Campbell's Gold Honey Farm & Meadery Reviews

pictoman	3.7 Campbell's Gold Melomel Elderberry Poured from 375mL bottle (2010 limited edition). Clear amber brown with no head. Herbal honey with feint wood notes, some elderberry, decent. Sunday, November 26, 2023
beerplace	3.8 Campbell's Gold Melomel Elderberry 375ml shared with Phill and Alex (thx, for the bottle!) @ Ryan's. Appearance: copper with no head. Aroma: nicely sweet, some booze maybe, berries, a bit woody. Taste: quite sweet, honey, some tannins, berries. A bit thin maybe for 12%. Overall: pleasant. Sunday, November 26, 2023
DeanF	3.2 Campbell's Gold Melomel Crofter's Choice Kind of a medium brownish copper body. A grassy cranberry on the nose. some sweet honey. Taste is tart cranberry, lemongrass, soft honey notes. Ends smooth and a little bit juicy. I'd prefer more mead character but it's still a very nice sweet drink. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3.4 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Pear-A-Dize Light peach body. Sweet pear and cinnamon, very sugary aroma but still quite nice. Taste is a very sugary cinnamon, pear notes, soft honey maybe. Quite dessert-ish, would work well in that respect for an after dinner liqueur. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Currant Trends Light gold colour. Nice sweet currant, a bit of honey, just hints of marzipan that work really well. Taste is nice currant, soft woody honey, ending a little thin and a bit boozy. A little janky, but okay. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Elderberry Medium red body. Nice sweet berry aroma, more sugary than expected, must be the honey. Taste is soft berry, vague woody honey, ends smooth with nice lingering sweetness. Okay but a little more boldness would work wonders. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3.2 Campbell's Gold Melomel Black Beauty Deep ruby purple body. Kind of a grassy black currant aroma, could be the honey tempering the sweetness. Taste is a narrow black currant, soft honey notes, ending with a very nice sweetness but just a little too thin. Still quite enjoyable. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	2.8 Campbell's Gold Melomel Twilight Yellow Plum Lighter gold body. Soft sweet plum aroma, vague honey notes. Taste is very sugary plum, ending too boozy. Drinkable, but needs work. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3.7 Campbell's Gold Melomel Out of Eden Nice gold body. Deep honeyed apricot aroma, full and sweet in the right amounts. Taste is a thick apricot helped by strong honey, finishing smooth with lingering citrus and sweetness. Very well done, highly enjoyable. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3.4 Campbell's Gold Melomel Aphrodite Carbonated, pours a light yellow with some okay foam. Musty apple on the nose, maybe some soft honey sweetness, quite nice. Taste is honey forward, marzipan notes, quince sharpness to help round it out. A nice balance, both elements working well together. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3.8 Campbell's Gold Melomel Ruby Slippers Red Currant Sweet Medium tawny body and clear. Nice fruit and wood aroma gives it a very tawny port character, very nice. Taste is sweet honey, sugary currant, melded together to be very port-like. Excellent, very well balanced and enjoyable. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	2.7 Campbell's Gold Pyment Poet's Passion Slightly hazy medium gold body. Sweet honey and sweet grapes on the nose. Taste is bitter grapes, juiciness, and little mead character. Sweet for sure, with some bitterness and the two elements aren't working very well together. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	3.3 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Country Casual Light clear gold body. Nice apple on the nose, wood notes it seems. Taste is a nice apple with spice that helps round out the honey and apple sweetness. Soft, simple, but quite enjoyable. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	2.9 Campbell's Gold Mead Merry Mead Pale straw body. Slight floral aroma, soft honey sweetness. Taste is an earthy yet sweet honey, soft hessian, ending with lingering sweetness. A little one dimensional but okay. Saturday, January 29, 2022
DeanF	2.8 Campbell's Gold Mead Mistral Dry faint pale straw body. Seems like a lot of sweet apple on the nose, faint marzipan. Taste is plenty of sweet honey, vague marzipan, ending a little boozy. Okay, a little lacklustre. Saturday, January 29, 2022
fiulijn	3.3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Cheeky Cherry Synthetic cork, courtesy of Brian Amber colour, clear. Moderate sweetness, moderate cherry flavour. Simple finish. Pleasant. Friday, October 18, 2019
Ferris	3.1 Campbell's Gold Melomel Cheeky Cherry Light cherry and some light alcohol notes. Clear gold. Sweet, light cherry notes. Friday, October 18, 2019
fiery1	3.3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Cheeky Cherry 375ml bottle @ Alex's. Pours a copper orange colour with no head. Nose is rich honey, alcohol, and a hint of cherries. Flavour is mild sweet honey with a prominent boozy character is a subtle cherry aspect. Medium bodied, no carbonation, and a moderately high sweetness. It's OK, though I wish there was more of a cherry influence. Friday, October 18, 2019
fiery1	3.5 Campbell's Gold Melomel Plum 375ml bottle @ Matt's. Pours a clear copper colour with no head. Nose is fermented honey and prunes. Flavour is sweet fermented honey, a spicy boozy character, a touch of nutmeg, and sweet plums. Medium bodied, no carbonation, and a heavy sweetness with a decent boozy character. Friday, October 4, 2019
Ferris	2.5 Campbell's Gold Melomel Plum Acetone and soft honey, clear pale gold. Light sweetness, touch of candied plum and those higher alcohols return. Friday, October 4, 2019
mcberko	3.6 Campbell's Gold Melomel Plum 375mL bottle, pours a clear pale golden blonde. Aroma is intense on the plums, with plenty of honey, and some floral blossoms. Flavour is thick and syrupy, with lots of plum, sweet wildflower honey, and a little acidity. Thick, syrupy and nicely expressive on the plums. One of the better Campbell's products. Very good. Friday, October 4, 2019
Oakes	3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Plum Gold, no head. Sticky honeyish with a bit of plum. On the palate, it's some plum, a bit of honey, but it seems to have started a little added fermentation because it's got a touch of carbonation, and seems a bit wonky. Friday, October 4, 2019
Oakes	3.6 Campbell's Gold Melomel Out of Eden Has a fairly dark golden-brown colour. The aroma is rich, with a lot of caramelized sugar. The apricot, to the extent it was there in the first place, seems to be absent from the aroma now, after whatever number of years this spent in an half-empty bottle in the back of the fridge. Very sweet, like rich and yummy dark honeys but also sort of one-dimensional. Some alcoholic heat, and maybe a touch of wood, but mostly this is a rich sugar bomb, and again the fruit seems gone now. My sweet tooth does appreciate this. Saturday, May 11, 2019
fiulijn	3.3 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Country Casual Tasting at Matt's, synthetic cork bottle, vintage 2017 Pale color. The aroma is strong, it's flowery, wax, some alcohol, some apple. Moderately sweet, mild spices. Simple. Tuesday, May 15, 2018
fiery1	3.4 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Country Casual 375ml bottle @ Matt's. Pours a pale clear golden color with no head. Nose is of a boozy apple pie. Flavour is very much the same, ample apple pie spices with a boozy character. Friday, March 23, 2018
Oakes	3.6 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Country Casual Very pale straw. Very toasty honey on the nose. Very sweet, lots of toasty notes. The cinnamon is very strong, maybe a touch of nutmeg/clove, apples definitely. So straightforward version of what's been described. Friday, March 23, 2018
mcberko	3.3 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Country Casual 375mL bottle, pours a clear pale yellow. Nose is full of spices, especially cinnamon, with medium sweet apples, and honey. Flavour is like an apple pie, with heaps of cinnamon and apple sweetness, maybe a bit of nutmeg too. Simple, but fun and easily drinkable. Good stuff. Friday, March 23, 2018
Ferris	3.2 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Country Casual Otter - Lots of cinnamon and apple. Pale yellow. Sweet raw apple and tons of cinnamon and nutmeg. A bit over spiced. Friday, March 23, 2018
mcberko	3.3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Out of Eden 2015 vintage. 50mL dink bottle, pours a clear golden blonde. Aroma brings out the apricots and honey in good cohesion upfront, with light acidity and moderate sweetness. Flavour is medium sweet, with treacly honey upfront, very feint / subdued apricots, alcohol and a subtle tartness underneath. Quite a lot of heat, but it works well. Warming on the palate. Nice. Saturday, January 20, 2018
fiery1	3.5 Campbell's Gold Cysor 375ml bottle @ the office. 2015 vintage Pours a clear golden colour with no head. Nose is sweet honey and sour apples. Flavour is moderately sweet, some honey character and an odd lightly oily apple influence. It's smooth but weird. Friday, October 20, 2017
beerplace	2.8 Campbell's Gold Cysor 375ml bottle at Brian's office. Pours a clear golden with no head. Aroma is apples, dirty, veggie, honey, flowery. Taste is similar, slightly better. Meh. Friday, October 20, 2017
Oakes	3.2 Campbell's Gold Cysor Gold. Not leaving a lot of legs. Kind of a toasty honey character. Mostly sweet, with a nice toasty honey note. Just a little apple accent on the palate, and this also lends a little bit of juicy acidity to the finish. Definitely more mead than cyser, but the fruit works pretty well. The base mead isn't anything special, but it's all good. Friday, October 20, 2017
fiery1	3.4 Campbell's Gold Melomel Ruby Slippers Red Currant Sweet 375ml bottle @ Alex’x. Pours a light brownish pink colour. Nose is slight fruits, and wine vinegar. Flavour is somewhat sweet, slight acidity, currants present somewhat in the finish. The mouthfeel is rather light for a mead, and by no means thick. Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Oakes	3.9 Campbell's Gold Melomel Ruby Slippers Red Currant Sweet Pinkish colour. Aroma is mellow red currant. Nice honey note. Has a mellow happy fruity, honey. Good. Surprisingly good. Wednesday, October 19, 2016
lupulist	3.1 Campbell's Gold Melomel Ruby Slippers Red Currant Sweet Pours a pale colour. Aroma of wildflowers and cranberries. Tastes lightly tart, but with lots of sweet booziness to overcome that. Still, nice. Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Ferris	3.4 Campbell's Gold Melomel Ruby Slippers Red Currant Sweet Bottle - Cherry and strong honey notes. Clear pale copper. Sweet honey and some light current notes. Light bitterness and sweetness. Par for the course for them. Wednesday, October 19, 2016
mcberko	3.2 Campbell's Gold Melomel Ruby Slippers Red Currant Sweet 375mL bottle, pours a fairly hazy golden, no head. Aroma brings out the red currants upfront, with low sweetness for a mead. Flavour brings out the red currants upfront, with medium sweetness. As usual, not very complex and fairly thin, but it’s quite pleasant. Decent. Wednesday, October 19, 2016
SlovakSniper	3.4 Campbell's Gold Melomel Crofter's Choice (2015 Limited Edition. Bouteille en verre de 50 ml. 11%) La robe est celle d’un jus de canneberge un peu dilué. Le nez exhibe des parfums de ce petit fruit rouge et de vin de miel qui tente de montrer sa douceur. Le goût est acidulé par la canneberge et le miel joue le rôle du faire-valoir. La texture n’est pas grasse comme un hydromel sans additif. La finale sans sucre et fruitée montre également le signal d’un alcool qui peut devenir chaud. Saturday, September 17, 2016
SlovakSniper	2.8 Campbell's Gold Mead Mistral Dry (2016 Limited Edition. Bouteille en verre de 50 ml. 13.3%) L’alcool se détache quelque peu de ce nez de miel aux accents de vin blanc plutôt sec. En bouche, ce vin de miel démontre une très grande acidité. Petites bulles fines piquantes. La finale poivrée est assez persistante. Saturday, September 17, 2016
SlovakSniper	3.6 Campbell's Gold Mead Merry Mead (2015 Limited Edition. Bouteille en verre de 50 ml. 11.5%) Vanille, pâte d’amandes et miel crémeux sont des parfums qui ravissent mes papilles. Le goût est celui d’un vin de miel doux aux accents de fleurs. Le corps gras est fidèle au style. La finale montre action sèche provoqué par un alcool proprement ajusté. Saturday, September 17, 2016
fiery1	3.7 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Sambucus Flower Pours a nice light honey gold. Huge sweet honey nose. Sweet, but not too much. Flowery, even a touch grassy. Very nice Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Oakes	3.8 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Sambucus Flower Light gold colour. The aroma is rich honey, almost like leatherwood. It’s heavy, sticky, with that same rich, dense honey character. I quite like this. Tuesday, September 6, 2016
fiulijn	3.2 Campbell's Gold Cysor 2017-10-19, bottle from the brewery, synthetic cork, vintage 2015, 2 years old, 6-3-7-3-13=32 The aroma is a bit waxy, but also with mild fruity touch; mild sweetness, gentle fruit touch, the ABV is quite well hidden. Simple but nice. 2016-08-11, bottle at the meadery, 6-3-6-3-12=30 Pale blond color. A bit vinous, moderately sweet, balanced, with quite warm alcohol note. Pleasant, but nothing especial. Saturday, August 13, 2016
fiulijn	3.3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Twilight Yellow Plum Bottle at the meadery; 15% ABV Pale yellow color. Delicate fruity note, moderate sweetness, delicate and pleasant flavor, not too hot. Saturday, August 13, 2016
fiulijn	2.7 Campbell's Gold Melomel Red Currant Dry Bottle at the meadery Pale yellow color. Mild honey and fruit aroma. Dry mouthfeel, the alcohol is a bit burning, there is not much depth. Simple. Saturday, August 13, 2016
fiulijn	3 Campbell's Gold Melomel Apple Dry Bottle at the meadery Pale yellow color. Dry and lean, simple Mead, a bit boozy, but with some fruity esters. Not bad, but too hot. Saturday, August 13, 2016
fiulijn	3 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Dry Lavender Bottle at the meadery Light blond color. Deep aroma. Rather dry mouthfeel, not weak, a lot of alcohol, spicy, not necessarily the lavender is noticeable. Interesting, a bit too boozy though. Saturday, August 13, 2016
Oakes	3.4 Campbell's Gold Metheglin Dry Lavender Quite pale. Big lavender nose. Dry, but complex, floral, fruity, and with a bit of a barrel dryness. Sunday, July 17, 2016
Oakes	3.6 Campbell's Gold Pyment Poet's Passion Gold. Sticky honey nose. Honey. Tart grapey notes. Balanced, less vinous than expected. Sunday, July 17, 2016
Oakes	3.6 Campbell's Gold Melomel Black Currant Dry Has a light amber colour. Has a mellow currant taste, sweet honeyed character, and a little bit of dryness in the finish. Almost an oakiness. Sunday, July 17, 2016