Advantages: Light, easy to drink, delicious flavour Disadvantages: Can be hard to find in shops
more correctly known as "melomel". The ingredients used mean that Lindisfarne Mead is both sweeter and stronger than some more traditional meads. It is perhaps most similar to sweet sherry and those who enjoy sherry will enjoy mead too. However, this mead is more versatile than sherry and does not need to be served chilled to be enjoyed the way sherry should be.
Lindisfarne mead comes in two bottle sizes, the full size bottle of 70cl (regular wine or spirit bottle size) and a smaller 35cl bottle, which is ideal for gifts or if you aren't sure whether you will enjoy it or not. The bottles are clear glass and screw cap which makes it easy to store once opened and allows you to see the rich golden colour of the liquid within. Once opened it is probably best to consume it within about a month or so but I have kept it for longer with no ...
Advantages: Quirky, wordy, brainy, zany Disadvantages: Christopher Biggins
Eagle-eyed TV viewers may have spotted a recent three-part series about Scotland that sneaked out on BBC4. Although, hidden away at bedtime as it was, they could have been forgiven for missing it. Called Off-Kilter, it was the latest quirky outing by one Jonathan Meades. If it had been fronted by Griff Rhys Jones or Michael Palin, it would have been endlessly trailed, given a feature in Radio Times and a prime-time slot on BBC2.
As it is, the BBC seems mildly ashamed of a programme-maker who, almost uniquely today, fulfils in each programme the complete mission of its founder Lord Reith - to educate, inform and to entertain.
Still, we should be glad that Meades is allowed to make programmes at all. If most current TV is dumbed-down, Meades is the opposite - smartened up, maybe? Dressed in his trademark dark suit and tie, as in all ...
Advantages: original, well-executed, musically diverse and hugely enjoable! Disadvantages: vocals arent very accomplished ( though they still fit somehow)
Crusader-themed black metal played by a bunch of English blokes that like to pose on their album covers stood in front of ruined castles dressed up in medieval armour and waving swords around... sounds well and truly cringeworthy doesn't it?
Fortunately, The Meads of Asphodel are a hugely talented and entertaining band with a strong sense of humour, and their second full length, "Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua" is a pleasure to listen to from start to finish.
In keeping with the band's image, "Exhuming..." deals with the outbreak of psychological and ideological epidemy that was the crusades, and the brutal violence they involved, as well as the insanity of religious war in general. It highlights the xenophobic and fanaticial perspective of Christian Europe at the time, whilst simultaneusly decrying religious war in general, thus ...
