Art of Mead
Ground Tour Includes:
- 7 days, 6 nights
- All accommodations (double rooms, private bathrooms)
- All transfers to and from Lublin
- All meals on campus
- All equipment and ingredients
- Training conducted in English
- Mix of classroom time and hands-on learning
- Meads pre-made at various fermentation stages so you fast-forward through the process.
Getting there
The best airport to fly into is Warsaw. Transfer to the Warsaw central train station where there are frequent train connections direct to Lublin.
Coming in 2010
Syllabus:
Day 1, Sunday: Arrive Lublin
- Pick-up at the Lublin train station Transfer to Pszczela Wola
- Night at Pszczela Wola
Day 2, Monday: Know your honey
- Breakfast
- Classroom (1/3 day)
- Everything about bees
- Everything about honey
- Lunch
- Hands-on (2/3 day)
- Working with bees
- Gathering honey
- Clarifying honey
- Dinner
- Night at Pszczela Wola
Day 3, Tuesday: Preparing the mash
- Breakfast
- Classroom (1/2 day)
- Introduction to mead making equipment
- Sensory selection of different kinds of honey
- Preparing the mash
- Setup of yeast culture
- Lunch
- Hands-on (1/2 day)
- Preparation of the mash: establishing the proportions of mash, melting of honey, cooking of mix, measuring of extract
- Dinner
- Night at Pszczela Wola
Day 4, Wednesday: Halfway to mead and other honey alcohols
- Breakfast
- Classroom (1/4 day)
- Progression of fermentation
- Seasoning of the mash
- Filling of the carboys and vaccination of mash
- How to tell if it's is going to be a good batch
- Hands-on (1/4 day)
- Equipment preparation
- Testing
- Transferring
- Lunch
- Other honey-based alcohols (1/2 day)
- Preparing ‘krupniks’ and other liquors according to selected recipes
- Field trip: Institute of Orchard Tending and Commercial Flower Production, Beekeeping Division in Pulawy
- Dinner
- Night at Pszczela Wola
Day 5, Thursday: The finished product and other uses for honey
- Breakfast
- Classroom (1/4 day)
- Bottling
- Pasteurization
- Corking
- Labeling
- Lunch
- Hands-on (1/2 day)
- Bottling and Pasteurization
- Corking and Labeling
- Hands-on (1/4 day) Other honey products
- Baking honey cookies
- Making non-alcoholic honey drinks
- Field Trip: Api Therapy Institute of Dr. Giza (honey therapy)
- Dinner
- Night at Pszczela Wola
Day 6, Friday: Commercial mead
- Tour and tasting of the Apis
- Breakfast
- Transfer to the international award wining commercial mazer Apis
- Tour of the facility and mead Tasting
- Afternoon in Lublin
- Field trip: Visit to the town of Karzimierz
- Return to campus
- Dinner
- Night at Pszczela Wola
Day 7, Saturday: Depart
- Transfer from Pszczela Wola to the Lublin Train Station