Named after the Old English words medu or meodu, which mean "fermented honey drink," mead is just that: an alcoholic beverage made from a base of honey, water, and fermented using either yeast or ...

Fermented garlic and honey is one of the most well known herbal remedies! It has roots in traditional medicine as a wellness staple along with culinary practices that date back centuries.

So far, these include a beer likely served at King Midas’s funerary feast, and a 9,000-year-old fermented rice and honey drink from Neolithic China—which, McGovern says, still “goes very wel ...