3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 fiulijn (16659) - Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - JUN 1, 2015
Bottle from Beer Junction, Seattle; synthetic cork Hazy dark blond color. Its a sweet but not syrupy mead, with a profile that includes vanilla, oak, wood, also floral; low acidity though which means not enough balance; a bit astringent in the end. Quite good.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 Ferris (8510) - Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA - MAY 28, 2015
Bottle - Honey and some herbal notes. Clear gold. Light honey sweetness and some light rind and woody notes. A bit overwhelming in the nose but nice flavours.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 mcberko (10105) - Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - MAY 28, 2015
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden - no head. Nose is quite spicy for a mead, with grassy honey and oak tannins. Flavour brings out lots of moderately sweet honey, light spice, and dry oak tannins to dry this out. Really nicely constructed and balanced. Excellent.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 BMan1113VR (7905) - Los Angeles, California, USA - JUL 23, 2014
Bottle (no sediment visible). Pours with a crystal clear yellow hue. Still. Moderate legs, and separation. Aromas are of waxy honey, floral, oak lactones and vanillins, some spicy dill, warming honey comb, tannin, caramelized, floral/oak spice, alcohol. Flavors are medium sweet, oaky, well balanced tannin and acidity, almost a light raw cinnamon bark flavor. Nice tannin, medium warmth. Medium-high sweetness, fuller bodied. Not bad.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 pantanap (3366) - Chicago, Illinois, USA - JUN 10, 2013
750ml bottle purchased at the source... Pours with an extreme clarity a golden light cider hue with running legs up and down the glass. Still of course... Aroma semi-sweet or mostly sweet smooth honey forwardness with a touch of heat in the backend. ... Flavors are more of the same with a mild peppery oak feel to it. A touch of gardenia flower in the backend. Somewhat fuller bodied. Big full flavor. Warmth coming through late. Pretty nice actually as a late sipper.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 savnac (2391) - Anchorage, Alaska, USA - DEC 27, 2012
Bottle pour from the meadery. Clear golden yellow and no head, still mead. Aroma of floral honey, oak, vanilla and alcohol. Flavor is lightly sweet honey balanced out with warming alcohol and oak, lightly acidic. Medium body with some light residual sugar. Very nice mead, lots of honey and oak character in this one.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20 jredmond (6525) - New York, New York, USA - JUL 27, 2012
Bottle sample at THE FESTIVAL with Andrew, and one of the very first samples of the day if I remember correctly. Pours a clear golden yellow body. Aroma is apple pie, honey, and other fruit. Mouthfeel Is medium and well balanced with notes of apple, honey, dry fruit, light cinnamon. Awesome mead.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 PetetheMonk (6) - USA - DEC 11, 2007 does not count
Aromas of rich honey, pineapple and shortbread. The nose on this mead is very similar to a popular mead from Weston, Missouri. Perhaps they use the same yeast.
The mead presents a pale straw color, good clarity, heavy legs, highly reflective meniscus, and a solid two-ring variance; all attesting to this meads solid structure.
This is not a complicated, complex mead, thank you very much. This is a traditional mead as it should be. Prominent honey, flinty mineral after-taste with a very long finish. Semi-sweet but not cloying, clean, and layered flavors. The meads naturally occurring acidity provides a drier perception on the palette and enhances the balance.
After evaluating this mead on its own merits, we finished the bottle with Thai food. The mead paired really well with fresh rolls, hot and sour soup, and Thai green papaya salad.
This is a fun and versatile mead that is equally at home with Thai food as it is with Crème Brule.
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