4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Great mead. Not a beer by any stretch, but entertaining flavour, good ginger addition and a smooth taste.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at fermentation. Pale gold pour and obviously no head. Nose of honey, booze and ginger. Syrupy sweet taste with ginger zing and some booze. Not too bad.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
sample at home... golden amber ... no head ... soft sweet honey... light spice nose ... over sweet honey ... soft sweet spice ... light alcochl .... hige honey tones
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 700ml. ceramic @ DOT-E Christmas Party.
Clear light orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy honey. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, honey, nectar, spicy honey. Body is medium, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20111118]
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ Salling, Århus. Pours clear golden. Aroma of honey, green apples, spices. Taste is honey, apples, flowers, spices, alcohol. Full bodied, oily mouthfeel, lasting sweet honey finish. 100911
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
If you’re like me, your idea of mead is a bunch of guys in Viking helmets gulping down tankards of the stuff. I found out the hard way that’s not the best idea--it’s kind of like trying to choke down a bottle of Marshmallow Fluff all at once.
If try sipping this mead instead of gulping, it’s actually quite nice. The ginger and hops add a nice flavor to what might otherwise be an overpowering sweetness and alcohol, and the taste and finish is very smooth with a nice mouthfeel.
I’ve tried a few meads since and this is still my favorite. One downside, though--this is very pricy.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Ceramic bottle. Pours golden. The aroma is sweet honey, fruit and light spices. The flavour is sweet honey, alcoholic and light spicy. Long honey like finish. Very traditional mead.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
glass @ redlight redlight. Honey with ginger and caraway notes with rose. Pours honey gold almost amber. Rich honey notes with cognac notes hints of ginger with some caraway notes and alcohol, very smooth though with a sticky sweet finish. Pretty good.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Pours a clear golden mead with no head. The aroma is alcohol, medicin and sweetness. The flavor is alcohol and sweetness. The palate is dry with alcoholwarmth. Overall a mead below average, burns in the throat.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Ceramic bottle, 19%. Sweet honey aroma, some raisin. Hazy amber colour. The flavour is sweet with some raisin, vinous note.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 10/20
I just don’t get meads, what beers do you know that are near 20%? From a bottle at Vintage Estates, such a nice place; 6 - 2oz samples of mead for $15, tax included. Looks like pale lager. Sweet honey flavors but laid back compared to klapojster. Oily and winelike of course. Smell is rather like leather and light. Cannot taste advertised hops.
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