Serve neat or try it over ice with a splash of cloudy lemonade and a shot of vodka for a "Bitter Viking" cocktail. I have brewed mead for many years and if you have never tried mead I heartly recommend you try this one, then try others and you will see the truth of the matter!

Humourless fans of the HBO ratings smasher quickly pointed out that mead has neither been mentioned nor drunk in the programme, but journalists didn’t allow this minor detail to get in the way of a good story. This delicious English tipple blends the finest ingredients to provide a rich golden honey colour and delicately sweet, aromatic and mouth watering flavours of acacia blossom. We’ve had Game of Thrones theme nights requesting mead,’ says Sophia Fenton of The Cornish Mead Company, which has seen an uplift in sales since the series began. The original mead was simply fermented honey diluted with water, making it the world’s most ancient known alcoholic drink. He uses lager yeast to produce ‘a crisp, refreshing finish to balance the sweetness of the honey’, though surely missed a trick by failing to name his eponymous meadery Virgin Meadia.Disclaimer We've put this info together to help you get a feel for the product and have tried to make sure everything's correct. The earliest authentic mead styles include cyser mead (made with honey and fermented apple juice), sack mead (with high honey, high alcohol content) and who could forget metheglin (flavoured with herbs and spices)? They attributed this growth to the improving quality of mead and some even linked it with the phenomenal success of Game of Thrones.

Nowadays it ranges from around 5% to 20% alcohol, can be still or sparkling, as dry as proper sherry or as sweet as a pixie princess trilling ‘Hey nonny no’ on a marshmallow mushroom. Tom Gosnell quit Virgin Media to brew a distinctively light, sparkling modern mead in Peckham, southeast London. This delicous English tipple blends the finest ingredients to provide a delicately sweet mouthwatering flavour and rich golden honey colour. You should also note that the picture images show only our serving suggestions of how to prepare your food - all table accessories and additional items and/or ingredients pictured with the product you are purchasing are not included.While we have taken care in preparing this summary and believe it to be accurate, it is not a substitute for reading the product packaging and label prior to use. And sure enough, long after Henry VIII began to do away with the monasteries – and their beekeeping, mead-making monks – the honey-based hooch of yesteryear is back. Delicious, and fabulously drinkable, a bottle of this at a party is highly unlikely to hang around for 10 minutes, never mind 10,000 years. The word derives from the ancient practice of giving one lunar month’s supply of mead, thought to be an aphrodisiac, to newlyweds.