Mead is an alcoholic drink from fermented honey
Dating back thousands of years, mead is an alcoholic drink created by fermenting honey. It was once thought to be the drink of the gods and is widely associated with the Viking culture.
Early Filipinos, according to records, also have our own fermented honey alcoholic drinks. The Philippines have Bais, which is a traditional mead from the Mandaya and Dibabawon Manobo of northeastern Mindanao island in the southern part of the archipelago. Additionally, there is the Kabawaran drink from the Visayas region made from honey and paste from the kabarawan tree (Neolitsea villosa).
La Mesa Mead is our brand of alcoholic mead. We have traditional, pineapple, and coffee variants. Coffeexmead is our line of low ABV and non-alcoholic mead-based beverages. All brewed nearby La Mesa Watershed, the last remaining rainforest of its size in Metro Manila.
It's a wrap!
It’s a wrap! Thank you for supporting Coffeexmead and La Mesa Mead this 2024. Your patronage not only benefits our startup, but also our Filipino beekeeper suppliers. What’s more, each sale of a wooden gift box goes directly to our QC local furniture and woodwork businesses and their employees.
Some highlights for this year:
- We sold 17x more La Mesa Mead bottles this year than 2023
- We bought 800 kilos of honey from local beekeepers just this year, on top of our own honey harvest
- We hosted the first International Mead Day Celebration in the Philippines
- We provided part time work to more than 4 working students
- We were part of the inaugural QCertified Program of the Quezon City LGU SBCDPO in partnership with DOST, DTI, PUP Manila, and FDA
- We were featured in the first POP QC Tatak Kyusi Coffee table book for 2024
- We joined 18 bazaars and events including the 2024 Philippine Social Enterprise Roadmap Conference as delegate and exhibitor
We couldn’t do all of this without all of you!
Our humble journey....
We’ve come a long way, but there’s still so much to do. Here are more pictures of our journey and our story of bringing mead to the Filipino table. Catch us in our next pop-up in our calendar of events.
We're mead to celebrate!
We've been featured....
Another milestone in our humble journey in making mead. La Mesa Mead and Coffeexmead is part of the 85 MSMEs and products featured in the POP QC Tatak Kyusi book for 2024. POP QC or Proudly Original Products of Quezon City is a program of the QC Small Business and Cooperatives Development and Promotions Office (QC-SBCDPO). This book is also in celebration of QC’s 85th founding anniversary!
FYI, we’re not the only mead manufacturer nor the first in the Philippines. This honor of being first goes to Dielle’s Apiary and Meadery based in Muntinlupa.
Let's drink mead and bee merry!
There’s no rule in drinking mead. Room temp, chilled, on the rocks, as a cocktail? It’s all okay, just drink it how you want it enjoyed. You can also make use of any glassware or even the traditional mead-horns from the Viking culture.
One thing for sure, you drink mead to celebrate! Mead is a happy and festive drink.
Experience a unique cocktail experience
Mead cocktails are cocktails that use mead as one of the ingredients. It can have different flavors and styles, depending on the type of mead and the other ingredients used. Cocktails are mixed drinks typically made with a distilled liquor as its base ingredient that is then mixed with other ingredients or garnishments. Some of the most popular cocktails include Old Fashioned, Negroni, Daiquiri, Dry Martini, and Margarita. Cocktails can be served in different ways, such as on the rocks, neat, blended, or shaken.
