Dansk Mjød Klapøjster Mjød

Brewed by Dansk Mjød
Style: Mead
Brande, Denmark

bottle shared by thedm and hotstuff - Pours a nice golden color and it’s really got some legs when swirled. The flavor is sweet honey and is rather harsh on the alcohol. Medium bodied and certainly warming, it’s fairly enjoyable but takes some getting use to.

Name: Klapojster Mjod
Date: 01/26/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

hazy golden, sweet spicy hot honey aroma with a fusel alcohol edge, sticky honey flavor with a lot of fumey alcohol, the flavor is good but the alcohol is too distracting
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Date: 04/04/2007
Score: 2.6 to 2.7

still a lot of alcohol in the aroma but the honey is coming through a bit better, thick honey flavor, although the alcohol has tempered a bit it is still a dominant character, eventually the alcohol subsides enough to allow the honey to gain equal footing
-------- /> Name: Klapojster Mjod
Date: 07/17/2007
Mode: bottle
Score: 2.7 to 3.0

hazy dark gold, nice legs, hot honey aroma with a light spicyness from the alcohol, thick sticky body, lots of great honey flavor still obscured by the alcohol but might be tempered by the six months since the bottle was opened

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 9/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *4

Glass from the bottle at Sunset Grill on 8/13/07, alongside the Viking Blod, South African Chile and Apis Jadwiga
Deep burnished-copper, still, of course, with huge, viscous legs and a medium-high to high clarity.
Powerful, sweet, port-sherry nose, with raisins, rich honey, almonds, nuts, marzipan, caramel and light prunes all combining to give the typical strong, thick mead experience. There really isn’t even much use in splitting my comments in to aroma and flavor as it’s, more or less, one and the same. It overpowers you with sweetness, not even all that complex, and then just finishes you off with alcohol. I can handle not that complex, but when the alcohol is just rampant, fairly raw and sharp, I just don’t see the point and fail to see how there can be much enjoyment garnered. Compared to this, Apis Jadwiga is a kolsch! I will say it dosent help that my preference tends for dry things, as this is about as sweet a drink as I can imagine. But I can appreciate a port or sherry, I think it’s just the overwhelmingly raisiny-sugary simplicity of this one, with the noxious alcohol, that really kills the experience for me. Syrupy, thick, viscous mouthfeel.

Pours a golden color with no head. Aroma is sweet honey. Flavor is honey with a noticeable alcohol burn.

Clear dark gold, still of course. Smells floral, honey suckle, pinetar, almost diesly. Medium weight on the palate at first with a heavy feeling on the finish. You definitely feel the warming alcohol on this one. Immediately sweet but sourness and a slight bitterness blance it out. Flavors are honey, clove, gasoline?, and violets. It’s alcohol content is not well integrated into the beverage and makes it very unbalanced and unpleasant to drink.

Clear, deep golden pour. The nose is intensely alcoholic and vividly spiced. Notes of dried out, clumped up honey lead, chased by a strange spice blend containing hefty wet caraway, apple, grassy fields, flowers, vanilla, smoke and white pepper. the flavor is entirely different, with semi-sweet honey, more caraway that lends to a sharp bitterness, acidic tropical fruitnotes and just hints of floral and aniseed tastes. Finishes very warm with huge ethanol bursts, lingering juniper and caraway notes and a fading floral presence that gives way to stark dryness and an ultimately squeegied-clean feel. The mouthfeel is very full, syrupy and incredibly smooth but far too warming, obviously due to the raging high alcohol content. Despite this, it’s a pleasure to sample and a truly unique honey-based beverage.

This poured a golden color. The aroma is honey, vinegar, and lemons. Some honey, apples, and lemons showing through in the flavor. This was quite sweet and syrupy and probably needs some age on it. Overall good in VERY small doses.

Drank out of a Viking horn in Plan B :) Spicy and flowery aroma. Taste of flowers, honey. Quite alcoholic, even for a Danish mead.