B. United International Inc. - Christmas Mead

Highly acclaimed by Michael Jackson:
"Golden elixier sent from the Gods..."

Charlie Papazian:
"...a bottle from Lurgashall, near Petworth, W. Sussex, United Kingdom, was the best I had ever tasted..."

Over the centuries this delicious drink made from fermented honey has been produced in many forms - unadulterated as the ale of the poor, or spiced and fortified as the celebration liquor of Kings.

Mead made from fermented honey is probably the oldest alcoholic beverage in the world, older than wine made from the grape and known to the Ancients as the "Drink of the Gods". For over 1000 years mead can be traced from the times of Beowulf (about 700 AD) and the court of King Arthur to that of Elizabeth I and Charles II who had Royal Mead Makers whose positions may have been higher than the Royal Physicians. It was the wine of the Druids and Celts and the Welsh and mentioned in Pepy's, Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Samuel Pepys described Metheglin ( a strong fortified Mead) as "strong in the superlative, if taken immoderately, doth stupefy more than any other liquor and keeps a humming in the brain". He also wrote "the naturallest drink of the Country, being made of the decoction of water and honey".

The name "Honeymoon" derives from the tradition of the newly married couple drinking a glass of mead every day for one lunar month, to make their marriages happy and fruitful.