especially in De Baron. Couple of glasses of them and a plate of olives...MMMMmmmm.... all set.

pickarooney

It might even have been you who introduced me to it, it was definitely in De Baron that my lips first kissed the honeyed brown nectar.

kenmc

it may indeed.....