Mead - an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.
Methegline - a mead made w/ herbs and spices.
Melomel - a mead made w/ fruit.
Braggot - a mead made w/ grain (like beer).
Cyser - a mead made w/ apple cider.
Pyment - a mead made w/ grapes (like wine).
Must - yeast food, this is a sugary liquid destined to become wine.
Wort - yeast food again, this one has less sugar than a must and will become beer.
Adjunct - an ingredient in a wort or must which is added not to provide fermentable sugars but to add flavor or aroma.
Yeast - a microorganism in the fungus kingdom which converts sugar into alcohol, releasing carbon dioxide.
Slurry - the yeast-and-water sludge leftover after racking
Racking - carefully removing fermenting liquid from a fermentor leaving behind most of the dead yeast and other sediments.
Fermentor - a vessel used to contain fermenting liquid.
Pitching - adding yeast to a must or wort, which begins the fermentation process.
