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
Drink mixer the ingredients for a particular drink pre-mixed. The only thing that needs to be added is alcohol. The addition of a sauce usually imparts a surprising new taste to a familiar drink. Hot sauces are commonly used in drinking games. The key ingredient in a syrup is sugar, which sweetens any drink into which it is mixed. Other flavors are often added to a sugar syrup. Many other food and beverage items can be used in mixed drinks. These are some other common ones. Drink mixer Drink mixers are the non-alcoholic ingredients in mixed drinks and cocktails. There are many