Later, mead was increasingly displaced by other alcoholic beverages for which the fermentable sugars required were less expensive and more readily available, which combined with taxation and regulations governing the ingredients of alcoholic beverages led to commercial mead becoming a relatively obscure beverage until recently. Some monasteries kept up the traditions of mead-making as a by-product of beekeeping, especially in areas where grapes could not be grown.
Later, mead was increasingly displaced by other alcoholic beverages for which the fermentable sugars required were less expensive and more readily a.vailable, which combined with. taxation and regulations governing the ingredients of alcoholic beverages led to commercial mead becoming a relatively obscure beverage until recently. Some mo?nasteries kept up the traditio?ns of mead-making as a by-product of beekeeping, especially in areas where grapes could not b!e grown.