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YogiBearMead726

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It seems at least 50% of the time, when I tell someone that "I make mead", they hear, "I make meat." And when they then ask how that works, I watch the confusion grow as I describe yeast fermenting honey, aging for years...

Honestly, is mead that foreign that people confuse it with the word "meat"? Or do I just need to learn to speak clearly?
 
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YogiBearMead726 said:
It seems at least 50% of the time, when I tell someone that "I make mead", they hear, "I make meat." And when they then ask how that works, I watch the confusion grow as I describe yeast fermenting honey, aging for years...

Honestly, is mead that foreign that people confuse it with the word "meat"? Or do I just need to learn to speak clearly?
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Nope, it happens top us all. What kind of meat do you make? *puzzled faces.

Now I just tell people I make honeywine so I don't have to talk like a kindergarten teacher. MMEEEAAAADDDDDDDDDD with a DDDDDD sound
 
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MitchSmit

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It's going to keep happening to you. You are better off just stating you make wine, or even better, honey wine.
 
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I once made someone guess what kind of wine I was making.

I mentioned that I had a 'jug of special wine' fermenting as we spoke, and they said "grape?". "No", I answered, "guess again".

"Apricot? Elderberry, cherry, plum, apple, strawberry..." and on and on until they got to "Tomato? Dandelion? Friggin' cabbage?? WHAT? Is it even a fruit?"

"No, and its not a vegetable either".

They went insane as I smiled (chicken and egg kind of thing<grin>), until finally they looked in horror and said, "are you making it out of some kind of MEAT??"

Heh heh, Klingon Blood Wine. THAT'S what I should have told them!


Joe
 
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stagnant waters

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Well, scientists in England just produced 5 oz of lab cultured beef and had a taste testing over the weekend. You could try making meat. The only downside is that the cultured meat would cost about $30.00 per pound- making it almost as expensive as mead...
 
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Matrix4b

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I get this all the time. Once I see the confusion, I say "Honeywine. Spelled M-E-A-D." They then ask me how to make it or seem more interested. Meat and Mead are similar sounding and most of the time when I tell some one that I brew Mead there is a lot of background noise. So "Honeywine" like wine but made with honey instead of grapes. Seems to get their attention. Some ask me if it's sweet or go "I don't like very sweet drinks." I then tell them like wine it has various sweetness levels and you can brew a very dry mead that tastes great and that it's more flexible in it's varying flavors than beer or wine. Some people you can't please but there's a mead out there for everyone. No matter your tastes.

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I'm with Joe, when people/family ask about it I just say I brew wine, since in essence that's exactly what it is and saves a whole bunch of confusion unless they express further interest, then I go from there.

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Being primarily a winemaker, I don't run into this often, but when I do, to allay confusion I usually answer with something like, "Mead. you know, honey wine."
 
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joemirando said:
I once made someone guess what kind of wine I was making.

I mentioned that I had a 'jug of special wine' fermenting as we spoke, and they said "grape?". "No", I answered, "guess again".

"Apricot? Elderberry, cherry, plum, apple, strawberry..." and on and on until they got to "Tomato? Dandelion? Friggin' cabbage?? WHAT? Is it even a fruit?"

"No, and its not a vegetable either".

They went insane as I smiled (chicken and egg kind of thing<grin>), until finally they looked in horror and said, "are you making it out of some kind of MEAT??"

Heh heh, Klingon Blood Wine. THAT'S what I should have told them!


Joe
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Elderberry? Someone guessed Elderberry? Were you screening Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
 
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Even at my local pub, I told the bartender, who is from England, that I was making mead and he understood "meat". Then he didn't know what mead was. I forgave him because he's like 30. But I almost revoked his Dr. Who geek status.
 
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Matrix4b

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Chevette Girl said:
Being primarily a winemaker, I don't run into this often, but when I do, to allay confusion I usually answer with something like, "Mead. you know, honey wine."
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Reminded me of this quote:
"You must remember that these are simple, salt of the earth type of people.......You know, Morons."

Ok, I may have misquoted it a bit. But just the way you phrased that made me think of it.

Matrix
 
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Matrix4b said:
Reminded me of this quote:
"You must remember that these are simple, salt of the earth type of people.......You know, Morons."

Ok, I may have misquoted it a bit. But just the way you phrased that made me think of it.

Matrix
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Bwahaahaahaa!! You know, some days, I do have to use only small words...
 
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