Thank you all for reassuring replies.  The mead solution was quite interesting.  I've ordered a mead book.  I haver images of great, hairy, northern men with great tankards of mead, sitting around a rough table and throwing bones over their shoulders to the dogs.  It may take some practice, but I think I have it in me!!

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