CRYPTIC - Drinking Mead and White Russian

MEAD



In the Nordic Story Beowulf The Northmen drank Honey mead. Mead was the historical beverage par excellence and commonly brewed by the Germanic tribes in Northern Europe.

Mead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WHITE RUSSIAN



The drink is not traditionally Russian, but is so named due to vodka being the primary ingredient. The "White Russians" were an anti-Bolshevik group from the Russian Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Russian_(cocktail)