cyser

For the bulk of the mead, I'd decided to try my hand at cyser, which is a mead/apple cider confection.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

The bad news is that I siphoned off a glass of the apple mead/cyser and... well, it's bland.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

In 2006, they traveled to Boulder, Colo., and entered their spiced cyser mead made with apples in the International Mead Festival's home mead-maker competition.

Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

Jon Hamilton's White Winter Winery in Iron River, Wis., did a bourbon barrel-aged cyser, but that's about as exotic as it gets.

Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

In 2006, they traveled to Boulder, Colo., and entered their spiced cyser mead made with apples in the International Mead Festival's home mead-maker competition.

Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

The bad news is that I siphoned off a glass of the apple mead/cyser and... well, it's bland.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2010

Jon Hamilton's White Winter Winery in Iron River, Wis., did a bourbon barrel-aged cyser, but that's about as exotic as it gets.

Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010

Naturally, since all types of alcohol can be described as "bitter", your concern about whether it's ale, cyser, beer, wine, mead, or even a refreshing singapore sling on a hot summer day is hardly relevant to the significance of the Rhaetic word alu.

Never judge a book by its nom de plume 2008

Gayre, and others, present the idea that what was once ale is more akin to a cyser (juice based) or weak mead (honey based).

Never judge a book by its nom de plume 2008

Brown ale and mead and cyser and blackberry brandy fountained up from hollow stalagmites right into the waiting mugs of those merrymakers who were still on their feet.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981