Empire Royal Mead

Brewed by Empire Winery & Distillery (T&W Brand)
Style: Mead
New Port Richey, Florida USA

Bottled. An amber beer with a slight hazy. The aroam is sweet with strong notes of flowers and light notes of honey. The flavor is very sweet with notes of honey. Nice one. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

Wow, don’t let that smell fool you, it is delicious. It smells like old feet, but the flavor is an instant assault of cool honey and berries. The longer you hold it in your mouth, you can focus more on the individual ingredients, making it a complex Rubik’s Cube of flavor. It’s think and heavy, you don’t need more than one glass

Warm golden, clear and flat. Bright, pure, sweet nose with loads of honey character but also figs, grapes, and dates. Inviting aroma. Viscous, thick, and slippery. Apple and honey to the max in the flavors. Simple, sweet but nice, juicy and eminantly sippable.

Golden. Still, with a slight haze. Rich sugary orangey nose with a slightly floral accent. Very honeyish. Slight acidity and orange zest accent. Soft, but kind of cloying.

Deep amber in color. Aroma is a strong molasses with a tartness to it. Alcohol is apparent. Taste is very sweet and syrupy. Thick mouthfeel. Mostly molasses and honey with a hint of green apples. I like it, but prefer Kasztelanski.

Bottle, thanks to Papsoe for this one. Nose is pungent, alcohol, honey, kerosene, garage. Mouth is silky, sugary, some spirit and calvados. Quite good, really.

(Bottled). A bit murky red brown color, no head. Aroma of honey and fresh wood. Quite sweet and syrupy. Honey flavored with notes of clover. Not alcoholic at all. To sample only in small doses.

Bottled (Thanks Papsoe). Amber colour, non head. Aroma is honey, some mild alcohol and mildly spicy. Flavour is honey, spices, alcohol. A nicely balanced mead. Bigtime sweet wooden aftertaste.