Cumberland Meade

Brewed by Cumberland Brews
Style: Mead
Louisville, Kentucky USA

Serve in Snifter

Tap at brewpub. Honey malt aroma. Cloudy golden yellow color. Honey flavor initially followed by malt and a mild bitter finish. A great mead.

Cloudy straw gold pour with no carbonation. Sweet honey aroma and a hint of abv. Honey, light sweet, with an earthy finish. A bit thin and watery but very nice.

I really liked this one. very light and sweet honey flavor, a touch more alcohol flavor than i’d have liked, but overall a very pleasant refreshing experience.

This was a very cool little treat. Nose was obviously of some light honey and taste was very much of honey and fusel alcohol, though there was also some nice beer-esque taste. The more I drank it, the more it grew on me, as I"m not a huge honey fan. Pale yellow, no head, a bit sparkling. Nice.

On tap at Cumberland brew pub. Yellow with a medium white head. Aroma of honey, taste of honey and mild lemon. Very smooth and easy to drink. A malty consistency that had a semi-puckery finish. This was the first time I’ve ever tried meade so I have no basis for comparison, but I thought this one was pretty solid. I wish the honey beers that hardly taste like honey would taste a bit more like this one.

8 ounce draft at brewpub. Poured light and hazy orange/yellow color and looked more like a nice fruit drink than a beer - no head or lacing. The aroma was sweet, malty, basic, and its most beer-like quality. It was nauseating on my palate because of its excessive sweetness. Light bodied but sweetness created sickening drag on my palate. The flavor was sweet and fruity but had a powerful alcohol aftertaste that really went awful with the sweetness of the fruity flavors. No hops. Overall: If you like meads don’t listen to me. I’m not a mead man. This beer wasn’t for me.

Draft at the brewpub. Poured a slightly hazy golden color. Head was thin, bubbly, and fizzled out almost immediately. Smelled of alcohol, apple cider, and funk. Flavor was similar. It reminded me of a combination of apple cider and sake. Strange and not that enjoyable.

Draught at the brewpub. Pours golden yellow with thin white head. The aroma is lemony and acidic, with a few grassy floral tones and a subdued sweetness. The flavor is grass and lemons. There’s some weird stale malt taste going on there, too, not sure from what (is this a braggot?). The honey tones are pretty weak, and really only come through with any definition when I take a big gulp. Very disappointing.