Obviously, we cannot put up the price of meads.
In a small thing like this, it would assist if they were encouraged in making mead.
I am advised that it is spiced mead.
It is used rather than "wine" because it covers fermented drinks made from fruit other than grape and also mead and metheglin.
Six tons of imported honey have been allocated to this factory on condition that all the mead obtained from it will be exported.
Simply because this duty is placed upon the mead.
At my county show there were a few bottles of mead which the producers wished to sell commercially, but they could not do so.
It is true that, unlike many years ago, there is not a great desire to drink mead.
