Lurgashall English / Celtic / Christmas Mead

Brewed by Lurgashall Mead
Style: Mead
Lurgashall, England

[At The Evening Star, Brighton] A light yellow mead with no head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of honey and lesser notes of flowers - and so is the flavor.

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fiulijn. Comes as "Lurgashall English Honey Mead". Pours a pale golden. Rather refined and somewhat perfumy honey aroma. Medium body, unclean and cardboardish with an underlying flowery honey note. 210309

Bottled at Akkurat, Stockholm. Pale straw colour. Evident honey pastille aroma and flavour. Sweet and soothing, mildly herba with a touch of menthe. Warmng, but well sweet for me.

50 cL clear bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with no head. Herbal, light chemical towards glue aroma. Sweet, honey and herbal from back of the nose. Sticking sweet actually with a nice honey herbal note coming through. Mild spiced into the far finish.

Bottle 50cl.
Clear light to medium yellow color with virtually none head. Aroma is artificial honey, perfumed honey. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20090321]

Bottle, 12.5% as Lurgashall English Honey Mead. Good sweet honey aroma, hint of wax. Very pale yellow colour. The flavour is rather sweet, there is a little rubbery feel to it. Mellow finish, but with a little peppery alcohol.

Name: Christmas Mead
Date: 10/22/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ziggy’s, Chattanooga

dark yellow with a slight chill haze, sweet spicey honey aroma with a touch of alcohol, sweet flavor, nice spices,
-------- /> Name: Christmas Mead
Date: 10/22/2005
Score: ii to iii
Words: mulled

the mulling mutes the sweetness in the aroma and brings out the spices, much more complex with lots of spiced flavor, only a hint of sweetness, heat thins the body,
-------- /> Name: Christmas Mead
Date: 07/17/2007
Mode: same bottle opened 10/2005

clear gold, nice legs, sweet honey aroma with only a hint of the prior alcohol, nice sweet honey flavor, light spices,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

<i>Bottle from International House of Cheese, Ludgate Hill, London</i>
Pale color. It has a very strong aroma of flowers, more than honey. Sweet, not syrupy, with flower flavor and some honey. I like sweet drinks, but this Mead is not impressive.