Earle Estates Traditional Honey Mead

Brewed by Earle Estates Meadery
Style: Mead
Penn Yan, New York USA

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow. Wonderful floral aroma plus obviously honey. Flavor is honey (duh!). Not overly sweet. Finely crafted - reaaly excellent. Earle Estates also makes several meads combined with fruit. Their Pear Mead is my all-time favorite, and their Cherry Mead is great paired with dark chocolate.

Aroma of honey and grapes. Pale yellow color, with no carbonation, as expected. Light feel. Flavor is of honey and white wine. I still think mead is closer to a wine than a beer, but I love it nonetheless. This is a good one, and I’m lucky to have this meadery relatively nearby. This mead is not as sweet as I’ve experienced with other meads - it is just a touch on the dry side. This stuff is great if you like meads.

This was the mead I sampled at Earle Estates that was 100% mead with no wine mixed with it. It was nice with a subtle sweetness in its honey flavor and a fresh but not intrusive sweet aroma. The sweetness seems subdued compared to what I had down the highway but the balance is good.

At the meadery: Love this place. A decent mead., but my least favorite of the three. Very sweet.

This is the first mead I have ever tried in my life so I chose a traditional mead, more true to the style. Served slightly chilled in a white wine glass. Pours a hazy, pale white wine appearance with a slight greenish hue. Really nice, slow syrup-like legs coating the glass. Aroma is honey, grapes(white-wine), alcohol, flowers, light mint and some unpleasant harsh, almost eyewatering scents of something! I couldn’t quite figure it out. Flavor is sweet honey and grapes again with some apple. Somewhat cloying with some tangy funkyness on the tongue. Medium bodied. Dry, sweet alcohol finish. Very similar to a nice riesling(sweetness factor) but this mead has so much more going than that. I would like to think this was a good introduction into the world of meads, but there is obviously better out there.

Courtesy dsnowden. Pours just the lightest light yellow color. Somewhat syrupy looking. Minty aroma. The honey was there with some frutiness. The taste was very sweet. Alot of apple and honey in the flavor. Also got a little bready flavors to it in the finish. The apple really lingers in the finish also with some minty mouthwash flavors too. Drinkabe, but flawed.

750ml - It’s the palate that really makes the product here. There is no real bouquet, just a vague waxiness. Flavors come and go with an overall honey (big surprise) pleasantness. I like this.

Extremely light and almost nondescript golden pour with a light moss green tint, really close to a neutral non-coloration scheme. Fat, evenly spaced legs droop down forming archways like those seen in a typical capital building. Floral and raw, unrefined honey leads in the aroma. Caustic alcohol follows, a chemical infiltration similar to chlorine tablets. Lily, cactus and likewise floral notes really provide an earthy/perfumed substantial component, whether fo rgood or bad I’m unsure. Absent are any intrusive alcoholic or chemical notes in the flavor. Sweetness is medium and wandering. Honey is just (over)loaded with floral notes, hints of earth and lavender-esque perfumes. Actually quite tasty though completely unorthodox and startling. Light herbal mint precedes the conclusion of each sip and wanders into the finish. The conclusion of each sip is lightly drying and lightly astringent, soft honey lingering. The mouthfeel is lively for such a flat beverage style. Light spiciness intermingles with honey sweetnes and provides a sense of balance. Not bad, certainly forgettable. A unique outlook is this meadery’s strong suit, but not a saving grace with most bottled examples of styles provided.