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Honey Sun Iqhilika (Mead) - Herbal

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8684
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Brewed by Makana Meadery
Style: Mead
Grahamstown, South Africa
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RATINGS: 46   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.35   EST. CALORIES: 390   ABV: 13%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Our prize-winning mead - Gold medal award winner in the Speciality Category at the 2006 International Mead Festival in Boulder, Colorado. A semi sweet mead (approx 20g/l residual sugar) with rooibos, honeybush tea, cinnamon and apple. The herbs provide a smooth structure to the mead with a lingering honey aftertaste. Ideally served at 12-14 degrees Celsius, in a large red wine glass to allow development of the nose. A good stand alone sundowner, a well matched partner to spicy dishes and stir fries, game and poultry and a companion to desserts and coffees.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
arone12 (703) - Maryland, USA - JAN 29, 2012
Had this one on tap at max’s. Haven’t had many meads before and have never rated one. This one was an orange color. Fairly sweet. Almost too sweet for my liking. i would have liked to drink a little less of this. Alcohol was not present however which is quite impressive for being 13 percent.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Christian (8015) - Odense, DENMARK - OCT 23, 2011
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of honey and raisin with a herbal touch. Raisin sweet flavour with some herbal notes

4.5
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 18/20
onceblind (1334) - Denver, Colorado, USA - OCT 7, 2011
Clear brilliant gold. Smells of winter spices, like the Christmas section of a Hobby Lobby. Sweet incence, rose, cinnamon, some kind of Christmas nostalgia spice...lovely. Nice warm flavor with cinnamon, Christmas spices, spruce, Christmas candle wax...like drinking a Christmas decoration isle.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
anders37 (9280) - Malmö, SWEDEN - OCT 7, 2011
Bottle @ chriso. Pours a clear yellow color with no head. Has a sweetish spicy weak herbal honey aroma. Sweetish spicy honey flavor. Has a sweetish spicy herbal honey finish.

3.7
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
Miksu (3887) - Jyväskylä, FINLAND - AUG 27, 2011
Bottle at Chris O’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2011. Golden color. Sweet tart honey with cinnamon, heather, roiboos and anise. Taste is dryer and more tart. Nice exotic mead.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
Dedollewaitor (9251) - Odense, DENMARK - AUG 24, 2011
Bottle @ Chris O’s. Thanks guys. Pours golden with no head. Honey, acetone, mould, alcohol and herbs. Heavy.

3.2
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
FatPhil (5964) - Tallinn, ESTONIA - AUG 16, 2011
500ml bottle (ChrisO’s pre-GBBF2011 "Donkey Dork Lord" shindig)
Lovely blossomy aroma, and of course honey backing that up. Again glassy and slick like the fig one. However, in the mouth this is simpler. It’s tasty and lively and fun, but too focused on the herbs and spices in a way that detracts from the honey rather than complementing it. The fig one in contrast had a synergy between the fruit and the honey. Still nice though.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Theis (8345) - Frederiksberg, DENMARK - AUG 14, 2011
Bottle at ChrisO & Ruth’s - Thanks. Clear golden - white head. Honey, herbal, flowery, sharpness, alcoholic, berries, raisins, vineous, gammel dansk herbal.


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