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Honey Sun Iqhilika (Mead) - Herbal

Honey Sun Iqhilika (Mead) - Herbal

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A Mead brewed by
Makana Meadery

Grahamstown, South Africa

bottled
common

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213.63/5.03.57/5.013%86.7 Snifter P  Stats

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.

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 Tmoney99 (3429), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20

May 9, 2008  
Bottle. Poured clear golden color with good legs. Heavy floral, tea and alcohol aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture. Medium balanced spicy flavor with a medium to heavy sweet spicy finish of moderate to long duration. Complex standout mead.

 BlackDonald (724), On a beer trip all over the USA, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
May 13, 2008  
This was also quite delicious. A bit of an herbal astrigency in the nose, and some heat from the alcohol. not as sweet as some of the others, more off dry and bittersweet, but very nice lignering spices throughout, still quite delightful and great with thai food.


 willblake (1919), Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Apr 28, 2008  
20070303 750ml bottle. Oh, it’s this. I still have this bottle in the closet and it’s got a good 4oz of mead in it. Sweet, spicy, full bodied, and rich. Like a nice, spicy, herbal tea with herby, floral honey. Medium alcoholic heat. Thanks Jim (I think)!


 hotstuff (3019), Indiana, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Mar 14, 2008  
Bottle that shows 12%ABV at bdigi66’s. Transparent and a clear hue. Nose was honey, sweet, cinammon, some spice notes, and alcohol. Flavor was sweet, honey, cinammon, tart, and finishes dry. Tingly, dry mouthfeel and medium body. Different tasting from other meads that I have rated, better meads to be had IMO, and not one that I liked enough to want to have again.


 jsquire (1848), St. Marys, Ohio, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Feb 1, 2008  
This is better than Iqhilika’s hot mead. This is a still liquid, with a yellow color that reminded me of a urine sample. The nose has lots of raw honey, with some perfume and cinnimon heat that was not necessarily pleasant. I got the requisite honey sweetness, with flowers, cinnimon heat, some citrus and wet wood in the taste. Really not my kind of mead. Thanks to thedm and Hotstuff for sharing.




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