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About Mead Making...

• Mead Made Easy, by Dave Polaschek with Tim Mitchell, comprehensive introduction to mead making, complete with several recipes
• The Basics of Mead Fermentation, by George Clayton Cone, Lallemand Ltd.
• The Mead-Lovers README File, a FAQ list about mead, by Dick Dunn, et al.
• Making Magic: Brewing Mead, by Rich Webb

Recipes for Mead

• Recipes from Digbie, transcribed by Joyce Miller (18 recipes, from 1669)
• The Bees Lees, edited by Joyce Miller (40 recipes, well-edited)
• Chapter 10 of Cats Meow, edited by Mark Stevens and Karl Lutzen (100 recipes)

Technical Discussions

• An Analysis of Mead, Mead Making and the Role of its Primary Constituents, by Daniel S. McConnell and Kenneth D. Schramm
• Mad Honey Disease, (author unknown, posted to Mead Digest by Kelly Jones), discussion of grayanotoxin, mad honey disease, or honey intoxication

Style Discussions

• Hippocras is Not Mead, by Fred Hardy
• The History and Magic of Mead, by Rich Webb
• A Treatise on Mead Judging, (Adobe Acrobat, text), by Michael Hall

Worksheets and Software

• Mead maker's log worksheet, by Michael Hall (PostScript file)
  • Source: TeX and PS for blank worksheet and usage example (compressed tar)

Online Resources

• The Mead Maker's Page
• Mead: Drink of the Gods
• Mead archives at ftp.stanford.edu

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