I ran across this interesting quiz to help you determine which kinds of wines you may like based on other preferences (like you really need something to tell you what you like, right?). However, it may be useful for newer wine drinkers to help them identify styles they might enjoy more as they start exploring wines.
So I'm thinking that maybe new mead drinkers/makers need some similar guidance to help them taste meads that they will like early on. This way they won't get turned off by having tasted only one mead - like Chaucer's or Bunratty's. They put the wines in 4 categories - sweet, hyper-sensitive, sensitive, and tolerant. Within that framework, can we identify commercial meads, and mead recipes that would fit each of these categories? Then, when a newbee asks for some advice, we can point them to something that might suit them better.
This may not be easy, but I know that GotMead folks are quite up for a challenge, so I ask you to make some good recommendations. Maybe some variation of this can be incorporated into the next revision of the newbee's guide.
What do you think?
Medsen
So I'm thinking that maybe new mead drinkers/makers need some similar guidance to help them taste meads that they will like early on. This way they won't get turned off by having tasted only one mead - like Chaucer's or Bunratty's. They put the wines in 4 categories - sweet, hyper-sensitive, sensitive, and tolerant. Within that framework, can we identify commercial meads, and mead recipes that would fit each of these categories? Then, when a newbee asks for some advice, we can point them to something that might suit them better.
This may not be easy, but I know that GotMead folks are quite up for a challenge, so I ask you to make some good recommendations. Maybe some variation of this can be incorporated into the next revision of the newbee's guide.
What do you think?
Medsen