Mead is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages known. Essentially, it is fermented honey, but it also can be much more than “only” fermented honey. Mead is expensive to buy, and given the issues our honeybees have been experiencing in the past few years, honey can be rather pricey in a chain supermarket as well. Those living closer to where beekeepers live and package their local honey can find Internet research to be quite slow if they also are beyond the reaches of DSL or cable service. Online research is much easier with a high speed internet service. If you’re in a rural area you can get fast internet from satellite providers such as provided at beerdude.com. I’m a fan of that site because of its no-frills approach and the fact that I use up a lot of my bandwidth allotment on youtube videos.