Oh mead, how we’ve missed you
A friend was kind enough to point me to a somewhat recent Slate piece about the resurgence of mead in American beer culture. The best part is that they credit geeks and nerds for bringing it back.
Without the nerdy obsessiveness of early hobbyists, we’d all still be crushing corn-fed lagers against our foreheads. Instead, we’re drinking double IPAs and imperial stouts. The many new mead-makers in America are almost all lapsed home brewers who smelled the honey.
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[T]he recent interest in fermented honey has morphed it from an esoteric item that only a few bearded Dungeons & Dragons players indulged in to a small yet legitimate commercial enterprise.
Overall the article is a pleasant read, but I don’t think I enjoyed a single word of it more than I did the viking clipart gracing the margin.
If that happy character doesn’t make you want to start a home brewery, there’s something wrong with you.
For the time being, though, I guess I’ll stick with my weissbier.
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