Melomel is a mead made with fruit or fruit juice and here are some other common styles:
Mead Styles
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<LI>Mead - made with honey, water and yeast optionally with flavoring ingredients
<LI>Hydromel - the French name for mead
<LI>Sack mead - a sweeter mead, with more honey
<LI>Melomel - mead made with fruit or fruit juice
<LI>Metheglin - mead made with spices and extracts
<LI>Morat - mead made with mulberries
<LI>Pyment - mead made with both honey and grapes
<LI>Hippocras - honey, grapes, and spices
<LI>Cyser - honey and apples or apple cider (apple juice in Europe) Can also be made with peach, cherry or pear cider
<LI>Braggot - honey and malt, sort of a mead-beer
<LI>Oxymel - mead mixed with wine vinegar
<LI>Rhodomel - honey with attar, a rose petal distillate, or rose petals
<LI>Capsicumel - honey with chile peppers
<LI>Omphacomel - mead and verjuice, the juice of unripe grapes
<LI>T'ej - T'ej is honey, water and hops. It is the national drink of Ethiopia, and has a unique taste </LI>[/list]Edited by: masta