While at my other job last week someone asked, “Is mead wine or beer?”
“It’s beer, ” I said immediately. Then I paused, briefly, reexamining my assumptions. “It’s honey based… I always assumed it was a beer.” This last phrase was said in ever quieter tones, as I became more introspective.
“Isn’t it commonly referred to as honey wine?” someone else commented.
“To the internet!” Here’s what we found.
Witness mead, aka honey wine. Doesn’t look like beer to me (well, maybe MGD 64).
So… we’re supposed to believe that after a day replete with pillage, plunder and general bad-assery the legendary Vikings sat around and drank white wine? Out of animal horns?Fabulous animal horns?
OK, so maybe a society comprised wholly of white wine drinkers doesn’t necessarily lead to other emasculate activities. Some might even argue that white wine isn’t emasculative. Some might argue dinosaurs weren’t wiped out by a hunk of rock and ice from space, but rather they built spaceships and left Earth altogether.