The third valued drink apart from the wine and beer in the Middle Ages was the mead. The medieval mead was a stark alcoholic beverage made of honey, herbs and berries although any exact recipe has not survived. Mead had divine effects so it was said: it gave as much strength and wisdom. In Valhalla baquets the mead was drunk and also Edda praises it. In Snorri's saga is said that many of the Uppsala-kings were drunken to death in mead. Mead stayed popular during the renaissance - Gustaf Wasa of Sweden for example liked especially lithuanian mead. Till the 19th century the mead however disappeared from the tables.
