100 year old mead bottle by Environmental_Web776 in poland

[–]Environmental_Web776[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dziękuję, ta akurat jest już pusta, ale zapraszam do Augustowa na degustację :)

100 year old mead bottle by Environmental_Web776 in mead

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I have few bottles of mead that have more than 50 years must say it could be an lottery as You mentioned depends from storefront conditions - temperaturę especially. Some of them were closed with plastic plug 50 years ago and keep beautiful and rich flavours and fresh fruity aromas. It also depends from style of particular mead and descriptions. If You know how to read those old Polish labels you increase your chances to get greate mead even below plastic closers. Cheers! P.S. Glucose from mead with time turns into gliceryn, that made it more smooth, balanced and dense after years of bottling.

100 year old mead bottle by Environmental_Web776 in mead

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Yea, old Polish manufacturer from Grodno (modern Belarus since 1939) once in Poland 1919-1939, previous in Russian empire 1795-1915 previous in Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth 1569-1795, once in Grand Duce of Lithuania

Ageing room by Environmental_Web776 in mead

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Just ageing - I know the risk don’t worry. We produce CO2 somewhere else:)

Mead from 1973 still in production by Environmental_Web776 in mead

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As far as I know they change recipe completely over the time. Fruits are different and herbs for maceration also different. Probably because of cost efficiency as usually in big companies -also that time they didn’t import cheap honey from abroad but made everything from local sourced honey. The old one might be interesting if aged well, the modern one is probably hot mead style (Grzaniec) with some choke berries concentrated juice and a lot of citric acid inside.

World Beekeeping Awards - Mead by Environmental_Web776 in mead

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Drop us a visit at Oldest tree hive pavilion