Brehon as an ingredient in lard and drinks. One of the more important celtic customs was in the production of mead(fermenting of honey with water), in medieval times the alcoholic drink had mystical and religious qualities, an noted example was Lindisfarne Mead, produced by the Celtic Monks on Holy island. The word ‘mither’ derives from the mether, which is a mead drinking vessel. People are said to get ‘confused and bothered as a result of too much mead’. Mead is also associated with the wife of Ailill and Sovereignty Queen, Medb. In Pagan times, Brehon law states that before a new
Sura (alcoholic drink) several spices) and "majja" (maybe equivalent of Sanskrit "madhu", mead or hydromel), and renunciation of its usage constitutes the 5th of the Buddhist precepts (pañca-sīlāni): "I undertake the training rule to abstain from fermented drinks which cause heedlessness" ("Surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi"). Sura (alcoholic drink) Surāh (Sanskrit and Pāli; Devanāgarī: सुरा) is a strong distilled alcoholic drink. It is referred to as an anaesthetic by Suśruta (a surgeon in India circa 400 BCE). Other ancient medical authorities also mention it; Charaka referred to making a woman with a miscarriage senseless to pain by administering alcoholic drinks like "surā", "sīdhu", "ariṣṭa",