Mead ingredients of alcoholic beverages led to commercial mead becoming a more obscure beverage until recently. Some monasteries kept up the old traditions of mead-making as a by-product of beekeeping, especially in areas where grapes could not be grown. The English "mead" – "fermented honey drink" – derives from the Old English "meodu" or "medu", and Proto-Germanic, *"meduz" (source also of Old Norse mjöðr, Danish mjød, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch mede, Old High German metu, German Met "mead"). "Madh", and the related terms "mad" (मद, مد) and "madira" (मदिरा, مدِرا), also mean alcohol. These words are all derived from the
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