Medovukha

Medovukha is a Slavic honey-based alcoholic beverage. It is very similar to mead; but medovukha is produced much faster (approx. less than 1 month of fermentation). The words mead and medovukha are closely related and go back to the Proto-Indo-European word*médʰu (honey). Produced in Eastern Europe since pagan times, it remained popular well into the 19th century (unlike in Western Europe, where by the Middle Ages mead had already been mostly replaced by wine and beer).[citation needed] Wild honey farming was one of the first Slavic trades. They discovered that honey could be fermented, and the first fermented honey appeared as a luxury product in Europe, where it was imported in huge quantities.

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