Atlantic Brother Adams Honey Bragget Ale

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Mead
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

Pours honey brown with an amber hue. There wasn’t any head really. Smells of honey with hints of alcohol. It is very smooth and warming. The flavor is sweet malt due to the honey. You can also taste the strength of the drink. It is very easy to drink and a nice late night snack so to speak.

2001 Vintage: Poured a clear dark amber color with a golden hue and minimal off-white head. Nice legs up the glass. Very sweet malt with some "aged" notes. Just the right amount of honey shows itself. Light alcohol notes. the flavor was sweet and malty with honey mixed in. Light bitterness on the finish. Very warming. Nicely balanced with the malt, honey and alcohol. Nice to drink.

Bottle vintage 2004.tasted with m_heine... Aroma:alcohol and sugars mixed with honey... Appearance:light hazy-orange,small head... Flavor:alcohol,light caramel,honey...

Robe cuivrée claire surmontée d’une mousse blanche mince. Arômes d’alcool, de malt et de caramel. Saveurs de miel, de caramel, de malt et d’alcool.

Bottle. 2001 vintage. Red amber colour with a frothy off-white head. Berry, caramel, yeast, and honey aroma. Fruity and caramel flavour with citrus and maple. Full bodied, syrupy but smooth. Tasty, and probably the best mead I’ve sampled besides Jadwiga.

2001 Vintage Bottle. Dark caramel amber body with a thin white head. Beautiful toffee and honey aroma, with notes of burnt caramel, that gives way to a second wave of mild alcohol. Sweet toffee flavour with a malt middle. Quite sweet overall but dry alcoholic finish balances it out a bit. Medium to full palate. Not something you would drink a lot of but delicious.

Bottle, from Downeast Bev. Co. pours an extreamly transparent orangy copper color, nothing floating at all. small to no head. didn’t get much out of the head, maybe a little scent of clove honey and the faintest bit of alcohol. taste is outstanding. I could not believe that this is 11.8%abv. starts sweet, then finnish crisp and clean. honey, vanilla, toffee, some nuttyness. super easy to drink, maybe too easy. you can easily pound this, but you should sip unless you want to hurt yourself. makes you warm inside. awsome drink, very enjoyable. gonna have to get more of this.

An outstanding example of bragget or "bragott", which is a cross between an ale and a mead, being brewed with 2,000 lbs of honey per batch. I’ve enjoyed this one on draught at the brewery, and bottled vintages, and it is an amazingly good beer. Brother Adams pours to a beautiful, deep golden color, with a slight white head that fades, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with lots of big aromas of sweet malt, toffee, honey, and peppery alcohol. The body is slick and full on the tongue, with big flavors of sweet malt, caramel, toffee, and honey sweetness. Brother Adams finishes with more big sweet malt flavors up front, then ends with a soothing, warming, burn that lingers. This beer is a bit cloying young, but a few years of age rounds out the malt sweetness, and some more of the peppery alcohol notes cut the sweetness. At 11% abv it is a heady brew, and one to sip and savor. Enjoy this one as a winter warmer with a good book or movie, or as a night cap.