Gotmead needs foreign language speakers to find mead

Hi folks,

In the never-ending quest to list every meadery in the world, I find myself stumped. I speak English, some Spanish, a little French, and thats pretty much it, except for swearing in Hvartski (Croatian - learned it from Oskaar).

So, I'd like to ask for volunteers who speak languages other than English, either as a native or not, to help me find meaderies worldwide.

I need the following information:

Company Name
Contact Name
Address
Province/County/State
City
Zip or Zip equivalent
Phone
Email
Web page (if they have one)

It would also be nice to have a list of their meads. Look here to see how the ones we have are laid out.

OK, here are words for mead in other languages that I know (if you know others, or find I need correcting, please let me know):

* aguamiel - Spanish mead
* balche - Mayan mind altering mead made with balche bark
* chouchen - Breton (France) mead
* hidromel - Portugese mead
* hydromel - French mead
* idromele - Italian mead
* med - Bulgarian and Ukranian
* meddeglyn or myddyglyn - Welsh spiced mead
* mede - Dutch mead
* medovina - Czech and Slovak mead
* medovukha - Russian mead
* medu - Old High German/Old Saxon/varient of Old English, Mercian and Northumbrian
* medus - Lithuanian and/or Latvian honey
* meis - Eritrean mead
* meodu - Old English, West Saxon
* met - German mead
* midus - Lithuanian mead
* miòd - Polish mead
* mjød - Danish and Norwegian mead
* mjöd - Swedish mead
* mõdu - Estonian honey beer
* nabidh - Arabic mead
* sima - Finnish mead
* t'ej - Ethiopian mead (since about 400 B.C.)
* ydromeli - Greek mead

Here are some other names for mead that I've found in my researches:

* madhu - in the Sanscrit Vedas
* nectar or ambrosia - in the Greek and Roman mythologies
* alu - Prussian for mead
* methe - Ancient Greek for mead
* mede - Frisian, and Low German
* metu or mitu - Old HIgh German
* meth - German
* melikatos - old Greek (morphed into hydromeli in present)

Thanks, and I'll hope to get folks who can help me scour the world outside the US for mead!!! Don't forget stores that have mead, and brewing supply shops outside the US.

Vicky - on a mission from the Mead Gods (with respect to the Blues Brothers)

Thanks Dahole!!! I haven't the first idea what 'mead' is in Thai, so if you find out, let me know so I can add it to the list!

Oh, and I should add, if you're interested in hunting down non-US meaderies and sources of mead, this can (and likely *will*) be done mostly on the internet.

So, if your Google-Fu is strong, and the Force is with you, limber up your favorite non-English language, and find us some meaderies!!

Vicky - a black belt in Google-Fu

Unless these tourist boards speak English, I'm outta luck, LOL. Do they?

Vicky - woefully undereducated in foreign languages (but my daughter speaks Latin, LOL)

Hi Wayne!

Thanks, yes that would be very helpful. I've seen several smaller meaderies in Poland (I think I have some of them bookmarked), so I know they're out there.

I have used the power of Gotmead to finangle bottles here and there, but the trouble with the foreign meads is that there are so many laws governing obtaining them, even though I qualify as 'press' and can have them shipped to me as though I were a food critic.

Problem is, the U.S. has such idiotic laws about shipping into the U.S., especially if they don't have a distributor. I've gotten around some of that by buying a bottle of everything I find when I'm overseas (I brought back 3 cases from Great Britain), but shipping is pretty much restricted.

Vicky - who would have a *case* of Brammle liqueur if I could figure out how to get it to the States from Great Britain......