Miod Pitny Benedyktynskie Trojniak

And now for something special, a Polish Mead sealed with wax in a ceramic flagon and a gift from a Polish friend.

The first scent is quite sweet and possibly a little sugary, the colour is quite dark and the taste is quite unusual. There’s something else here almost a coffee like tang, or something herbal?

One wonders if this is the taste of age, although perhaps the ornate bottle and my mind are playing tricks on me. Still this is the richest tasting mead I’ve tried so far.

The image to the right isn’t quite right, as I’m unsure as to precisely where in Poland this Mead comes from. The bottle looks like something from Pasieka however The seal reads thus

Ministerstwo Finansow RP Znak Akcyzy Podat Kraj

Which is all-but identical to the lable on a bottle of Apis mead, so logically they are from the same place. The bottle also has etched into the ceramic

Opactwo Benedyktynow w Jyncu

So I guess this is some sort of Benedictine mead

Equally there is a listing on the Apis website for a Trójniak Bernardyński which is so damn similar they must be the same even if no ceramic bottle is shown. The website describes the Mead thus:

This type of mead is produced from nectar honey. 1 litre of mead contains 420 g of natural honey. Trójniak contains 13% of alcohol. The maturation period is 2 years.


It has a winy moderately sweet flavor. Chokeberry juice and spices added during the fermentation process make the flavor one of its kind

Which maybe explains the very unusual taste. Not unpleasant just odd, and my first Metheglin

Finally over ice the mead tastes almost peppery, and the scent is even stronger. Perhaps a little like a cough medicine, A very strange concoction this indeed, that may take some time to grow on me.