Rogue Farms 19 Original Colonies Mead

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Mead
Newport, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter, Stem glass

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This smells good and that’s about it. A thin yellow. The flavor is a bit funky at first and not that much honey. A sour watery finish. Perhaps the worst mead I’ve had.

On tap. Terrible. Worst thing I’ve ever drank. Pours like dirty water. Translucent and just slightly more yellow/brown than tap water. Aroma is non-existent. Taste is just awful. Toothpaste, medicinal, throat spray, chewing tobacco, and vomit. Please never make this again.

Rogue what are you doing? This is not good. Pours light. Aroma of white grape juice you get as a kid, but you hate, but for some reason it’s always there. Flavor has some bad weird taste to it. Light texture. I don’t know how things like this get released to the public. Do test batches before putting crap like this out.

Bomber from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours like a cider - lightly gold and a very transient white head. Aroma is sort of honey flower. Light body. Flavor is fairly thin - not your typical syrupy mead. It’s mildly honey with touches of jasmin. For me it’s not sweet - bitter in a way rather different from most beers. Maybe it’s the tea. Quite different.

From tap at Keg Cowboy. Pours a watery yellow color with thin white head. Aroma was honey, grapes and medicine. Taste followed with a dryness to it and a floral aftertaste. Strange mead.

Draft. Pours a pale yellow with no head. Aroma of. Medicated cough srops and liggt honey. Taste is mostly medicine with a little jasmin. Light bodied with a thin texture. Flat carbonation but a decently lobg finish. Interesting beer, nad mead.

Bottle that I took to jtclockwork’s place for a tasting, because if I have to suffer, so should everyone else. Pours a clear straw gold with a thin white head. Smells like toothpaste, Bazooka gum, and Ben-Gay. Interesting aromas, all smells I don’t dislike, but they seems horribly out of place on a mead. Medium bodied, sweet honey, weird off flavors. Sweet honey and more minty toothpaste. Honestly not the worst thing of the day, but I couldn’t ever see myself willing drinking this again.

Bottle shared by Jay at tasting at my house. Pours clear yellow gold. Nose of vanilla, wax paper honey and tooth paste. Taste is mostly flavorless vanilla with hint of honey wax. Light to medium body.

Bottle. Pours clear yellow with a medium white head. Aroma of honey, flowers and white wine. Watery honey flavor with some floral character and a watery finish.

The aroma is medicinal and herbal with honey, candy, and leaves. The appearance is pinkish gold with a small head. The taste is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall this is really disappointing.