Drinks similiar to Rakia - Mead

Essentially mead is not a distilled drink but a very strong wine with honey as the main ingredient. It takes a very long time for it to mature, the longer the better.

Mead can have a wide range of flavours depending on the type of honey and additives used.
Commercially it is very difficult to get hold of, the are some producers of the drink but nowadays it is not widely know or drunk.

Mead is distilled to a brandy or liqueur strength and this is why it is here and the similarity is to Rakia begins.

An example of this is 'Krupnik' a sweet Polish high alcohol content drink is made through the distilling process of mead. Another version of this is called 'Honey Jack' The process involving partly freezing a quantity of mead and pouring off the liquid without the ice crystals, another method of distillation called freeze distillation. This is the same method as used to make 'Apple Jack' from cider.

Again, the popularity of the spirit from mead is just as rare than the mead. But like many other fashions, drink comes round and maybe mead will gain more recognition in the future.