A question

[mikekn]

Wine and Cheese.
Beer and Pretzels.
Mead and ???

Comments

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Lutefisk

[finnfinnegan.livejournal.com]

Fresh fruit?

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

I'd say a mild goat cheese on water crackers. Or Brie. Or Goat Brie. Something that will cut the (usually) sweetness, without overpowering the mead.

Or, if it's for the palate cleansing (where crackers are usually used in wine tasting), I'd say plain water crackers. Definately not "wine crackers" since they're often sweet.

And, yeah, Lutefisk -- eeewww...

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Crackers.

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

lingonberries. Not kidding.

[marietta-sca.livejournal.com]

I would say fresh baked bread, but Aesa probably knows better :)

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Doritoes!

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

The progression isn't about palate cleansing, because cheese and pretzels don't really do that, except by contrast.

Wine and cheese are both products aged over a long time, and can be very expensive. And they taste fairly good together.

Beer and pretzels age over shorter times and are both more yeasty. They cost less. And they taste fairly good together.

So mead would need something which has some production values similar to itself, something that constrasts, and something which tastes good with it. My first reaction was "meat" because it fits two of those, and has nice alliteration as well. Cruncy artisan bread would be tasty, too, perhaps with cheeses.

If you don't want to go with amateur opinions, surely there must be commercial meaderies which have suggestions for either pairings or tastings?

[redkcolumbus.livejournal.com]

I usually treat a mead like a desert wine because they tend to be sweet, ranging from "sweet wine" to "intense cordial." Thus a variety of food stuffs goes well. I tend to go with a european desert model - cheese, nuts, some fruit, maybe some bread. In general I don't think mead goes well with meat, unless it's a lighter mead with something like a cider-braised port.

Mead is to wine as kool aid is to flavored water. Much more intense.

[faerydusted1.livejournal.com]

vegemite!

[(Anonymous)]

As a couple others have said, I'm thinking a good bread here.

[mare-in-flames.livejournal.com]

Chocolate!
Herring!
Sushi!
Beans!

Obviously, I have absolutely nothing to add to this conversation, as I have never tasted mead. Still... herring. Hee. :)

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Nuts and dried fruit. Anything that you'd put into a fruitcake -- the real fruitcake, not those rubbery things.

Wintery autumny things like apples.

Hell, maybe I just need to go put on a sweater.

[zgwortz.livejournal.com]

Mead and More Mead!!!

(This coming from a teetotaler... ;-)

[jkusters]

Mutton. :-)

JOhn.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I would most like to drink mead with a meat pie or cornish pasty.

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

Women. Preferably big-breasted.

(ducks for cover)

[edelweiss68.livejournal.com]

Meat pasties!

[merricke.livejournal.com]

Chocolate covered pretzels and/or chocolate covered poundcake. Mmmm.

[lissa510.livejournal.com]

i think this posts got the most comments i've ever seen!!!