https://youtu.be/olG1etbI54Y
The first installment of my mead making videos is online now. Mead is my favorite kind of wine. It's not easy to find in liquor stores, especially if you want it made with a particular fruit or at certain alcohol level, so you're largely left to make it yourself if you want something really fantastic to pass around during the holidays. My 2014 vintage of Raspberry Northman is opening later tonight for Christmas.
If you're of Nordic ancestry, as I am (Uppland, Sweden), then making your own mead can be a fun experience simply for historical reasons. Watching the movie The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Benderas, will also get you in the mood. It's what initially got me interested. It's a movie about an exiled Arab scholar who chronicles his journey with a group of twelve viking warriors on a mission across the sea to do battle with an ancient evil. They drink plenty of mead when they're not slaying agents of darkness.