Golden Coast Mead Reviews

blipp	3.1 Golden Coast Bananas At Dawn Draft. Pours gold with a white head. A little bit of a boozy base, mild cinnamon, and very low residual sweetness. This feels a little young. Sunday, October 14, 2018
blipp	3.4 Golden Coast Laughing Oak Draft at the Little Italy Farmers Market. Pours light gold. Sweet honey and vanilla, medium dry, and a clean finish with a touch of honey still poking through and mild lingering oaky notes.. Pretty good. Sunday, October 14, 2018
blipp	3.5 Golden Coast Global Mirth: Huajillo Draft at Little Italy Farmers Market. Pours light gold with a few quickly disputing bubbles. Medium dry, a touch of honey sweetness, and a crisp and sparkling finish. Clean finish without a ton of residual sweetness. Solid. Sunday, October 14, 2018
j12601	3.6 Golden Coast Sour Orange Blossom Bottle. Pours a lightly hazed gold with a thin sized white head. Fruit on the nose,esters and yeast. Fruit soft yeast. Long musk. Lingering fruit. Light orange and a bit of sweetness. Lingering warmth. Sunday, January 14, 2018
blipp	3.1 Golden Coast Something Something Sour Mead Bottle. Pours kinda cloudy gold with a thin head. A little acidic, with mild sweetness, honey, and a tart finish. Not bad. Friday, December 22, 2017
blipp	3.5 Golden Coast Spiced Clover Bottle. Pours golden amber with a thin head. Baking spices and vanilla, mild honey sweetness, and a sweet finish. Pretty good. Friday, December 22, 2017
blipp	3.4 Golden Coast Hopped Honey Bottle. Pours gold with a thin head. Kinda fruity with mild bitterness, a little honey sweetness, and mild lingering sweetness. Pretty good. Friday, December 22, 2017
blipp	3.3 Golden Coast Savage Bois Bottle. Pours amber with no head. Relatively dry and a little oaky, with mild honey in the finish. Pretty good. Friday, December 22, 2017
BuckeyeBoy	1 Golden Coast California Oak Mead On tap at barrel republic pours a crisp golden. Nose is very light honey with oak. Taste is no honey sweetness. This is so bad and this is the kind of stuff that gives mead a bad name. Sunday, November 5, 2017
jcompguy	4.5 Golden Coast Something Something Sour Mead I'm surprised so many people didn't like this one. I'm not much of a mead drinker but I love sour ales. I have a feeling everyone expected a tart mead, but this instead tastes more like a geuze or a tart champagne. They probably also poured all the yeast into the glass, which will negatively impact the flavor and appearance. If you don't like sours, you won't like this. If you do, you'll love it. Saturday, October 7, 2017
Jow	3.2 Golden Coast Orange Blossom Tap at Draught 55 as a freebie! Very light looking pour not all that different than sakes I just had. Nose is rich honey and orange. Tastes of oranges, florals, lemon, honey, candied sugar some grassy tones. Semi sweet and watery. Tuesday, April 4, 2017
blipp	3.3 Golden Coast Orange Blossom Bottle. Pours gold with a white head. Honey and some citric/floral notes, moderate sweetness, and a quick honey sweet finish. Pretty good. Wednesday, March 15, 2017
blipp	3.2 Golden Coast California Oak Mead Bottle. Pours gold with a white head. Dry and oaky, with lighter honey sweetness, and light flowery notes, followed by a relatively dry finish for a mead. Decent. Wednesday, March 15, 2017
mcberko	2.8 Golden Coast Ginger Hibiscus On tap at Golden Coast, pours a hazy bright pinkish ruby red with a small pink-tinged white head. Aroma brings out aggressive ginger upfront, with subdued hibiscus, no honey notes. Flavour is quite spicy, with tons of fresh ginger skins upfront. Not really getting the hibiscus or any sweetness. A ginger bomb. Meh. Sunday, February 12, 2017
mcberko	2.9 Golden Coast Tiki On tap at Golden Coast, pours cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out tons of wildflower honey upfront, followed by the bitters, vanilla and pineapple. Flavour is quite different, with tons of the bitters leaving a boozy and astringent feel, and only subtle traces of the other adjuncts. Not very convinced by this. Fun stuff but not overly enjoyable. Sunday, February 12, 2017
mcberko	2.4 Golden Coast Hopped Honey On tap at Golden Coast, pours a hazy dull yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out strange stale hop characteristics, with no notice of the honey. Flavour is odd, with a stale herbal hop character, dry honey and biscuity notes. Seltzery quality on the finish, with the crisp carbonation. Not fussed about this one. Sunday, February 12, 2017
mcberko	2.7 Golden Coast Gruit On tap at Golden Coast, pours cloudy dull beige with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of heather and other earthy spices. Flavour is bone dry and extremely earthy and spicy. This is exactly as advertised, but there is little depth or honey presence. Not very intrigued by this. Sunday, February 12, 2017
mcberko	2.7 Golden Coast Spiced Clover On tap at Golden Coast, pours a hazy beige with a small white head. Aroma brings out a jumbled mix of spices, none of them really out front or discernible above others. Flavour is light-medium sweet, with a seltzery character and jumbled spices. Finishes with cinnamon. It’s okay. Sunday, February 12, 2017
mcberko	3.6 Golden Coast California Oak Mead On tap at Golden Coast, pours a clear beige with a small white head. Aroma brings out light oak and fairly low wildflower honey presence. Flavour is very oaky, with a wonderful oak barrel character and just a touch of honey. Very dry, with only the slightest hint of sweetness. Carbonation is aggressive but fitting. Loving the oak character here. Really good unusual mead. Sunday, February 12, 2017
mcberko	2.9 Golden Coast Orange Blossom On tap at Golden Coast, pours a hazy full blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of wild nectar notes and a very floral quality to the honey. Flavour is very dry, with floral notes and lots of honey nectar. Very low residual sweetness and no notice of the alcohol. Not overly complex, but pleasant enough. Sunday, February 12, 2017
snoworsummer	3.5 Golden Coast Orange Blossom Bottle from Julienne. Pours clear pale gold with almost no head. The bottle erupted with carbonation though, aged 1.5 years. Tastes like honey, cereal, sweet champagne, orange, floral, and sourdough. Light body and high carbonation. Smells like honey, cereal, dough, and candied orange. Monday, November 7, 2016
sonnycheeba	3.4 Golden Coast Orange Blossom Bottle; and it’s a gusher!! Pours somewhere between clear and milky pale yellow depending on how much of the yeast in bottle finds its way into the glass (thanks for the milky one snoworsummer!!). Aroma is honey, vanilla, light oak, faint citrus, and faint booze. Flavor matches the aroma and is decently sweet with it drying out with some woody notes at the finish. Unfortunately, the bottle refermentation that occurred and created the volcano when the bottle was opened also caused it to become overcarbonated to champagne levels of fizzy and makes it hard to discern the flavors underneath. Medium body. Monday, November 7, 2016
Ttheilen	3 Golden Coast Savage Bois Sunday, September 11, 2016
deborahtaggart	2 Golden Coast Something Something Sour Mead Sunday, July 24, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.6 Golden Coast Galley Grog Taster at the meadery. Bright clear amber pour. This one is darker than their other meads and more heavily oaked. Honey, moderate sweetness, wildflowers, fairly strong oak character, fruit, pear, and some vanilla. A heavier mead, but still tasty. Wednesday, July 20, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.2 Golden Coast Brett Mead Taster at the meadery. Nice clear bright gold pour. Sweet honey, butterscotch, a bit bretty, and muted florals. Unfortunately not much going on here compared to their other offerings. Wednesday, July 20, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.4 Golden Coast Sausage Boys Mead Taster at the meadery. Clear golden pour. No actual meat in this, just sausage spices. It definitely has a meaty flavor though, spiced, earthy, honey sweetness, floral, some herbs, cumin, and a little bit of a bite. Weird, but it works relatively well. Wednesday, July 20, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.7 Golden Coast Mirth in a Bottle Taster at the meadery. Slightly hazed golden amber pour. Some sweetness, but not too sweet. Fruity yeast character, pear, floral, nectarine, apple, wildflowers, orange, and notes of tropical fruit. Nice. Wednesday, July 20, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.7 Golden Coast Savage Bois Bottle at the tasting room. Clear light amber pour. Honey, floral, oak, orange, notes of vanilla, pear, fruit, mildly sweet, and wood. Nice. Monday, July 11, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.4 Golden Coast Sour Orange Blossom On tap at the brewery. Cloudy pale yellow, almost white color. Low to moderate carbonation. Floral honey, mostly dry, tart, green apple, and pear. Decent, but the honey nuances are muted out. Fairly refreshing. Friday, July 8, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.5 Golden Coast California Oak Mead On tap at the tasting room. Clear golden light amber color. Floral, pear, honey sweetness, oak, and notes of vanilla. Fairly good mead. Wednesday, July 6, 2016
JohnnyJ	3.6 Golden Coast Orange Blossom On tap at the meadery. Crystal clear pale gold pour, with light carbonation. Citrusy, floral, light honey sweetness, pear, mostly dry, and some alcohol. Lighter body, refreshing actually, nice honey flavor. Wednesday, July 6, 2016
j12601	2 Golden Coast Mirth in a Bottle Bottle at James’ cellar cleaning tasting. Pours a hazed gold. Weird ugly fruit on the nose before some honey comes in. Medium bodied, hot and boozy, warming alcohol, sweet and nearly cloying. A bit unpleasant. Tuesday, June 14, 2016
shortiecap	3 Golden Coast Sour Orange Blossom Sunday, April 17, 2016
Jow	2.6 Golden Coast Mirth in a Bottle Most people’s worst of the day during tasting and held off trying until near the end than gave in. Nose is blossoms and sweet honey. Tastes odd you get honey and plastic orange blossom, maybe some mineral quality. A little sweet finish. Not a great one. Tuesday, April 5, 2016
jtclockwork	2.2 Golden Coast Mirth in a Bottle Bottle - pours gold - nose/taste of honey, vanilla, woody florals, fake minerals - medium body Sunday, April 3, 2016
vtafro	1.5 Golden Coast Mirth in a Bottle Bottle. Clear yellow pour. Orange blossom, honey, sweet aromas. Flavors are off, honey, orange blossom. Sunday, April 3, 2016
snoworsummer	3.7 Golden Coast Savage Bois Bottle from the tasting room. Aged one year. Pours hazy light gold with a fizzy white head. Tastes like sweet sugary and dry floral honey, grassy, orange, and oak. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like orange and floral honey, light booze, grassy, and oak. Saturday, April 2, 2016
sonnycheeba	3.5 Golden Coast Savage Bois Bottle. Pours hazy straw yellow. Aroma is honey, citrus, oak,faint vanilla, and faint floral notes. Flavor is crisp and highly carbonated with some boozy honey notes, light sweetness notes, and a citrusy finish. Medium/full body. Saturday, April 2, 2016
jtclockwork	1.3 Golden Coast Something Something Sour Mead Bottle - pours dirty gold no head - nose/taste of 7up, sour soda, light honeycomb, sweet tarts, bile - medium body Saturday, March 26, 2016
ygtbsm94	3 Golden Coast Speakeasy Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Bacterial	4.2 Golden Coast Sour Orange Blossom Picked up a bottle at Whole Foods near Logan Square in DC. Chilled in my hotel room ice bucket, poured into a plastic cup - classy! I do not like the nose on this. There is something phenolic / acetone / off in it, and I could smell it right when I opened the bottle. Either my sense of smell has been attenuated or the off notes I was getting in the nose of this mead has faded after a few minutes. Getting more pineapple and citrus now. The mead pours hazy - odd, since nearly every other mead I have had has been clear. The mead is carbonated, though mildly so. Taste is fascinating. Citrus. Lactic acid tartness in the finish, but before you get there, there are some really nice floral orange honey notes. Thanks guys, now I need to make a sour mead. Wednesday, March 2, 2016
j12601	2.8 Golden Coast Something Something Sour Mead On tap at Gingerman after Comic Con. Pours a clear gold no head. Cider, funk, honey, diacetyl on the nose. Sweet tarts, citric acid candies, war heads, popcorn jelly beans, funk. Long sweet tarts with faint honey. Maybe tastes like Spree instead of Sweet Tarts. Not great. Saturday, January 16, 2016
rlgk	3.5 Golden Coast Mirth in a Bottle Tap at the tasting room in Oceanside, California. Very pale yellow color, no head. Huge honey aroma, orange blossom, almond notes, citrus notes. Some floral notes. Honey flavor, vinous, citrus, almond notes. Love the aroma. Sunday, November 8, 2015
rlgk	3.4 Golden Coast Pucker Punch Tap at the tasting room in Oceanside, California. Hazy pale golden color, no head. Sourish honey aroma, floral, caramel, citrus, some vinous notes. Kinda the same flavor. A bot hard to take in the mix between a sour beer and a mead. Bit still ok. Sunday, November 8, 2015
rlgk	3.8 Golden Coast Californa Oak Mead - Smoked Serrano Tap at the tasting room in Oceanside, California. Clear pale yellow with no head. Honey aroma, woody, fruity, peach, pepper notes, some grapes. Fruity honey flavor, woody, nice pepper spices, grapes, some floral notes. Really refreshing! Sunday, November 8, 2015
rlgk	3.6 Golden Coast California Oak Mead Tap at the tasting room in Oceanside, California. Clear pale golden/yellow color, no head. Honey aroma, floral, almond, woody notes, peach, tangerines, some spices. Honey flavor, woody, caramel, almonds, floral notes. Quite well balanced with alcohol well hidden. Sunday, November 8, 2015
rlgk	3.3 Golden Coast Viking Tears Draught at Toronado, North Park, San Diego. Clear golden color, no head. Fruity vinous aroma, honey, citrus, grapes, some caramel. Fruity honey flavor, grapes, citrus, honey, grapes, vinous notes. A bit too vinous. Sunday, November 8, 2015
rlgk	3.8 Golden Coast Orange Blossom Tap at the tasting room in Oceanside, California. Very pale yellow color, no head. Honey aroma, oranges, tangerines, caramel notes. Honey flavor, some spices, orange blossom, floral, some almond. Really fresh with good fruits and well hidden alcohol. Sunday, November 8, 2015
AirForceHops	2.9 Golden Coast Something Something Sour Mead Bottle carried home from CA by Willrunforbeer. Slightly hazy yellow. Aroma is a bit odd, butter, beeswax and green apples, really strange. The flavor is nearly as strange... Movie butter popcorn? It’s not as sour, rather artificial strange notes. Some really off tartness that maybe shouldn’t be place in a mead. Cool idea I guess? Saturday, October 31, 2015