Anyone who has ever had experience with food preparation, has likely been obliged to consider which kinds of beverages go well with specific food items, so guests can enjoy a satisfying total experience. When you’re planning on serving mead to your dinner guests, you’ll have lots of options for mixing and matching various mead flavors with a number of food entrees and side dishes. For those who are unfamiliar with mead, it is a popular alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey and water, and it’s often mixed with various fruits and spices to achieve a very appealing flavor and presentation.
Dry meads with cheese
Everyone appreciates a pre-dinner snack of cheese and crackers, and this would be the perfect time to provide a nice, dry mead to accompany the snacks. Beehaven Beverage, LLC offers a wide variety of meads appropriate for this kind of scenario, including Chai, Ginger Coriander, and Lavender Berry. This delightful interlude prior to the main event will serve to whet the appetites of your guests for what is to come.
Fruity meads with dessert
If you’re planning something like a pie, a strawberry mousse, or some other fruit-based dessert, almost any fruity mead will be a perfect complement for the dish. A pumpkin spice mead from Beehaven Beverage or a watermelon mead might be ideal for whatever dessert you have planned.
You might also want to choose a peach or cranberry mead to go hand-in-hand with the dessert du jour. The natural sweetness of a dessert featuring some kind of fruit will be ideal when paired with a fruity mead.
Floral and citrus meads with salad
Even salads can be effectively paired with a favorite flavor of mead, and if you stick to meads that are light and refreshing, you’ll have no trouble finding a suitable pairing. As an example, Beehaven’s Citrus Bliss mead or the cranberry mead will pair up very nicely with the salad course for your dinner. Guests will love the semi-sweet appeal of these particular meads in tandem with the fresh, cool appeal of salad ingredients.
Apple cyser and meats
When you get around to serving the main course of your dinner, the perfect mead for accompaniment may depend on just what kind of entree you’re serving. Chicken and pork go very well with cyser, which is a kind of apple cider mead that gets created from blending apple juice and honey before fermentation.
You can also use peach mead for some kinds of entrees, and you can experiment a bit with your meads to figure out which one would best match the qualities presented by whatever entree you have in mind.
Planning for larger gatherings
If you are charged with planning dinner for a large number of guests, it’s best to have several different types of mead on hand, so that people can enjoy making their own selections. Beehaven Beverage offers a wide variety of extremely tasty and appealing mead flavors, so everyone will be sure to find one that suits their taste buds, regardless of whether the mead is paired with snacks, main courses, desserts, or finger foods.