Church-Key Purple Loosestrife Mead

Enriched yellow colour with thin crown of little bubbles. Fizzy carbonation. Thin mouthfeel and astringent for a mead, even one brewed with hops. Half a cup is enough.

cask at Volo
Appearance: Bright with greenish tint mead. Rocky ring on top.
Nose: Good mead aroma , slight sourness with honey sweet , flowery , alcoholic side. 7+
Flavor/Palate : Full bodied. Flat front with clean mead-honey feel in center. Flowery feel abound, sweet sugary finish. Slightly flat at end, missing alcoholic punch to balance.

Cask. At Volo Cask Days 2008. this rating has eluded me for a long time - and now I get it on cask! Poured a pale greenish, somewhat oily-looking, no head, a little clouding to it. Aroma of fresh clover and honey - pungently of clover. The taste is very light and delicate, just mild honey sweetness, very grassy and fresh. Incredibly soft and light mouthfeel, still on the tongue, a light quick finish - yummy and dangerously easy to drink.

TFOB 2006. Yellow body with a small white head. Muted sweet aroma is lightly floral, honey. Dry flavour with a sweet honey middle, light floral spicyness. Average palate. Nice mead, very drinkable with a nice balance too. Well done Church Key.

Draught at Smokeless Joe. Wow, 1300 ratings and this is my first mead, I’m not even sure how to rate a mead. Oh well, here goes: Pours a clear bubbly pale yellow with a small lasting white head. Sweet aroma of honey, grain and apple -- pretty nice. Flavour: hmmm, strange: starts mild, dry and sweet but really kicks in halfway with alcohol and bitterness and there’s not as much honey as the aroma suggests. Pretty light bodied. It’s alright but I can only handle a small amount of this, I can’t imagine someone drinking a full glass.

Cask@Volo last evening. Nose is a fruity lemon honey mix, very hazy yellow, zero head. Taste is like lemon cough drops, light bodied, a bit sweet. Good. Thank You Ralph.

I’m going to bring this one down just a bit, only because the bottle I bought from the brewery did not reach the same level as the fresh draught sample from the brewery previous. The flavour was less intense and it seemed over carbonated and almost wine like. Still a great mead, just not outstanding. On tap at the Church Key Spring Revival 07. Dark yellow,small white head. Really nice aroma of sweet honey and citrus fruit, mixed with floral notes. Body is surprisingly well carbonated - almost like a champagne. Taste is sweet, but nothing overpowering or syrupy. Nice tingle on the tongue. Alcohol well hidden, but you do know it is there. A really tasty and drinkable mead - really well done John.

[1805-20081018] Cask. Apple flower blossom wheat aroma and apple skins. Hazy, pale yellow white body with quick white bubbles. Fruity apple skins flavour also hints at sweet apples with some berries. Light-medium body. Tastes better than it smells.
(Cask Days 2008 @ Volo; Toronto, ON)