Mead?

[DuncNZ]

Mead or at least alcohol made from honey must be the oldest or one of the oldest alcoholic beverages around . All someone would need to do was leave some honey water stored in a jar in the sun and then drink it . That could be way before grapes were grown for wine .

 

[Red Owl]

While talking about bees, I tried bee hunting once, I saw bees collecting pollen on flowers and no bee keepers in the area so I figured a wild hive. I caught a couple of bees but as I let one go it flew north, another south, a third back to the flowers- a little more complicated than explained in the books. As I write this I am now thinking if bee hunting was a hobby on the frontier there probably weren't too many bee keepers so mead? Maybe along the Atlantic coast areas.

 

[sawyer04]

No.
That's coffee.

Black coffee with a spot of honey.