The sweet, windy taste of mint from Potštejn gardens and flower honey is a refreshing memory of summer. Limited Edition.
Mint from our potštejn gardens
It took a lot of mint to make my mint mead idea a reality. We started harvesting in front of our post office, but it was immediately clear that it was not enough. So we continued in the garden of our house and eventually we also got mint from my grandmother's garden.
I added fresh, freshly picked mint to the honey, enjoying its typical fresh aroma and looking forward to tasting the mead for the first time. And now I can say that the mint mead was a really good idea!
How does mint mead taste?
Although the strong aroma of mint is softened by the sweet smell of honey, you can recognize it in the mead at the first sniff, the intense, fresh smell of mint will take you pleasantly :-)
And it doesn't disappoint when tasting either. Exactly as expected, it wakes you up with its aroma, infuses you with a refreshing peppermint flavor with a soft, sweet honey undertone and pleasantly wakes you up. The admixture of mint in mead is so original that it takes the taste of mead to a new level, you wouldn't even say it's actually mead :-)
The typical fresh taste and aroma of mint may slightly remind you of homemade mint lemonade and perhaps also your favorite mojito. Mint mead will certainly be a great choice for preparing various mixed drinks. Unless, of course, you don't recognize that it's too bad for her to mix. Because it tastes wonderful, windy sweet on its own.
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.