Does mead taste bad?
Don’t mistake the opinions of characters in a book for either the opinions of the author or for any kind of objective truth. I’ve had really nice mead, rich and honeyish, normally handed to me in small glasses by people who had brewed it themselves, and I’ve had a thin and noxious substance that tastes like sweet, alcoholic pickle-juice passed to me (usually by commercial mead-vendors) representing itself as mead. It made for a much more enjoyable scene to write if Shadow had a glass of the second kind.
