Mead "pyment". Mulled mead is a popular drink at Christmas time, where mead is flavored with spices (and sometimes various fruits) and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it. Some meads retain some measure of the sweetness of the original honey, and some may even be considered as dessert wines. Drier meads are also available, and some producers offer sparkling meads. There are faux-meads, which are actually wines with honey added after fermentation as a sweetener and flavoring. Historically, meads were fermented with wild yeasts and bacteria (as noted in the recipe quoted above) residing on the skins
Ingredient branding - or at least take it into account in the communication policy - if the image of this ingredient will have an effect on the consumer, meaning a positive influence on his or her buying decision. Cooperative advertising can be used to stimulate the end product manufacturer to advertise the ingredient, though it is seldom done. While "Intel Inside" has success with this large cooperative advertising program, there are few cooperative advertising program offered by other ingredient suppliers. To investigate this question, Juan Zhang and his co-authors introduced a dynamic cooperative advertising model in an assemble supply chain where the