4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle @ [ Tasting by fiulijn ].
Clear medium golden yelloe amber colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy honey, sweet honey, alcohol, wine notes. Flavour is heavy sweet and light light acidic with a long duration, honey sweet, medium flavor is light tart but initial and finish flavor is just sweet, wood - grape notes, finish is almost marple syrup. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat. [20110926]
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Ceramic bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of fiulijn. Clear amber golden. Sweet honey and Sherry in the nose. Very full-bodied, extremely intense and sticky honey with plenty of Sherry and burned caramel. Lots of flower notes and warming alcohol in the finish. Candy in a bottle! 050211
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at fiulijn.
Clear amber coloured with no head.
Sweet aroma of honey and caramel with notes of spices.
Sweet flavour of honey and caramel with notes of spices and propolis.
Sweet and warming alcoholic finish,
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. A pale golden mead. The aroma has notes of spices, alcohol, and honey. The flavor is sweet with notes of honey and alcohol, leading to a sweet finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
75 cL ceramic bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours orange with no head. Dry and herbal honey aroma. Sweet and honey herbal flavoured. Slight sugarish note. Sweet and fruity finish. Lingering sweet, herbal and sugarish.
2.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Huge honey, sweet aroma, perhaps some herbs. Taste quite sweet, more sugar than honey. Hazy yellow/orange body.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
750ml bottle (?, Warsaw)
Hazy honey colour, still. Sweet honey aroma, alcohol, some glue, some rubber, light herbs, apple. Sticky palate. Very sweet taste, quite a floral honey, some sour green apple juice. Quite pleasant, but just too sticky compared to other mjods. Finish is a touch mushroomy, but very sugary too. Pleasant, but doesn’t have the crispness that Apis poltorak has, for example. Side by side with a TIM trojniak, this failed to shine.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUL 26, 2011
Measured Final Gravity: 1099
It pours a hazy hamber color. Sweet aroma, alcoholic, with honey and apple juice, Calvados; liquor-like. Very sweet flavor, syrupy, with a mix of honey and apricot marmalade. Even sweeter and marmalade-like to the end; the alcohol is beautifully hidden. Not complex, but powerful, balanced and extremely enjoyable (if you have a sweet tooth).
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Nice dark honey color with some reddish haze. Aroma is a wonderful sweet bouquet of wildflower honey, burnt sugar, and some mild alcohol. Flavor has some wildflower and sage honey that is very sweet mixed with some gentle berry and heavy sugar. Nice feel - Very, very good but this one doesn’t quite match the complexity of their Koronny Dwojniak nor Apis’ Poltorak. Heavy & sweet are prerequisites with a good Poltorak, but this one needs more complexity to be truly great. Still, its hard to be picky when a mead is this good.
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