Wild Honey Mead Formulation

Mead, the honey wine, traced from medieval German tree beekeepers (the Zeidlerei, and Karl IV's charter of 1350) to Berlin's city hives in Schiffer trees and BienenBoxes. Its seasonal table of Berlin honey runs from robinia through linden to oak honeydew, though it also lists almond, peach and loquat, and it notes that German conservation law restricts taking honey from wild colonies. Most pages keep yeast alive in a dense must, treating wild fermentation as a risk and leaning on bought Lalvin yeasts and Campden tablets.