Mead and Honey Wine - A Comprehensive Guide - Softcover

Michael Badger MBE

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878075527 ISBN 13: 9781878075529

Publisher: Wicwas Press, LLC, 2018

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive guide to the many aspects of meads and honey wines available for the mead vintner, written by a leading authority on the topic. The author describes every aspect of the process from the varieties of honeys, their characteristics and qualities for the production of a superior wine; the yeasts types available; to the various methods of mead production with extensive recipes. There is a problem-solving section and discussion of the criteria for judging and exhibiting meads. It is supported by an extensive glossary and index. This book is written for world-wide use with emphasis on mead makers in the United Kingdom, the USA and Canada. It is a comprehensive guide and encyclopedia for both novice and sage alike who will find the information and expertise a true adjunct for improving their techniques in mead and wine production. The information given is unique as there are few, if any, books on the subject of mead and honey wines that give such clear and concise knowledge of this enthralling topic.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael J. Badger MBE has been a mead and honey wine vintner for over fifty years. He has been a beekeeper since he was a boy, which is over sixty-five years. He has been involved with the National Honey Show (NHS)since 1972, Whilst he qualified as a Senior BBKA Honey Judge in 1984. For 43 years he was an active honey steward at the Great Yorkshire Show, being the Chief Honey Steward responsible for the annual section competition from 1986 until 2015. He was chairman of the Yorkshire Beekeepers' Association in 1983 and again in 2000; Chairmanand President of the British Beekeepers' Association 1999-2002, and he is an Honorary Member of both the British and the Yorkshire Beekeepers' Association. Michael's acknowledged contribution to beekeeping is immense; he was instrumental in the establishment of the British Beekeepers' Associations headquarters (the National Beekeeping Centre) at Stoneleigh Park in 2000, The Yorkshire Beekeepers' Associations Normandy Pavilion and the Hives and Honey Pavilion at the Great Yorkshire Showgrounds, Harrogate officially opened by HRH the Duchess of Wessex in 2014.

Review:

Michael's first hand knowledge of honey, mead and beekeeping is an invaluable foundation for the book he has written. His expertise is a doorway into exquisite taste experiences unavailable to those stumbling, unaware, through their existence. Here, then is Michael Badger's invitation to become one of the enlightened. For those who know mead, and especially well-made mead, it has become a stable, regular part of our lives. It is on our dinner table with roast pork. It is with us in the summer, in the garden, with friends and family. It is on our fishing trips and part of our holiday celebrations. Mead is not a novelty for us; it has become, like good food, beer and wine, a staple of our lives. --Ken Schramm, Schramm's Mead - In Forward of the book

About this edition

• Publisher: Wicwas Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1878075527
• ISBN 13: 9781878075529
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 379
• Editor: Lawrence John Connor
• Illustrator: Michael Badger, David Lamb RIBA, Erica Osborn, Damien Timms