Just What I Mead
By next year, us lucky Albertans will be able to hoist mugs of mead, a drink the Beowulf poet probably sipped on as he composed his epic (and perhaps the reason he forgot to sign his name).
Alberta beekeepers can now make mead, a honey wine that is the oldest known alcoholic drink. The wine was approved last week for production and sale in Alberta after a year of lobbying by the province’s honey industry. The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Board is allowing farmers to get a cottage winery licence to produce and sell mead.
What’s taken so long?
Read the history of mead here.
Mmmmmm… mead.