Category Archives: Thursday Fun Fact

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Disclaimer: All Thursday Fun Facts are culled from millennia of texts as well as random statements around the internet and they are also made up. They are only facts in the loosest sense of the word (or possibly not at all). Please note the dearth of citations.

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Myth: Before the reworking of the SAT in 2005, there was an analogy question which read: Caterpillars are to Butterflies as Honey is to ___________. The correct answer was “Mead.”Fact: Nope, actually just made that up right now. But, it would have been awesome, right? Disclaimer: All ThursdayContinue reading “Thursday Fun Fact 3-21”

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Myth: Mead has to be aged approximately forever before it’s any good. Fact: Some meads do take years, others can be ready in only a few weeks. Aging requirements are primarily a function of initial sugar content and final alcohol content. Disclaimer: All Thursday Fun Facts are culledContinue reading “Thursday Fun Fact 3-14”

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Fact: Vikings did not invent mead. Mead has been around for a very, very, very long time (probably about 7,000 years at that point). The Vikings just really, really, really liked it. Disclaimer: All Thursday Fun Facts are culled from millennia of texts as well as random statementsContinue reading “Thursday Fun Fact”

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Myth: Bees go to heaven to get honey, then they bring it back and put it in hives for the exclusive purpose of providing it to us so that we can make mead out of it. Fact: Yes, according to Ken Schramm, author of The Compleat Meadmaker, thisContinue reading “Thursday Fun Fact!”

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Myth: Mead will help cure allergies.Fact: Maybe, but not as well as unfermented honey which doesn’t work as well as fexofenadine which doesn’t work as well as allergy shots. They all work equally well if your allergies are all in your head, though. As does tea, coffee, beer, magic beans, wheat grass juice, multi-vitamins,Continue reading “Thursday Fun Fact!”

Time for your weekly Thursday Fun Fact! Myth: The clarity, cloudiness, foaminess, packaging, viscosity, glassware, legs, color, or some other cockamamie visual cue tells me how good a mead is.Fact: Why would looking at a drink tell you how good it is? Drinks are – despite popular misconception – a thing for your nose and tongue toContinue reading “Thursday Fun Fact!”