Peaches abounded; and a drink called metheglin, made of their juice mixed with whiskey and sweetened water, the thirsty traveller thought a rival to mint julep. ❋ William Henry Venable (1878)
England, and a delicate sort of drink in Wales, called metheglin; but there was a kind of "swish-swash" made in Essex from honey-combs and water, called mead, which differed from the metheglin as chalk from cheese. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
A spiced variety called metheglin is another strain, and there's the national drink of Ethiopia - Tej - a honey wine fermented with gesho, a tree root found there. ❋ By CHARLOTTE DRUCKMAN (2011)
After the success I had with the prickly pear mead and the holiday spice metheglin from a few years back, I really thought I had it down with this meadmaking stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I also popped open a bottle of my very-limited edition mint mead metheglin, which I bottled and put back in '07. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When a meal consists of paratthas or nan and meat then mead (honey wine) or metheglin ale (a kind of wine-beer hybrid made from a mix of honey and hops) go really well as does perry (pear wine). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Worlidge, in his “Vinetum Britannicum,” 1676, gives us receipts for metheglin and birch wine. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He gives a receipt — the earliest I have seen in print — for making metheglin or hydromel. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This informant describes metheglin as composed of wheat and honey (of course mixed with water), and the beer as being of sufficient strength to injure the nerves and cause head-ache. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And at this day barbarous people who want wine drink metheglin, allaying the sweetness of the honey by bitter roots, much of the taste of our wine. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It tasted some like metheglin, though without the taste of honey, and it clung to the cup with such determination that Inman found himself licking it out. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)
He rose and went to the sideboard to replenish his glass (not, I noticed, from the small stoneware jug that held the metheglin) and returned with a glass in his other hand as well, which he placed on the table next to my chair before moving over to stand in front of the fire. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1998)
French and Madeira wines graced the tables of the gentry; at taverns, the usual fare was beer, cider, black-strap, and metheglin made from fermented honey and rum. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1997)
