 lagermonkey (597), Marietta, Georgia, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Oct 1, 2005 Sticker on bottle says Aged Since November 2000.
Pours a murky, orangish brown. Thin tan head, quickly dissipates. Looks almost flat but the mouth reveals some carbonation. Smells of honey and sweet mead. Caramel. Nutty, vanilla. Fruity, ripe plum. Vinuous.
Tastes of rich caramel malt. Vanilla and oak. Honey. Light alcohol flavor. Sweet. Earthy and bready. Spiced apple way back. Very barleywine-ish but with a bit of mead flavor mixed in. Mouth is velvet smooth. Elegantly masks the alcohol. A sipper but a real smooth one. Must get more to age...
CapFlu (3494), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Sep 24, 2005 (22oz bottle) 2004 Vintage purchased at Downeast Beverage in Portland, Maine, for US$6.89. Pours a beautiful copper colour with a thin, white, quick-dissipating head. Stong flower, perfume aroma with a slight undertone of sulpher. The flavour is rather caramel and honey and very pleasant though I think the palate lacks any lasting finish. I found some of my colleagues reviews seem to forget that they are rating what we’ve listed as a mead. This is pretty good as its got a lot of flavours and dimension.
WISEGUY572 (1252), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| 2.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 9/20 |
Sep 23, 2005 Maybe a honey ale is supposed to be cloyingly sweet, with an unpeasant mouth feel. Maybe a honey ale is supposed to lie there dead in the glass with no head. Maybe the flavor is supposed to be simple and unbalanced, with sweetness, bitternesss, and a tiny bit of malt but nothing to integrate them and tie them together. I have not had enough honey ales to know. But I surely did not care for this one. I had a glass, half a large bottle. I’ll pour the rest of the bottle down the sink.
tbookman (618), Ephrata, Pennsylvania, USA
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 2/5 | 10/20 |
Sep 1, 2005 Hazy light orange color - very little head. Smell of honey and scotch. Flavor is cloying sweet with a very astringent mouthfeel from the alcohol. Other flavors of bread, and bit of hoppy bitterness. Average.
Cletus (5060), Connecticut, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 16, 2005 Pretty sub par for a mead. Copper/yellow with no trace of a head whatsoever. Smells of honey and wheat. Tastes of honey and apples.
beerbuzzmontreal (2942), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 10, 2005 On tap at the brewery.Clear copper color with no head. Aroma of fruits, honey and alcohol. Flavor of fruits, honey and alcohol. The palate is liquorous.
SJP (483), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 7, 2005 Nice. This was a really nice beer. Sweet honey goodness was in there, but so was a lot of complexity, especially compared to other honey beers I can think of. Nice dark golden color with hints of malty sweetness in the aroma. The alcohol was barely noticable in the flavor, butthe overall flavor wasn’t as strong as I would expect for a barely winish ale, as that was what they caled it at the brewery. Anyway, a good drink.
fly (1334), austin, Tejas, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 25, 2005 Unique? Perhaps, but the sophisticatications was lost on this hillbilly. Honey was present as would be expected, but found precious little else. Was hoping for I know not what - perhaps some exquisite dry quality imparted by the honey or a rare honey from the blosom of a flower known only to five people on the planet. Well, that didn’t happen.
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