Green River Ambrosia Reviews

AdamChandler	3.5 Green River Liquid Sunshine 375ML bottle from AFH. light gold color. flat obviously. Thisis possibly the most honey aroma I've had in a mead. it smells like raw honeycomb. incredibly tempting to just dig right in. flavor..."watery honey"? it's thin fo ra mead, it has a floral earthy finish. tasty but very one-dimensional. Saturday, April 13, 2019
Chalumeaux	3.4 Green River Liquid Sunshine Poured from bottle thanks AFH clear orange. Aroma is honey, apples, floral notes. Nice mouthfeel, warming, boozy. Tuesday, April 2, 2019
AirForceHops	3.1 Green River Liquid Sunshine Bottle, purchased at Liquor Juncture. Flavor is similar to apple juice, honey, sweet for sure. Warmth is present after the finish. Booze is present. Saturday, March 30, 2019
djd07	3.2 Green River Oaxacan Poured at Shelton Festival, hazy yellow gold with no head. The aroma is honey, booze, nuts. Slick body, almond, honey, boozy finish, good. Friday, August 10, 2018
djd07	3.2 Green River Bourbon Barrel Cyzer Poured at Shelton Festival, golden with no head. The aroma is honey, fruity, oak, whiskey. Slick body, similar flavors to nose, very boozy, good. Friday, August 10, 2018
djd07	3.7 Green River Liquid Sunshine Poured at Shelton Festival, clear orange with no head. The aroma is honey, booze, floral. Slick body, strong honey, nice sweetness, boozy, very good. Friday, August 10, 2018
djd07	3.7 Green River Winter Warmer Mead Poured at Shelton Festival, clear yellow gold no head. The aroma is spice, nutmeg and cinnamon . Thin body, strong honey, spice, boozy, very nice. Friday, August 10, 2018
djd07	3.8 Green River Black Currant Blueberry Poured at Shelton Festival, dark purple no head. The aroma is berry and honey. Similar flavors to nose, nice sweetness, very good. Friday, August 10, 2018
j12601	2.5 Green River Bourbon Barrel Cyzer Bottle at James’ cellar cleaning tasting. Pours a clear gold. Apples, a bit of nailpolish remover. Medium bodied, unpleasant solvent and some weird chemical heat. Hot plastic. Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Jow	3 Green River Bourbon Barrel Cyzer I’m a bit nicer a rater than my tasting counterparts. Light gold. Tastes of sweet vanilla bourbon honey. Palate doesn’t really sing in anyway but it’s still a tasty enough desert type of beverage. Tuesday, April 5, 2016
jtclockwork	2.5 Green River Bourbon Barrel Cyzer Bottle - pours yellow - nose/taste of vanilla, honey, apple and super light bourbon - light/medium body Sunday, April 3, 2016
vtafro	1.8 Green River Bourbon Barrel Cyzer Bottle. Light yellow still pour. Mild honey aromas, not much else. Bourbon maybe, vanilla, honey Flavors. Sunday, April 3, 2016
BeersGoodnStuf	3 Green River Apple Cyzer Friday, May 9, 2014
BroSpud	3.8 Green River Winter Warmer Mead Sampled at Julios New England Craft Beer Fest. One of several Ambrosias tasted and probably the best. I guess I like mead, who knew? Monday, November 11, 2013
MicroGrog	4 Green River Liquid Sunshine Bottle from the cellar. Original batch. I think I was dissuaded from opening this after my experiences with their other stuff. A few years in the hole seems to have done it some good though. Wet, moldy cork, nearly falls in. Decanted best I could. Poured into an Ommegang anniversary glass. Clear, lemon lime body. Seems to have developed some carbonation. Interesting candied pineapple & table grape scent. Tastes is of sweet green grapes, apple wine, & mild wax. Lavender-ish. Light fizz is a pleasant surprise. A hair thinner then syrupy. Yeasty finish. A tasty experiment. Thanks for all those replacement bottles Garth.:) Thursday, September 26, 2013
Ernesto987	3.7 Green River Apple Cyzer part of the great mead tasting at Julio’s. Great apple flavors here, basically a tasty cross between a cider and a mead. Hey’s its my first one and I don’t know anything about these. TASTY. Sunday, February 3, 2013
Ernesto987	3.6 Green River Bourbon Barrel Cyzer tasting at the great meadfest at Julios, this one was good. Im not sure im I’m a fan of bourbon barrel aging meads. Tasted like a light delicate mead got a bourbon treatment. The base mead is amazing however. Sunday, February 3, 2013
Ernesto987	3.7 Green River Winter Warmer Mead Sample at the Julios great mead fest. Tons of spices going on, very interesting, like Indian food, with cardemom leading. Sunday, February 3, 2013
Ernesto987	3.8 Green River Chamomile At meadfest, fantasic mead, huge flower flavors, really awesome honey and herb flavors, Saturday, February 2, 2013
Ernesto987	3.7 Green River Liquid Sunshine Sample at meadfest, clean and delicious very natural honey flavors, this meadery is great Saturday, February 2, 2013
MicroGrog	3.1 Green River Aphrodisia Old bottle I passed around at a few tastings but never opened. $12 at Liquor World in Cambridge. Poured into a baby Duvel tulip. Pretty amber orange with a pink hue. Legs melt away pretty quickly. This thing absolutely fumes ginger, roses, & clay. Smells nice, but too powerful & concentrated. Taste is mostly macerated ginger & mild vanilla. Alcohol is a bit boozy, & the body is thinner then I expected. Slight rindy citrus burn. Vanilla & some menthol linger on the finish nicely. Only a 375, but I should of called in help. :) Friday, June 8, 2012
cakanator	3.8 Green River Aphrodisia 12oz bottle or so. I was told not to have this alone, yet when everyone else balked I had it. Very nice caramel golden color. Aromas are sweet yet spicy, earth and grit, yet elegant. Palate is crazy with a medicinal spice that moves into a creamy vanilla, then finishes so smooth. Booziness is non-existent. Glad to have tried, may try again in the future. Tuesday, December 6, 2011
yespr	3.1 Green River Chamomile From bottle at Sunset Grill. Pours hazy orange with no head. Aroma is spiced chamomile and herbal. Herbal, chamomile tea and spiced into a dry flavoured finish. Monday, October 24, 2011
MicroGrog	1.5 Green River Cassis Purchased two bottles of this from the same store in Cambridge, Mass a couple months apart. Sampled in the Spring & Summer of this past year(2010). $18 a pop. Deteriorated cork on the first bottle, soaked cork on the second. Poured into a Chivas glass. Deep, nearly black grape juice, with purple highlights. Thick port-like appearance to consistency. Legs are long, thin, & abundant. Smell is a mix of concord grape skins & raisins, along with an acidic twang & a thin stream of simple syrup. A bit of vinegar too. -Both bottles ended up having a sour note to them(one full-on, the other just barely wincing), & while the taste wasn’t at all as advertised, & I didn’t rate them as such, the unintended byproduct smelled quite lovely.- Taste is a total mess of Manischewitz, gueuze & unrecognizables. One bottle wincingly sour, the other only half gone but with ugly plastic phenols & just some remnants of honey wine. I don’t think I’ll be trying anything else from these guys unless it’s at a bar where I can get an automatic refund. Monday, January 3, 2011
MicroGrog	3 Green River Chamomile Notes from 5/10. Surprisingly untainted bottle purchased sometime late last year in Cambridge, Mass. A bright, mischievous yellowed liquid brazenly poured into a generic snifter. Smell is of chamomile tea with a touch of powdered ginger & a splash of white wine. Nothing drastic, but indeed soothing. Subtly sweet, like breathing in those mulled tea vapors through your mouth. The white wine aspect is dryer & fuller, like chardonnay this time, minus the butter & most of the wood. Honey isn’t very vocal in this one, but at least retains some of it’s body. Very simple profile, but no where close to as offensive as the other bottles I’ve had from this meadery. The flavor is fresh & mellow. Not bland, but not more then just quaint & soothing as chamomile is. The abv didn’t make a scene & melded just right I think. I would of preferred it with maybe more herbs, or with a bolder honey varietal, but it is decent middle of the road mead as is. Monday, January 3, 2011
beerbill	3.4 Green River Liquid Sunshine 750 ml bottle shared with my wife. Pours a slightly hazed gold with no head. This is a still mead. Subsequent pourings were more hazed; I didn’t realize there was some minor sediment in the bottle. Pleasant aroma of honey that has a light floral scent and a bit of earthiness to it as well. The flavor follows the aroma and is lightly floral and again also has a bit of earthiness to it. Lightly sweet. Medium bodied. This is a nice, straight-forward mead. Saturday, December 11, 2010
MicroGrog	3.5 Green River Summer Sparkler Thanks to Garth at GRA for helping me list this one. :) Bottle sampled & shared at The Sierra Grille in Northampton Mass., while munching on a bunch of small plates. Awesome place that I need to revisit. A new meadery, recommended by the bartender in between sampling some Redstone on tap, we get 5-6 ounces in a wine glass & a little conversation thrown in for free. Ginger ale consistency, but a little brighter in color. The daylight creeping into the room probably threw my impression of a bit. Smell was very winey, with white grapes, slight apple, hay, & yeast. Scent suffers a bit from a cork taint/stuffiness sort of impression. Still quite better then what I had been having prior. Taste was more then a bit different from what I was expecting. My experience in mead at the time of these notes was pretty much restricted to the super sweet Polish stuff, low abv melomels & some basic locals. So this really got my attention. First & really only thing that came to mind sampling, was a comparison to Prosecco, maybe just topped off with a dash of lemon Stoli. Just so much like Italian sparkling wine, with lots of grape skins & stems & bitter grass. Tannins & overall earthiness didn’t play much into it. Initial caramelized/meady feel, but it quickly gets overrun with carbonation(though not quite drying out on the finish). Agitated/citric alcohol burn on the follow-through, but I should of expected that. After enjoying my second pour as much as the first, I inquired about purchasing a little to take home. I was told they couldn’t sell me any, as the bottles needed to stay below 50f, or else they would explode. A side-effect of bottling too early. A shame. Tuesday, August 18, 2009
MicroGrog	1.8 Green River Dry Reserve Edit: Possibly bad bottle replaced by Garth from Green River without any bloodshed. :) Nice PR, suspect meads. Intact wax & a darkened cork. Same bright yellow color, smell is of delicate flowers & subtly sweet Riesling wine. Taste is similarly lemon-y, but with much more restraint. Herbal & grapey. Sweet like Bunratty Irish Mead, but not quite as much. Body is still much thinner then expected(tainted again, or is the recipe excessively watered down & fortified?). Bitterness is barely there on the finish, but unfortunately I can still sense some disagreeable cork taint. Better bottle, but the intended product still doesn’t seem to be reaching the consumer as of yet. I hear many more styles are in the works, but I am of course, hesitant. -------------------------Old Review Score: 1.2---------------------------- Bottle shared at BCTC09. Thick, crumbly yellow wax. What was a bright yellow bottle actually ended up being the real color of the mead. Crumbling mushroom cork that managed to stay together, but I couldn’t replug the bottle with(since almost no one tried it). A day later at home & all unpacked, I’m finishing off all these meads that even the tickers dare not sample. Poured into my newly acquired baby Duvel glass. A thin bed of yeast left sitting in the bottle. A pop to the cork, & a slight ring of foam as it pours it. I don’t remember that happening on Saturday. Hmmm... no sulfites it says. Nice. Body the color & clarity of still Berliner Weiss with a touch of lemon syrup. Smell is just as uninviting as I remember. Rose water, Play-Doh, new sneakers, taffy sweetness, & rot. Taste upfront is a touch of lemon & leafy bitterness, followed by horrid plastic/waxy ugliness. Terribly medicinal. Desperate for a solution, I also try it warm & ice cold. Both fare better. Being warm turns it citrusly bitter, & even carries a TheraFlu-like scent to it. Cold may be the best, as not only is it thinner, but it becomes very much like like cheap white wine, which I can tolerate. Still smells rough though. A big squirt of lemon sadly makes it chuggable. $14 750 sandblasted glass bottle. I hate to start a new listing off with a bad review, as future words tend to follow similar trends. I hope the rest of the current lineup(& future bottlings) hold up a whole lot better. Update: After emailing Green River, It is possible that I did come across a faulty bottle. They’re helping me remedy that. :) Friday, August 7, 2009