mulse

wine

Also known as: mulsum

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The term "mulse" refers to an obsolete beverage consisting of honey mixed with wine or water. This is distinct from "mulling," which is the process of heating, sweetening, and flavoring a beverage like wine or cider with spices. Flavored wines, such as vermouth, aperitif wines, May wine, sangria, mulled wine, and wine coolers, are also created by adding various ingredients to wine.123

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…although the Roman mulsum, or mulse, was not mead but wine sweetened with honey. In Celtic and Anglo-Saxon literature, such as the writings of Taliesin and in the Mabinogion and Beowulf, mead is the drink of kings and thanes. Chaucer’s Miller drank mead, but by the 14th century spiced ale…
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…although the Roman mulsum, or mulse, was not mead but wine sweetened with honey. In Celtic and Anglo-Saxon literature, such as the writings of Taliesin and in the Mabinogion and Beowulf, mead is the drink of kings and thanes. Chaucer’s Miller drank mead, but by the 14th century spiced ale…
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