Long Island Meadery Traditional Mead

Brewed by Long Island Meadery
Style: Mead
Holbrook, New York USA

Bottle. I dont have much to compare this to but i can say this was a very honey sweet vinous body. Next to Jadwiga i thought this was lighter and less intense with a lighter alcohol in the finish, but still something noteworthy. Good stuff.

750mL bottle, courtesy of beastiefan2k. Thanks, Eugene! Pours a clear, light straw color; headless. Loads of honey, vanilla, and slightly oily, dense floral notes; gorgeous nose. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lots of honey, vanilla, and intense, tempered sweetness upfront; not intensely heavy bodied, but really nice: generous amounts of mouthcoating, sweet honey and vanilla-tinged goodness; really nice mead; lightly spicing. Lengthy finish: honey, vanilla, lots of sweetness and spice.

Somehow a bottle of this ended up at my house. I’m pretty damn psyched it did! Pours still clear/yellow with a nice neck. Smells of honey, alcohol (but welcoming, not overly fusel), some welcoming wildflower hints and some peppery splashes. Taste is a well balanced sweet mead with lots of meadow like hints to offer. A very interesting mead and one of the first I’ve had that is not high octane that is enjoyable and complex.

Well, this is the first mead that I will rate (not including Ramapo Valley Passover beer), I am not as sure about this as beer but I will give it a chance. I have tried a few different meads, inlcuding many hombrews and the Apis Jadwiga. This is a much lighter mead, very easy to drink. I would compare this to an ice wine and extremely tasty without overdoing it.

At the LI Beer Festival. I’ve had several meads and I must say this one is up near the top. Great floral aroma. Sweet, but not excessively so. I wish I had an opportunity to get back to their table and try some of their other meads. This is really excellent stuff.

Magnificent! A mead tour-de-force. If this is representative of the stuff produced by the L.I. Meadery, count me as a fan. Light, sweet, very pale in color, which belies its concentrated honeyish flavor. Even better than the Slowianski mead I rated it alongside. The LI Meadery’s Traditional Mead is so easy-drinking and mild, you could easily get carried away. I’d be very interested to see what a little aging in barrels might do to its complexity and character. The only way to make this better (and to be able to charge more for it) is to oak-barrel age it to impart some needed hints of sourness, fruit (if sherry casks were used) or even the intangibles such as the band-aid (musty) aroma/flavor found in the greatest mead of them all, Apis Jadwiga. I wholeheartedly recommend this mead - it would be a real hit at a party as it’s eminently drinkable.