2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap at Barley's Taproom in Asheville, NC. The overwhelming flavor of chai spices is actually quite delicious on top of still-discernible honey, but it's very thin -- not at all syrupy. Actually pretty nice to tipple on a hot spring day, but not necessarily the sign of a masterful mead.
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3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle courtesy of dkachur on 01/15/2011 at the 13th Richmond Gathering. Slighty hazy golden amber body with no head. Big cinnamon, light nutmeg and spice aroma with a honey background. Big cinnamon and spice flavor with a honey background. Medium body with moderately low carbonation.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Thanks Richmond crew! transparent gold, no head. Overly spiced Cinnamon, lightly stinging, also a bit floral and hot. Flavor is similar, not as floral but sill over spiced, light honey. Thinness doesn’t help. I prefer when ciders and meads are soft, but this isn’t.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at 13th Richmond Gathering, courtesy of dkachur. Pours clear gold. Aroma is cookie, straw, clove, cinnamon, allspice, and loads of honey. Flavor is cookie, straw, cinnamon, clove, allspice, honey, alcohol, and more honey. A medium sweet texture with a lightly drying finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled at the Richmond Gather XIII. Wow. this is cinnnamen and spice and everything nice. ON TOP OF HONEY. Well done, but very spicy. Much more thin than I expected.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 7/20
Richmond 13th, thanks to dkahur. Pale yellow clear. Aroma is Christmas, pure potpourri. cinammon and allspice. Flavor matches, hot cinnammon fire balls. Not my baby.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Date: 1/15/2011 Source:Other Lots of cinnamon over moderate floral honey. Clear light golden. Very sweet floral honey with lots of cinnamon and spices. Finish is medium sweet and spicy.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
750 mL bottle from Whole Foods Market Fair Lakes and shared at the 13th Richmond Gathering. Pours a clear pale amber color. Aroma of overwhelming spices. Primarily cinnamon, allspice, a bit of citrus, and honey shows up to the party a it later. . The taste is also overwhelming spices. Cinnamon mostly. Almost hot. Very faint hints of honey and vanilla. Overpowered completely, as their other meads are. These guys need to learn to tone it back.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared by a friend. Pours a clear yellow color. Aroma is cinnamon, clove and a bit of orange. Cinnamon flavor with an orange peel tang and some clove in the finish.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Appearance: Pours out a clear body with only a subtle hint of orange-gold coloring to it.
Smell: There’s a bit of honey under there, but, for the most part, it’s a nose of spices with the cinnamon leading the pack, though each listed on the label is certainly discernible.
Taste: Modestly sweet subtle taste of honey then, BAM in comes those piquant spices. As with the nose, cinnamon from the blend is, for me, the most prominent. Hint of citrus fruitiness from the orange peel. Spicy-sweet finish.
Mouthfeel: Relatively light-bodied, a bit wine-like.
Drinkability: A pleasant mead! I’m diggin’ those spices.
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