All'inizio del XIV secolo, Pierre de Duisburg, autore di una cronaca dell'Ordine teutonico, scriveva che gli antenati dei lituani bevevano acqua, vino di miele — denominato idromele — e latte di giumenta, ma sempre dopo averli consacrati.
Kings and noblemen drank mare’s milk, while poor people and slaves drank mead. The Aistians brewed no ale, because there was mead aplenty. At the beginning of the 14th century, Peter of Dusburg, chronicler of the Teutonic Order, wrote that the ancestors of the Lithuanians drank plain water, honey wine — known as mead — and mare’s milk, but they never drank that unconsecrated.
