Mead fermented from summer flower honeys and pear juice from a local orchard. A delicate aroma of pears and a pleasant fruity, juicy pear taste. Light semi-sweet mead.
Der Met Drache mead is cold brewed from the highest quality honey from our own beehives to ensure the highest quality and taste. The manufacturer deliberately avoids filtration in order to preserve the most intense taste. Sometimes therefore be slightly cloudy. The mead matured for several months.
mead
Mead is an alcoholic beverage fermented from honey and water, with possibility of addition of other ingredients such as spices or herbs or in combination with fruit juices.
Melomel
Melomel is a fruit mead with is fermented from honey and fruit juices.
Type of honey
Blossom honey or nectar comes from the nectar of various flowers.
Production process
This mead was made cold. This means that during its production, the honey was not heated above 40-45 °C, which is the normal temperature in nature to which honey is resistant. At higher temperatures, some precious components of honey can be damaged and degraded. Cold-made mead is the best choice.
Producer Met Drache
Meadery focused in traditional mead and experimental batches.
Meadery focused in traditional mead and experimental batches.
We are a family apiary from the south of Bavaria. I trained as a beekeeper in Graz, Austria, where I obtained my journeyman's certificate. Our bees are located at various locations in mixed forests, flower meadows but also on the longest castle complex in the world in Burghausen. We keep the bees themselves as close to nature as possible and have the honeycombs expanded in natural construction. In this way, we obtain our special honey, which we then process into many different products. However, honey wine and honey liqueurs are for us the highest art of refining our honey. The fruits for our fruit varieties come almost exclusively from our own cultivation or from the flower meadows where our bees collect the nectar. "The Mead Dragon" (Der Met Drache) was born from our enthusiasm for craftsmanship and represents for us the combination of ancient tradition and mysticism which embodies this special drink for us. We offer our products at markets, medieval markets, various shops but also in our own beekeeping business. There we organize courses on beekeeping and mead production, because it is important to us to pass on this knowledge and the art of mead brewing to others in order to preserve these old traditions.