B. Nektar Bourbon Barrel Mead

Brewed by B. Nektar Meadery
Style: Mead
Ferndale, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

(Bottle) Pours a still lightly hazy yellow body. Aroma of bourbon, honey, and vanilla. Flavor of honey, florals, wood, raisins, and bourbon.

Date: July 18, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brusin Ales, Asheville NC
Appearance: hazy pale gold, thick and viscous, heavy legs
Aroma: sweet honey aroma enhanced by caramel and vanilla sweetness
Body: thick and viscous body
Flavor: sweet honey flavor, touch of hot caramel, vanilla sweetness, warming finish, very rich
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+ /4

Bottle.... courtesy of Plovmand.... Thx bro.... :) .... it pours clear golden....... the aroma is orange, honey and alcohol.... the flavor is sweet full bodied, honey, warm alcohol and orange ..... very nice ! .....

Bottle at Theis tasting. Pours yellow with no head. Aroma is dry honey not as sweet as expected, vanilla and "orange" like. Flavour is honey, ripe fruit, vanilla and a hint of bourbon and oak. Very pleasant and not cloying.

bottled. Yellow coloured. Clear. No head. HOney, ripe fruits, sweetness, vanilla, flavour of ripe fruits, honey, sweetness, spice and some flowers, distinct barrel. Meidum to full bodied. Ends sweet and honeyish

Bottle at home - Thanks. Clear golden - no head. Honey, sweetness, blossom (blomster pollen), light vanilla, fruity, drynes, zesty notes, light citrus, light sulfar, light wooden, coconut, raisins, light alcho sharpness.

Bottle. Trade from monsterzero. Pours clear golden. Oranges, light citrus, honey and light bourbon aroma. A mellow feeling. Some wood. Ripe fruit, bourbon, honey, candy, wood and some sweet berries. Very good and mellow.

Pours gold into a snifter. Still with no head. Honey and oak aromas. Thick with sweet honey and orange citrus upfront turning to bourbon in the lasting finish.