The most ancient and popular drinks in Russia are hydromel or mead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

He gives a receipt — the earliest I have seen in print — for making metheglin or hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference

One must determine by such marks as these, when sweet, strong, and dark wine, hydromel, water and oxymel, should be given in acute diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

"The potion of hydromel with hyssop and crushed caper root," said Apollodorus of Sicily, still reigning supreme on the best side of the Palatine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

Likewise, the old Teutons prepared a Honey wine, (hydromel), and made it the practice to drink this for the first thirty days after marriage; from which custom has been derived the familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

And boiled hydromel has a much more elegant appearance than the unboiled, being clear, thin, white, and transparent, but I am unable to mention any good quality which it possesses that the other wants.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

For hydromel, if drunk alone, is much stronger than water, if it do not disorder the bowels; but in some respects it is stronger, and in some weaker, than wine that is thin, weak, and devoid of bouquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

It was laid with a numerous variety of dishes, hydromel and costly wines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen] Reference

Causam huius assignat Cardanus, quod hydromel vetustate transeat in vinum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01] Reference

The Drevlians, full of joy at this message, gathered honey in quantities and brewed it into hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

Take in each hand a morsel of barley-bread, soaked in hydromel; and in thy mouth two pieces of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference

Goth were peering down at Rome; already they had whispered together, and over the hydromel had drunk to her fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imperial Purple] Reference

I drank water and hydromel, and I told Yusuf that I preferred the last to wine, of which I never took much at that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

An immense number of guests were invited to the wedding feast; I, too, was there, and drank freely of wine and hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen] Reference

Our food was nuts and acorns, our drink milk and hydromel and water from the Choaspes, and we slept out of doors on the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

But a good memory, in dealing with the past, has the art of straining out all the beeswax of discomfort, and storing up little jars of pure hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things] Reference

Now the health of Prince Alexis was drunk, -- by the guests on the floor of the hall in Champagne, by those in the galleries in kislischi and hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference

Dawn was approaching when we went down to the river to embark; he had provided a boat, victims, hydromel, and all necessaries for our mystic enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

Brimmed with life's hydromel, and pressed to ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ogrin the Hermit] Reference

Quaffs the horn of hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference

Of the Song pouring hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Bees! bees! was it your hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature] Reference

Instead of tea I drank hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

He knows the smell of the hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs from Vagabondia] Reference

"Bees, bees, was it your hydromel?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Suburban Sketches] Reference

The sorcelled hydromel which brings Desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference

The mystic hydromel is spilt, and staining15.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chorus of Eden Spirits] Reference

The mineral clod alone supplied their hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 106. The Respite by Maria Gowen Brooks. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Let there be rivers of vodki, wine and hydromel!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference

Metheglin or hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference

The marriage hydromel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloucester Moors and Other Poems] Reference

"who drinks divine hydromel 4n the fecurcr and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icelandic poetry] Reference