Incredibly fragrant and sweet mead with lemon balm from the family garden. Captivating honey flavor with a subtle herbal touch, pleasantly aromatic.
This year's novelty, which was created as a test sample, when a lot of lemon balm grew in Lukáš Pleva's garden. Since we love lemon balm tea, we thought that it could also make excellent mead. Lukáš's daughters collected lemon balm and Milan Pleva put it into mead. We were so excited by the resulting taste of lemon mead that we decided to make it possible for you to taste it too.
And how does mead with lemon balm taste? We can't get enough of the scent of lemon balm mead, which can be compared to a sweet-smelling French perfume, the smell of which constantly draws you in. After tasting, your taste buds will be flooded with a very sweet, captivating honey flavor with a subtle herbal touch, which in the undertones is slightly reminiscent of gummy bears. But finding an exact comparison that captures its taste is difficult, so we would be interested in your opinion and we would be happy if you let us know how you would describe the taste of lemon balm mead.
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.
Metheglin
Metheglin is a type of mead with added (maturated) spices and herbs.
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 Pleva
Pleva's beekeeping company includes an assortment of not only mead, but also other bee products and cosmetics. Mead is cold-produced.
The production plant of the Pleva beekeeping company includes an assortment of not only mead, but also other bee products and cosmetics. Mead is made cold.
The Pleva family business is located in the spa town of Potštejn in the picturesque foothills of the Eagle Mountains. It specializes in the processing of medicinal bee products (honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis and bee venom) into cosmetics and food supplements. However, the most interesting thing for us is the production of meads, in which the people of Plevo specialize in single-species meads.
They have been raising bees since 1969 and processing bee products since 1990. However, they only started producing mead around 2003, initially in smaller quantities. From the beginning, they wanted to follow a honey-friendly path and also had the goal of offering something new, unique, which is missing on the market. They officially started offering mead only in 2008. The first mead was herbal and distinctly bitter, they also produced several honey liqueurs with nut and herbal variants. In the end, however, they focused on a quite unique but most interesting category of meads, which consists of meads made from one type of honey. The current offer includes acacia, linden, sunflower and forest honey meads, which are real delicacies and are popular for their distinct aroma and taste of original honey. Potštejn mead is fermented from classic flower honey.
The maturation period of meads is at least 1 year, but some meads have been refining their flavor for 5 years.
We at the Mead Museum from Plevů also buy some types of honey cosmetics.